Hanukkah….in Summer

By Carly Silver July 8, 2010

After I got home from work today, I pried my hair off my sweat-soaked neck and flopped down on my bed. Flipping on the air conditioning, I turned my computer on and searched for an episode of Friends that I hadn’t seen yet. Knowing there were none, I settled into a re-run, as happily as…

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Jew Camp–wishing I was there… kinda

By David A.M. Wilensky July 8, 2010

The recent rebroadcast of the summer camp episode of This American Life has me thinking this week about Jew Camp, which will be my name for the camp where I spent the five summers prior to this one. Jew Camp is an odd Jewish summer camp because all of the campers–participants, as we called them–are…

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