by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 28, 2012 | Alumni, Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, College Life, Education, Jewish Arts & Culture, Leadership, Marketing & Communications, Reform Blogs, Reform Jewish Living, RJ Blog, Uncategorized, URJ Communications Themes, Worship, Worship & Spirituality, Youth & Family
by Debby Shriber, Director, Crane Lake Camp There was true excitement in the air on Wednesday morning, as a sea of blue shirted counselors filed into the dining hall for breakfast. The weather was perfect and there were cheers of excitement and even Greg...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 23, 2012 | 20s & 30s, Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, College Life, Education, Leadership, Reform Blogs, RJ Blog, Uncategorized, URJ Communications Themes, Youth & Family
The following post was written as a Shabbat reading during staff orientation by Nick Peacock-Smith, Crane Lake Camp Athletics Director. Nick is a third year staff member, originally from Australia and now living in New York City. Over the course of the spring while I...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 18, 2012 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Off Season 2011 2012
We are just wrapping up our specialist training and we thought we would share with you a video of the setup of our waterfront! It takes a lot to get the lake up and running each summer. Raking the weeds, installing the dock, moving the boats out of storage and our...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 4, 2012 | New Campers
Dear Friends, Summer is just around the corner! We have moved to camp, staff have begun arriving, and we are all busy setting up and starting our pre-camp training. We cannot wait for our Israeli staff to arrive this weekend! On June 3rd, we hosted our annual New...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
The offices were moved up to camp on May 25th. What a process… Each camp fills an entire van to capacity with boxes, files, office supplies, etc. and we make the trek up the NY State Thruway to I-90 and finally after 2.5 hours we are in West Stockbridge, to...