Summer camp

“It’s not camp,” said Elyssa Gaffin, director of Young Judaea Sprout Brooklyn, a day camp that’s offering two different virtual “summer experiences” beginning next month.

Reasoning that you can “create a bubble at camp” is at best a flawed idea.

For many children, especially those living outside Stockholm, it is the only time of the year that they are surrounded by other young Jews and learn about their heritage.

A 2013 study found that more than a third of American Jews have attended Jewish overnight camp. In many cases, children attend the same camps as their parents.

Few traditions are as universal to Jewish summer camp as color war, where the camps divide into teams by primary color for a day of athletic (and silly) competitions.

Modin is perhaps the first Jewish camp to tell parents definitively that it will open, and to specifically describe how it will keep campers and counselors safe.

A federal employment discrimination lawsuit charges that the Maine State Police illegally gathered and handled personal data about employees at an international camp for Israeli and Arab teens.

The network of 10 Conservative Jewish Ramah camps in North America will lose approximately half of their collective annual revenue if they all need to cancel camp and refund tuition.

Testing availability is still far from widespread. And the virus is still spreading.

This way, families can have a semblance of the camp experience and stay connected during an abnormal summer.