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Reva also has been to the
camp in Farmington's Heritage
Park, which Mrs. Berman says
is "a little more outdoorsy. It's
more nature oriented, with
campfires and such."
This summer, Hannah will
try some of this. "We'll send
her to Safety Town," says Mrs.
Berman. "It's offered by differ-
ent school systems to get the
children ready for kinder-
garten." Public officials come
to Safety Town to talk to the
children about many safety
concerns.
"They talk about bicycling,
talking to strangers, neighbor-
hood help ... I think these
things are real important for
them," says Mrs. Berman.
formative years," Mrs.
Berman adds.
Most temples and syna-
gogues also offer day camps
which, says Dottie Levitsky,
director of Adat Shalom's nurs-
ery school and day camp, of-
ten will feature the camp
environment but with a pro-
fessionally trained and li-
censed staff, instead of high
school or college students.
Adat Shalom's day camp, in
addition to a variety of secular
programs, places its emphasis
on Judaism and nature. "We
celebrate Shabbat with challah
and grape juice," says Ms.
Levitsky. "We're also geared
very much to the outdoors.
We plant gardens, help endan-
gered species ... we paint out-
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Reva will try sleepover
camp this summer for the first
time. "We thought 8 was a lit-
tle young. Basically, we were
just hoping they had fun. It's
something to do during the
summer that's different than
school, but still provides a lit-
tle structure.
"Some of the day camps are
reasonable in price, so we
were able to think ahead and
save up for overnight camp.
And it gets the children used
to the camp experience. I
think it is important for their
doors, have sprinklers and a
pond with ducks and geese.
There's a lot of wildlife on the
grounds.
"Nature is, after all, another
way of discovering God," she
adds.
But the camp has all the ac-
tivities and special programs
that would be found at other
day camps. "We have Winter
Wonderland, when [pup-
peteer] Maureen Schiffrnan
brings in penguin puppets;
there is Storybook Friends, In-
ternational Week ... and Natu-
rally Wonderful, where the
children explore the plants
and animals on our grounds
with a naturalist," says Ms.
Levitsky.
On the softer side of reli-
gion-influenced day camps
would be those offered by the
Jewish Community Center,
whose Maple-Drake and Jim-
my Prentis Morris campuses
are excited about many new
changes, says Director Stan
Trompeter. "We offer pro-
grams from pre-school up to
high school, on-site and off-
site. There is Star Trax Dance
Camp, a Teen Caravan that
takes a three-day trip to Ohio,
Young Chagall Art Camp —
we're very excited.
"These changes are going to
be unbelievable; this will be a
drastic change to the camping
situation," Mr. Trompeter
says.
Ganeinu Day Camp, in
West Bloomfield, similarly has
regular day camp fare, such as
athletics, says Director Chaya
Bergstein. But everything is
"highlighted by Jewish con-
tent," she explains. Programs
are "based on Jewish values,
customs ... even games may
be based on mitzvahs or holi-
days. [These things] are incor-
porated into daily activities.
We bake challah on Friday af-
ternoons, say blessings ...
"Our program tries to rein-
force Jewish values and ex-
press the opinion that Judaism
is not just Hebrew school, but
a yearlong encompassment of
our life, all seasons.
"Sometimes summer is
more effective. There is a dif-
ferent spirit, more connected.
The children don't have to fo-
cus on school work. In the
summer, [Judaism] becomes
part of having a good
time." ❑