Celebrating Freedom at CLC
Enjoy a few July 4th preview photos and video of a great day at camp! These are just a few videos and photos straight from the action of the day. A more in depth video is coming soon and photos will be available for parents on Bunk 1. View a quick slideshow on Picasa...
Reflections on Our First Shabbat
by Rabbi Devorah Marcus Rabbi Marcus is the Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth El of Great Neck, NY and a faculty member this summer at Crane Lake Camp. After days of packing, arriving, unpacking, name-gaming, group-mixing, swim-testing, program writing, and community...
Opening Day! A Day of Celebration and Creating Strong Community
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 Kellner's mom...
Something to be Thankful for… Summers at CLC
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...
The Waterfront Comes Alive
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...
A Note from the Director: Debby Shriber
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...
The First Week of June! What’s Going on at Camp?
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 unload...
Getting to Know Greg, Our New Senior Assistant Director
So many of our campers and families have had an opportunity to meet Greg Kellner, our new Senior Assistant Director, this year at some of our synagogue visits, reunions or other camp events. We thought you might want to know a bit more about Greg and what he loves to...
Meet Our 2012 Senior Staff!
Sarah Lauing: Director of Jewish Life Hi Crane Lake! I just received my Masters in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. I'm excited to join the Crane Lake family as a Nadiv Educator, a full time position shared between camp and Temple Shaaray...
The Jew I Want To Be
by Susan Klau, Crane Lake Machonik 2012 This post originally appeared on RJ Blog at the following link: http://blogs.rj.org/blog/2012/05/22/the-jew-i-want-to-be/#comment-21365 I believe every person has a passion in life. Whether it’s collecting baseball cards or...