Summer camp

American Jewish summer camps offer Israeli teens a break from pressures at home

770 teens from the Gaza Envelope attended camp this past summer as part of Campers2Gether, a Jewish Agency initiative that began in 2024.

The Jewish Agency partners with North American camps and Jewish federations to provide Israeli teens with a respite from the war.
Muslim women attend Friday prayers at Iqraa Dunmurry Mosque in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 9, 2024.

Shi'ite org. axes UK children's summer camp following radicalization concerns, Iran ties

Camp Wilayah

Islamic combat training camp run by pro-Hezbollah preacher takes place in UK

Participants at the five-day summer camp for youth who experience stuttering.

Israeli researchers unveil program to treat stuttering in children with five-day camp


NY man threatens to shoot up yeshiva summer camp over social distancing

The complaint was directed at the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island's children's day camp, to which Pelle lives next to.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Orthodox music star Shwekey performs pro-Trump song at Jewish summer camp

The original song is about the repeated oppression of the Jewish people throughout history. The rewritten song is a prayer for Donald Trump to win reelection.

POPULAR HASSIDIC singer Yaakov Shwekey

American Jewish summer camps spoiled for choice with virtual engagement

But to fill the summer void, almost all the 150 Jewish overnight camps in the US and Canada have offered virtual programming.

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Jewish camp that opened this summer tests 100% negative for COVID-19

On Thursday, the camp plans to hold an “in-person Modin B’nai Mitzvah celebration” in honor of its campers who were unable to celebrate their bar, bat or b’nai mitzvahs with friends this year.

Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open.

Jewish day camp in Texas closes following COVID-19 outbreak

The closing of Gan Israel of Plano, Texas, on Tuesday night serves as a cautionary tale as schools look to reopen this fall.

A photo of a Camp Gan Israel in Plano activity from a 2018 promotional video.

Cuomo ban on summer camps upheld by judge, ruled constitutional

Hundreds of Orthodox children took to the streets of Brooklyn to protest the ban on sleepaway camps this year.

Campers playing on the water at Camp Modin. The camp is perhaps the first Jewish camp in the country to announce, in detail, how it plans to open.

Parents rush to apply kids to Jewish summer camps open amid coronavirus

Open summer camps are dealing with abiding by health regulations in a usually freewheeling atmosphere and dealing with parents clamoring to give their kids something approximating a normal summer.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Grapevine June 14, 2020: The goose and the gander

The status of women, their rights to equal opportunities and equal pay and their need to be protected from violence is not a party or a gender issue. It is a social issue.

Israel Beytenu party member Oded Forer

COGAT: Hamas summer camp trains kids to 'commit acts of terror'

"Imagine what they could be learning instead," read the COGAT tweet.

Young Palestinians crawl under an obstacle during a military-style exercise at a Hamas summer camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 27, 2017.

When you treat us like just a statistic, you fail Jews of color like me

The question “How many Jews of color are there?” is never a merely academic one.

Campers at Camp Be’chol Lashon, a summer camp for young Jews of color