by urjeisnercamp | Aug 5, 2016 | Featured
We often meet on the Quad to engage and learn about different Jewish topics, congregating under the shade of the trees that border the lawn. In the past, we used to sing, “L – Limud – We do it on the Quad.” Not anymore!! We are full of surprise destinations and...
by jared | Aug 2, 2016 | Featured
Rabbi David Widzer, a member of the Eisner Camp faculty, shares the importance of camp to his congregation: When a student at Temple Beth El becomes Bar or Bat Mitzvah, on Shabbat morning when we take the Torah from the Ark, we call forward the student’s parents,...
by jared | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured
The first week of second session has come and gone – what have our units been up to since Monday’s Opening Day? K’tanim K’tanim session 3 is off to a roaring start! After meeting our new friends on Opening Day, we had a week full of exciting...
by jared | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured
by Rabbi Herman Blumberg, alum What would groups of Eisner campers, ages seven to thirteen, want to talk about with a few elderly visitors who attended the camp before their parents were born? The sessions on this lovely Berkshire summer Sunday morning were billed as...
by urjeisnercamp | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured, Uncategorized
Did you know that 48 million people in the United States are food insecure? That means they have trouble affording enough food to feed themselves on a regular basis. That is more people than the entire population of Canada. 13 million of these people are children. Our...
by jared | Jul 19, 2016 | Featured
by Samantha “Twiggy” S., Olim camper Last week, I visited a food pantry in the basement of a church in Great Barrington called The People’s Pantry. I went with four other Olim campers and our Associate Director, Laura Gurvis. I had never been to a...
