THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Kfar Ivri Gives Campers Hebrew Experience
By REED RUBINSTEIN
Kfar Ivri, the "Hebrew
Village" at the Benard
Maas Recreation Area
(Camp Tamarack), teaches
Hebrew and Jewish tradi-
tions within the framework
of a summer camp. Howard
Cooper, this year's super-
visor, said, "We are seeking
a positive experience for our
one in which they can
WI have fun, and learn
about being Jewish.
"We are teaching our kids
that Judaism is something
positive, something to be
enjoyed. This does not mean
removing ourselves from
society, or doing without the
positive things that society
has to offer: to the contrary,
society should be enjoyed to
its fullest. At Kfar Ivri, we
Cooper and his staff work
go swimming, we have a
very good baseball team. with several different
Yet, we also keep the Sab- themes on Jewish traditions
bath. Our message is that and values over the course
good baseball and keeping of a session, but observance
the Sabbath are not incon- of the Sabbath is the focal
point for the Kfar Ivri coun-
gruous."
Kfar Ivri's formal pro- selors. Both the philosophi-
gramming is directed cal and practical aspects of
toward Jewish educa- Sabbath observance are dis-
tion. The study of He- cussed.
brew is central, and all
Other themes covered by
printed matter within the the Kfar Ivri staff is
village is in that lan- Zionism and the importance
guage. If a camper does of the land of Israel to the
not understand a particu- Jewish people, ecology and
lar word or sentence, he, Tisha b'Av.
must seek out someone
Kfar Ivri is co-sponsored
who does.
Formal Hebrew instruc- by the United Hebrew
tion, on three levels, is pro- Schools and the Fresh Air
vided to all campers for 90 Society. Rabbi Gerald Tel-
minutes each day. The cam- ler, superintendent of the
pers range in age from 10 to UHS, is attempting to ex-
pand Kfar Ivri to two four-
14.
week sessions per sum-
mer. According to Rabbi
Teller, "Kfar reinforces
skills learned in the
classroom, encourages the
use of Hebrew and simply
makes Jewish education
fun."
WZF Director
Cited by Council
NEW YORK — Moshe
Ishon, director of the Torah
education and culture de-
partment of the World
Zionist Organization-
American Section was hon-
ored by the Rabbinical
Council of America recently
for "three years of signific-
ant and distinguished serv-
ice to American Jewry."
We must be doing some-
thing to be happy.
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