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Rabbi Albert Thaler leads a havdalah service at the Queensboro Hill Jewish Center, the synagogue where he worked for 25 years until, in 1980, becoming rabbi of Temple Gates of Prayer, also in Queens, New York.

Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

American Jewish camp directors at a Jewish Agency for Israel seminar.

How US Jewish summer camps are preparing to welcome Israeli staff — many fresh from war

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Keren Shemesh: Spring Camp for Children with Disabilities and evacuees took place despite the war

Spring camp for disabled children charges forward despite Hamas war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Camp Kimama for youth from Re’im

Summer Camps Israel forum provides camp experience for evacuees Forum is planning additional camps

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

North American Jewish camp leaders attend a Youth Development and Well-Being Conference.

Jewish summer camps are meeting this moment - opinion

By JAMIE SIMON

Campers and staff gather around the bonfire at Camp Manitowa, the host site of Camp Indigo Point.

Jewish Agency's emissaries to return to US camps after October 7 trauma

By MICHAEL STARR

A US courtroom

Baltimore rabbi found liable for sexually abusing two children at Jewish summer camp

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Musicians from the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra seen performing next to lit candles in an event at haBima square in memory of the more than 1300 killed by Hamas terrorists, and more than 200 held hostage in Gaza. October 22, 2023.

US Jewish summer camps mourn Israeli alumni killed in Hamas war

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Girls from all over the world come together in Poland for Yael Foundation's summer camp.

Camp brings Jewish youth together in Poland from across the world

By URIEL PEIZER

Jewish Agency Chairman Doron Almog, center, and Director of Summer Shlichut program Gal Atia at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California

The Jewish Agency Summer Shlichut Program

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Dog sitting on the beach near the water

For this Jewish surf camp in Virginia, the beach is their sanctuary

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

Semi-trucks on the side of the road.

When campers’ luggage got stranded, a Ramah alum’s new trucking company stepped in

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

'Gan Israel' camps are a collaborative endeavor by Chabad's rescue center, The Jewish Relief Network Ukraine (JNRU), Mosaic United, and the Diaspora Affairs and the Fight against Antisemitism ministry.

Ukrainian Jewish summer camps provide psychological support

A summer camp in Israel.

Ramah launches first overnight camp in Israel - for Israelis

US SECOND Gentleman Douglas Emhoff speaks at a meeting of special envoys and coordinators on combating antisemitism, in Berlin, earlier this year.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to visit his Jewish summer camp, Cedar Lake

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

Competitors play pickleball on courts set up in the outfield of Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox, during the 2023 Ballpark Series in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., July 14, 2023.

Pickleball, America’s fastest-growing sport, is a hit at Jewish camps and sports tournaments

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

: Ifat Ovadia-Luski with her daughter Shirah (center), Roee Teshuva, Deputy Secretary-General of the Council of Youth Movements in Israel, Danny Pedida, Director of the Northern Region in KKL-JNF's Education Division, and Eli Hafuta, Director of the Upper Galilee-Golan Region in KKL-JNF and others.

Israeli summer camps to shatter records in number of participants

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE WRITER directs an activity at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin

Summer camps: A transformative two-way street for Jewish peoplehood - opinion

By GAL ATIA