From the Farm to Camp

Landed back at another one of the places that feels like my home-- Eisner Camp. My experiences at OSRUI summer camp in Wisconsin growing up, largely made me the person I am; those experiences were the prime reasons I became a rabbi. And I love that I get to go back to camp each summer.

For the past several summers, we've had the pleasure of coming the same two weeks each summer, with essentially the same set of other faculty and their families each summer. That makes it fun for my whole family to reconnect with this community.

This summer, it's interesting to go from the quite diverse Jewish community at Kayam to the relative homogeneity of this great Reform summer camp. I'll be working with the other rabbis, cantors, and educators here to teach about mitzvot and sacred space to the younger units; I'll be teaching about Israel through film to one of the older units, and teaching about Peah (the Jewish obligation to leave the corners of the field to the poor) to the other unit. It's so great that I'll get to use much of the stuff I learned at Kayam to teach to these 10th graders!

Looking forward to Day 2 at camp tomorrow. I'll be checking in on the 25 or so kids from my congregation who are here as campers...