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The following post was written by a fourth-year counselor at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. *Names have been changed to protect camper privacy. Breira B’Ramah at Ramah Berkshires is a fully [...]

At the end of May, I attended the National Ramah Spring Staff Training Institute at Camp Ramah in New England as a representative of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack. I participated in a specialized [...]

Summer is here—and even for our kids who are attending camps or extended school year programs, this is a season of less structure and can be a time when parents struggle to keep up children’s [...]

I am such a proud mother. My kids are simply fantastic and I love them to the moon and back. They continually surprise and amaze me; every day I learn something new from them. I’m pleased to [...]

One of the best aspects of having Jonathan Mooney offer the keynote to launch a Matan Institute is the way in which he helps us to reframe our thinking about inclusion and what it means to have a [...]

There’s an important blog post making its rounds on the internet. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s called “For All the Parents Whose Kid Won’t Get an Award” and it [...]

Written by Betsy Plevan, Ken Plevan and Bill Plevan Since our son and brother Jeff Plevan died nearly two years ago, we have often reflected on how much his connection to Jewish life meant to him [...]

In 2004, a man named Salman began tutoring his younger cousins. Since he was living in Boston and they were living in New Orleans, Salman decided to upload videos of his tutoring sessions to [...]

Why is the fourth child unable to ask a question at the Seder? I want to approach this question by first telling you a story about what took place on a recent Sunday morning at Beth Shalom, when [...]

We are about to celebrate Pesach. In many of our homes, we have been cooking and cleaning and preparing to read the story of the Exodus from Egypt. We will share stories and memories of seders [...]