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Surprise Lake Camp is a non-profit sleepaway camp located on over 400 acres (1.6 km 2) in North Highlands, New York (approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City). It is the oldest Jewish summer camp in the United States.
Pages in category "Jewish summer camps in New York (state)" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The camp was founded in 1919 by the Central Jewish Institute, an independent Jewish community center in Manhattan, [3] as a two-week vacation home for needy Talmud Torah students. After its second summer, it was expanded into an educational residential camp under the leadership of the Institute's director, Dr. Albert P. Schoolman , a disciple ...
Rabbi Schneerson visited both of these camps in 1956 (before the camp season began), 1957 and 1960 (during the camp season). [4] Since the early 1990s, the Rebbe's visits have formed an important part of the oral history of Camp Gan Israel in Parksville (and the other camps in the network), and are frequently referred to in song and in print.
Eden Village Camp is a co-ed Jewish sleep-away organic farm camp in Putnam Valley, New York.It is a non-profit sustainable-living "farm-to-table" camp founded by Yoni Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer, located on 248 acres (100 ha) touching the Appalachian Trail, 50 miles north of New York City.
Jewish summer camps in New York (state) (19 P) P. ... Camp Kimama; Camp Tel Noar; Camp Yavneh; H. Henry S. Jacobs Camp; I. Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center; J.
Camp Tel Yehudah is the official national teen leadership camp of Young Judaea, a Zionist youth movement in North America. It is located in Barryville, New York , and provides immersive, summer experiences for Jewish teenagers from ages 13–17 (going into high school up until college).
The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a region which was noted for its summer resorts that catered to Jewish vacationers, especially residents of New York City. [1] The resorts, now mostly defunct, were located in the southern foothills of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, bordering the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.