by jared | Jul 2, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, Education, Featured, Israel, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
Last summer’s Olim campers (OXV) are traveling through Eastern Europe and Israel this summer with NFTY in Israel. We are lucky to receive Shabbat-o-grams from their group each Shabbat to hear about their adventures! Crane Lake Camp are ya listening,...
by jared | Jul 1, 2016 | Camping and Youth Engagement, Camps & NFTY, Diversity, Featured, Summer 2016, Worship & Spirituality
It’s almost that time of the week! Shabbat is quickly approaching, and we are so grateful to be at camp. Shabbat is a time for reflection, a time for community, a time of joy. It’s amazing to see how we all have come together here at Crane Lake. We are all...
by jared | Jun 30, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, Daily Bubble, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
Read all about daily life in the Crane Lake Bubble! These interviews, stories and photos are all created and produced by the campers. Each day, these slides are projected in the Chadar Ochel (Dining Hall)! Take a peek inside what it is really like at CLC! First...
by jared | Jun 30, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Education, Featured, Greening Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish Living, Summer 2016
Each week at camp we highlight a different value throughout our activities and all over camp. This week’s Jewish Value of the Week is Kavannah, focus or intention. By Rabbi Melissa Buyer, Faculty We spend a lot of our time these days with our heads bowed...
by jared | Jun 30, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, Caring Community, Featured, Friendships, Leadership, Summer 2016
A poem by Darcy Golding, Camper Care Assistant I am here, I can hear the sounds of camp around me. We are here in this place with so many faces old and new surrounding you ten months for two ready for adventures galore. We shall laugh and we shall cry but in this...
by jared | Jun 29, 2016 | Camps & NFTY, Featured, Friendships, New Campers, Summer 2016, Uncategorized
We had a fantastic Opening Day on Monday! In their 2016 staff shirts, our counselors and leadership eagerly awaited the arrival of their campers! As campers and parents arrived car by car, they were welcomed through their health checks and on to their bunks to meet...