Blog - URJ Crane Lake Camp

Top 9 Camp Meals

on August 20, 2017

Results are in! Read the results of our Camper Meal Survey, then go behind the scenes in the kitchen to watch our kitchen staff in action in this video!

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Power of the Lake

on August 19, 2017

For someone walking on camp for the first time, the lake is beautiful. But for those of us who make Crane Lake our home for two months every summer, it's a lot more than that.

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How To Celebrate A Camp-Style Shabbat

on August 18, 2017

Missing camp and wish you could celebrate Shabbat just like we do in the bubble? Follow these simple steps!

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Where The Wild Things Are

on August 9, 2017

It was a wild rumpus for our second session play, Where the Wild Things Are!

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Olim ’17 Takes Lake George: Trip Day 2017

on August 6, 2017

Second Session Olim Trip Day to Lake George, in New York!

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CLC Through the Eyes of a Nitz

on August 1, 2017

Ever wonder what our campers are thinking as they run around CLC? Watch as our Nitzanim campers roam through CLC from their point of view.

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Knitting for Kindness: The Welcome Blanket Project at CLC

on July 27, 2017

During this unique Kesher course, campers learned both how to knit and stand up for immigrants by participating in the Welcome Blanket Project.

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Celebrating Passover in July!

on July 26, 2017

Passover came early this year for Nitzanim campers. Last Friday, campers met in the Hockey Pavilion ready to celebrate Passover with PJ Our Way, a program from PJ Library that offers exceptional books with Jewish themes for children ages 8 ½ to 11.

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Doing Our Part to Make the World A Better Place: Upper Bonim Tzedakah Fair

on July 25, 2017

Watch our video and read our blog about Upper Bonim's efforts to make the world a better place through their Tzedakah Fair and beyond.

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Second Session Opening Day: With Every Rainstorm Comes a Rainbow

on July 24, 2017

When staff, campers, and families picture Opening Day at a summer camp, they picture bright, sunny fields, roofball games interrupted by box trucks, the opening ceremony in our Outdoor Sanctuary, and a whole lot of balloons. Last session, we had an opening day just like that one, and we have the video to prove it. But Mother Nature had a different plan in mind for Second Session.

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