Tamarack meeting looks at successes, challenges and the future.
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Tamarack Camps draws record crowd to kick off the summer.
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Kaufman Family Staff Lodge gives Camp Maas staff a home of their own.
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Eric Lefkofsky of Groupon, at the third annual "Send a Kid to Tamarack" patron event
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Strongest evidence yet of effect of camping on Jewish identity, adult engagement.
When your child grows up, do you want him or her to feel an emotional attachment to Israel, go to synagogue and donate regularly to Jewish causes? Then start packing a duffel bag, and load it on a bus bound for a Jewish sleep-away camp. A just-released report — the most comprehensive analysis so far of the impact of Jewish camp experiences— offers the strongest evidence yet that a summer of bug juice, fresh air and color war leads to significantly stronger adult Jewish engagement.
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SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - Hundreds of thousands of Jewish camp alumni — and their parents—have long known that those halcyon weeks spent at Jewish summer camp don't just cement lifelong friendships, they strengthen Jewish identity. Now they have it in writing. A new study on the long-term impact of Jewish overnight camp concludes that those who have attended camp are more Jewishly engaged as adults, according to 13 key variables, than those who did not go to camp.
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The search for Tamarack Camps' next Development Associate is underway. To review the job description, please click here.
Tamarack Camps is excited to introduce our new executive director, Steve Engel. Please click here to read Steve's welcoming words.
The search for Tamarack Camps' next Executive Director is underway, led by one of the agency's Past Presidents and Search Committee Chairperson, Brian Kepes. To review the job description, please click here.
- Detroit Jewish News
Jonah Geller, Tamarack Camps’ executive director since 2002, is leaving the agency in the fall. Geller, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’s Berman Award recipient in 2008, has been named CEO of the Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI) — a U.S.-based position.
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2009
- Detroit Jewish News
When Tamarack Camps recently announced fees for next summer's season, the Bloomfield Townshipbase agency demonstrated commitment to fulfilling its mission -- that no child be denied a Jewish camping experience due to financial reasons. At its retreat last month, Tamarack's board approved tuition rates for2010, holding the numbers steady from the previous summer.
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2009
- Detroit Jewish News
In 2002, as the second Palestinian intifada raged in Israel and youth travel to Israel was curtailed, the Detroit Jewish community reached out to a group of Israeli teens living under the constant threat of suicide bombings. Some 325 Israelis campers were offered a no-cost Jewish summer camp experience Tamarack Camps’ Camp Maas in Ortonville.
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2009
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While Tamarack Camps has assisted families in getting
children to camp since its founding as the Fresh Air
Society in 1902, the summer of 2009 set new records
by providing $1.1 million in financial aid to half
of the children going to its summer camps.
For the first time in its history, the Michigan-based
Jewish camping agency expended more than $1 million in
financial aid – an amount greater than any other Jewish
camp in the world – in order to fulfill its mission of
never denying a Jewish child the opportunity to attend
camp because of financial circumstances.
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2009
- Detroit Jewish News
Patron event kicks off camp’s
financial aid program. While Tamarack Camps has
assisted families in sending
children to camp for over
100 years, a few factors have made 2009
unique.
For the first time in its 107-year history,
the Bloomfield Township-based
Jewish camping agency will allocate
more than $1 million in financial aid
in order to fulfill its mission — never
denying a Jewish child the opportunity
to attend camp because of financial circumstances.
2008
- Detroit Jewish News
Tamarack Camps held its first
out-of-state alumni event in
New York City on Nov. 8 and its
second annual Thanksgiving Alumni Bar
night in Southfield on Nov. 29.
The two events were coordinated by
Rachel (Grey) Ellis, Tamarack board member
and alumni committee chairperson,
and Carly Leipsitz, development associate.
2008
- Detroit Jewish News
This is the greatest place on Earth.”
That was the response from
four adults when asked to
describe Tamarack Camps in Ortonville.
Jason Charnas, 31, of West Bloomfield;
Rachel Ruskin, 31, of Birmingham; Carly
Leipsitz, 27, of Farmington Hills; and
Rabbi Jason Miller, 32, of Farmington Hills
once roamed Camp Maas as campers and
counselors. They journeyed on canoe trips,
navigated ropes courses and trekked on
hikes through the wilderness.
2008
- Detroit Jewish News
A sea of blue and white — clothing, face paint and Israeli flags — flooded the Pioneer Skills field at Camp Maas on Aug. 8 in celebration of Israel Day, a day of games, music, food and fun to honor Israel.
2008
- by Jonah Geller • Detroit Jewish News
Kudos to Rabbi Aaron Starr and his colleagues for joining the cause for Jewish camping. I was delighted to see Rabbi Starr focus on the importance of Jewish camping, Jewish continuity and Jewish identity.
We are grateful for the tremendous support the many rabbis of our community provide to help train our staff, consult on a variety of issues, serve on our board of directors and come to camp to enrich our Judaic programs and visit with children and young adults from their congregations.
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2008
- by Lori Higgins • The Detroit Free Press
New hockey rink floors, horse barn and dining hall interior will greet kids heading this summer to an Ortonville camp, thanks to a philanthropic organization's challenge to donors.
It's an exciting development to Brian Langnas, an 11-year-old hockey enthusiast who said it was time for a new rink at Camp Maas.
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2008
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Tamarack Camps was the most successful of several Jewish camps in a recent fundraising challenge.
The challenge, sponsored by the Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy, provides matching grant dollars to enhance Camp Maas, Tamarack's overnight camp in Ortonville.
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