by mozer | Aug 25, 2017 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog, Youth & Family
Mealtime There’s nothing like getting to eat some of your favorite foods with your bunkmates and counselors! Meals are so lonely when you return home when you’re not sharing them with the entire camp community Floating on Lake Jake There’s nothing...
by mozer | Aug 18, 2017 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog, Youth & Family
The friends you make at NFTY events last. As someone who never attended Greene Family Camp as a camper, I thought it would be hard to make friends at events. I was wrong. My cabinmates at my first event turned into a kind of family in a matter of hours. Everyone at...
by mozer | Aug 11, 2017 | From the Blog, Israel
Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to participate in the URJ Leadership Mission to Israel. This trip was a jam-packed, whirlwind schedule crammed into six days filled by meetings with Israeli and Palestinian Authority politicians, leaders in the Reform...
by mozer | Jul 27, 2017 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously taught that Shabbat is a sanctuary in time: “The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals, the Jewish equivalent of sacred architecture.” Building on the idea that time is sacred, but also recognizing that it is difficult to make the...
by mozer | Jul 19, 2017 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
For two summers, I have served on the faculty of Greene Family Camp during Maccabiah. It’s really just a coincidence that I serve this week, and to be honest, when I was a camper I hated color war. At the camp I attended it was the one day when everything changed. My...
by mozer | Jul 17, 2017 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
Hi! I’m Anna and I am from Tulsa, Oklahoma! I’m 9 years old and I love to write stories! That’s kind of why I’m writing this! I’m in the cabin of Carmiel and my counselors are Katie, Shayna, Angela and Noa! At GFC, you can accomplish so much. The other day, my bunk...
