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> Summer Camps:
How Times Change

unnatural holes have healed.
never quite understood. For
I never traveled much as a kid.
many years my wife and I paid
Some
of my wealthy friends did, vaca-
large sums of money so that our
tioning
each summer ar their second
dau o gh ter could attend a summer
homes "in the mountains"
camp where, for eight
or
"at the shore," while my
weeks, she lived in a three-
July
thrill consisted of
sided wooden hut, with no
going
"to the hydrant" for
water, no electricity, directly
a
cool
splash.
downwind from the latrine.
I did attend summer
She could have enjoyed
camps, just not particularly
the same ambiance just by
upscale. A YMCA camp at
hanging out in her brother's
$18 per week, and a no-frills
bedroom.
Boy Scout camp, similarly
I know that asserting
priced, while those same
individuality is one of the
rich friends packed off to
goals
of children going
RABBI BOB ALPER fancy places in Maine and
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away. Both of our kids
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names like Camp Apache or
ly. At age 15, Zack
Camp Mohawk, or ersatz
embarked by bus on the
Indian names like Camp Irvingfeather.
first leg of a teen bike trip. Six hours
In his book Tough. Jews, author Rich
and 200 miles from home, a counselor
Cohen writes of our co-religionists
called to report that at a highway rest
attending
places like Kawanga and
stop our firstborn pierced his ear and
Ojibwah. "Looking over the names of
inserted an earring.
these camps, which advertised each
Not to be outshined by her older
Sunday in the Chicago Tribune, my
sibling, Jessie returned from a high
father would shake his head and sa ■ ,,,
school semester in Jerusalem with a
`You think Indians send Their kids to
decent knowledge of Hebrew, a love of
Camp Goldberg?'"
Israel and a ring in her nose.
But it goes the other way, too. In
Now they're both in their mid-20s
the `60s, our Lehigh University Glee
and, I'm relieved to report, all those
Club would spend a few days in
intensive rehearsal at a Pocono
Rabbi Bob Alper is a stand-up comic
Mountains resort just before fall class-
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es began. A year after I graduated, I
returned to campus and had lunch
with an old friend, a glee club mem-
ber and New Jersey Presbyterian.
He told me that there had been a
change. The resort could no longer
accommodate the club, so the follow-
ing year they'd be going to a summer
camp, also in the Poconos. It had an
Indian name, he explained.
"Camp Akiba."

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