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Big Dreams for Camp Continue – From Linda to Gary
Camp has always taught me to find gratitude in difficult moments. We are in one right now of course, because we should be spending this moment together, at camp. We
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A Camper’s Perspective – by Ellie and Megan
Knowing that I am not able to go to camp this summer has not been easy. Thinking about what could have been another amazing year of Jacobs Magic still sometimes
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One of the Greatest Joys of My Life
I know that we are all heartbroken that we couldn’t be physically together – and at home – in Utica for Gary Lazarus’s installation, but one of the few benefits
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How Camp has Affected My View on Social Justice
Though we are not at Jacobs Camp right now, that doesn’t mean the magic can’t be with us. It’s sad to wake up every day and wonder what we would
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What HSJ365 Has Given Our Family
Over the last thirteen weeks, we’ve all dealt with our fair share of disappointments, cancellations, and altered plans. As schools (and our world as we knew it) started shutting down
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Where We Are Now
2020 has been a crazy year so far from the fires in Australia to COVID-19 to the recent protests for racial equality and justice. Like most people, I was disappointed
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Timeless Magic
The shock has subsided. We live with the reality that there will be no Jacobs Magic this summer, at least not the way it has been experienced for the past
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Anna’s Shabbat Update – June 5, 2020
Shabbat Shalom, Jacobs Camp! As much as you have all taught me about gratitude – I can’t help but be sad since June 7th would have been our Session 1
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This is Not Goodbye, But L’hitraot
Anyone who has been at Jacobs Camp during a summer rainstorm knows that smell. First, you feel the air change, the temperature drop, and the clouds turning grey over head.
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Change is Scary, but Luckily We Don’t Have to Go Through It Alone
“So that goes to show you, as much time as we spent scouting and preparing and planning…the game never went exactly as we thought it would. It just never does”
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