by From the Crane Lake Blog | Aug 24, 2012 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Education, Friendships, Leadership, Social Action, Summer 2012, URJ Camps Spotlight Topics, URJ Communications Themes
by Rabbi Melissa Buyer. Rabbi Buyer is currently the Director of Lifelong Learning at Temple Israel of New York City. Rabbi Buyer served as a faculty member for URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps in Summer 2012 and is a proud Crane Lake Parent. Everything depends on the...
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 | Feb 8, 2012 | Arts & Culture, Camping and Youth Engagement, Education, Greening Reform Judaism, Israel, Off Season 2011 2012, Social Action, URJ Camps Spotlight Topics, URJ Communications Themes
by Greg Kellner, Senior Assistant Director, URJ Crane Lake Camp During the wintertime, I try to drive up to the Berkshires as much as possible. As an assistant director, you don’t get so much time to enjoy all that the Berkshires has to offer during the summer, so I...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Dec 12, 2011 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Friendships, Greening Reform Judaism, Social Action, URJ Communications Themes, Volunteerism
Written by Greg Kellner, Senior Assistant Director, Crane Lake Camp Over the last few months I have seen my favorite Berkshire ice cream appearing all over the place: Whole Foods, Fairway, Wild By Nature, and other stores. I began to wonder, what’s the secret...
