Living Well

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Mother
Nature Meets
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Tamarack benefits from
national fellows program.

JAMIE ROSEN

College Intern

I

t is the second period of
the day at Camp Maas
in Ortonville and two
bunks of 9-10-year-old
girls from the Fishman Village
gather around a campfire. Brad
Magid, supervisor of the Teva
(Hebrew for nature) program,
announces that they will be
making caramel. The girls' eyes
light up and a few shout with
excitement; candy is a treat at
camp.
However, their excitement
turns to confusion as he says
they will be eating it off a
stick. The goal of the activity is
to realize that plastic silverware
pollutes the earth and that nat-
ural products can be used for
such everyday items. This cor-
relates with the Judaic belief to
love the earth and take care of
it.
As supervisor, Magid, 20, of
West Bloomfield, revamped
Teva after receiving special
training through a fellowship
Brad Magid explains the Hunter/Hunted game.
program endowed by the
Nathan Cummings
Foundation in New York. He,
lows were placed in Jewish summer
along with 11 others, spent a week in
camps around the country.
May training to be fellows at a new
The fellowship program, which is in
Camp Ramah in Clayton, Ga. The fel-
its second year, is an effort by the
lows focused on incorporating Jewish
Foundation for Jewish Camping to
themes, rituals, values, identity and
strengthen the Jewish camping experi-
culture into environmental studies.
ence nationally. The fellows are paid
Also at the camp were 12 people
$4,500 through the Foundation.
training to incorporate Jewish themes
To find participants, the Foundation
into drama programs. They were fund-
sent grant forms to Jewish camps
ed by Steven Spielberg's Righteous
across the country. Tamarack Camps
was selected, and nominated Magid, a
Persons Foundation.
After the training sessions, the fel-
long-time camper and staff member