by mozer | Aug 25, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
Hot off the presses! Check out our Greene Cricket Press for Summer 2016, created by our Journalism Hagigah campers led by our incredible Journalism Specialist Naomi Grant. We are so excited to get to show you the final product that our campers worked so hard to...
by mozer | Aug 24, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog, Israel, Lifecycle
by Lisa Kaufman For me, this was the summer of L’Dor, V’dor. My daughter, Dani, recently returned from five weeks in Eastern Europe and Israel on Garin Greene’s “L’Dor V’Dor” trip. As you might expect, it was the trip of a lifetime. For our family, Greene Family Camp...
by mozer | Jul 28, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
by Henry Smith, Kohanimer At home we feel that time slows down as we await the start of camp. We get here and time goes by. We enjoy our friends, activities, and the atmosphere even though we may get homesick. Gaga and Hagigah, Chug and Menucha, it’s all good. Two...
by mozer | Jul 19, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog, Social Action, Youth & Family
by Avery Simon Last Thursday night, while most Niviimers were asleep, Cabin D’s beds were empty. Why, you may ask? Because here at camp sometimes amazing opportunities call for a delay in bedtime. At camp, we have incredible faculty members who come and teach our kids...
by mozer | Jul 15, 2016 | From the Blog
My letters home from camp read something like this: “Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is really great. I never knew there were so many Jewish people! Shabbat is pretty. I have a good friend here. Bye!” That wasn’t sent from Greene Family Camp, but from Joseph and Betty Harlam...
by mozer | Jul 14, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, From the Blog
Earlier this summer, the NFTY-TOR regional board and delegates traveled from the great state of Texas to the beautiful URJ Kutz camp in Warwick, New York for NFTY Mechina 2016. At Mechina, the delegations of the nineteen regions of NFTY come together to learn,...
