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Hiking and biking in Israel's Golan Heights for the greater good

The Ramah Bike Ride and Hiking Trip: Five days through the Golan Heights in support of the camp’s Tikvah disabilities inclusion programs.

|ByHOWARD BLAS
RAMAH BIKE RIDERS climbing on the Golan Heights during the recent Ramah Bike Ride and Hiking Trip.
Kids play softball at Camp Ramah in California. The camp will face a significant shortfall if it needs to refund all of its tuition this year.

Jewish summer camps reopening this summer after COVID hiatus

This year, with a blend of vaccinations, testing and government standards, almost every Jewish camp in the country is planning to open again, restoring a quintessential part of summer.

|ByHALEY COHEN
Kids play softball at Camp Ramah in California. The camp will face a significant shortfall if it needs to refund all of its tuition this year.

Ramah camps anticipate shortfall of $27 million, but don’t expect to fold

The network of 10 Conservative Jewish Ramah camps in North America will lose approximately half of their collective annual revenue if they all need to cancel camp and refund tuition.

|ByBEN SALES/JTA
GILA KATZ displays the certificate marking 25 years since she established Camp Ramah Yachad in Ukraine.

Ukranian revival

“After the war, I grew up in what was then called the Soviet Union,” Katz explained. “In our home, we had a bit of Judaism because my mother came from an Orthodox background.”

|ByLIANE GRUNBERG

IfNotNow calls on Ramah to allow anti-occupation speakers to address campers

Ramah is "the camping arm of Conservative Judaism in the United States, which sees more than 11,500 campers every year."

MAY 22, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IFNOTNOW PROTESTERS outside the 2017 AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC