by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jul 11, 2019 | Diversity, Israel, Values
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by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jul 16, 2018 | College Life, Diversity, Education, Friendships, Leadership, Marketing & Communications, Summer, Uncategorized, URJ Camps Spotlight Topics, Why Camp
Humid air marked a typical day at camp, but today was different. As a 10 year-old with no experience in any organized sport, baseball was the last activity I wanted to participate in. There were so many different tools and rules: “How do you put on a glove? What’s a...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jun 29, 2018 | Disabilities, Diversity, Leadership, Summer
by Shaina Morrel, General Counselor & Jake Rudolph, Director of Digital Media Mental Health is becoming prominent in today’s culture and, unfortunately, is paired with negative stigmas. As a significant number of people suffer from disorders like anxiety and...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Nov 17, 2017 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Diversity
by Tyler, Olim ’17 camper I have been going to Crane Lake Camp for seven summers and for six of these I was in a girls’ bunk. But within the past few years, I went through the process of coming out as transgender from female to male. Every summer I had...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Jul 7, 2017 | Caring Community, Diversity, Leadership
by Rabbi David Freelund, faculty member Think for a moment of the latest piece of news you heard today. Was it about someone acting rudely and outrageously? Was there a mean tweet involved? These are symptoms of what it means to be an American in 2017 as we race to an...
by From the Crane Lake Blog | Feb 6, 2017 | Alumni, Diversity, Education, Social Action, Volunteerism
by Shoshana Bedrosian, former Crane Lake Camper Instead of coming back to camp last summer, Shoshana spent three weeks coaching soccer for underprivileged children in Cambodia and Vietnam through a program called Sports for Social Change. The...