Camp Guide

CENTER DAY CAMPS...
A CAMP FOR EVERYONE!

• Programming from June 9 to Labor Day

• Caring, trained and experienced staff

• Free transportation
• American Camp Association accredited

It Takes Two

• Red Cross swim lessons

JCC Day Camps and Camp Tamarack
work together on new programs
and a new relationship.

Discounts for early registration!

Contact us at 248.432.5578
or check us out online at www.jccdet.org .

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 West Maple Road • West Bloomfield

Elizabeth Applebaum

Special to the Jewish News

Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community Campus
15110 West Ten Mile Road • Oak Park

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First Session: June 25-July 20 • Second Session: July 21-August 18
Grade 3 Two-week Special: July 2-August 3
Grade 2 Taste of Ramah: August 3-10 or August 3-18

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALL CAMP PROGRAMS CONTACT:

Camp Ramah in Canada

491 Lawrence Ave. West, Suite 400, Toronto, ON M5M 1C7

Tel: (416)789-2193 • Fax: (416)789-3970

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and take no prisoners.

Latkes And Learning

or decades, Camp Tamarack
Forest Levy is a native of Galveston,
operated alone.
Texas.
For decades, the Jewish
She often found herself the "Jewish
Community Center day camps oper-
ambassador" at school, where she
ated alone.
was one of only a handful of Jewish
And now, the two sister camps have
students. Chanukah meant bringing a
found each other and are creating
menorah and Mom making latkes for
new programs and shared activities
everyone and telling the story about
that emphasize not one facility or the
the miracle of the oil. She attended a
other, but the benefits
of Jewish camping.
Two Jewish camps,
one Jewish communi-
ty. Wouldn't that mean
competition?
No, says Tamarack
Director Debbie
Landau. "It's about
finding the right camp
for each child."
"We're not saying,
`Do you want to go
here or there?"' adds
Forest Levy, director
of West Bloomfield-
Debbie Landau and Forest Levy
based Center Day
Camps. "What we're
saying is, 'Which kind of camp is best
secular day camp, which she liked, but
for you?'" (Tamarack is a sleep-away
she was always the one who was just a
camp; the JCC offers a variety of day
little different.
camps.)
"There wasn't even a Jewish day
So next summer, in phase one of
camp for me to go to;' she says. "And I
the new cooperation, Levy will begin
had to be confirmed with an age group
taking JCC day campers to Tamarack.
one year ahead of me because there
One group will have a chance to sleep
weren't any other Jewish kids in my
over at Camp Tamarack in Ortonville,
class."
while others can enjoy a trip to the
Then Forest went to a Jewish over-
Tamarack shore, Pioneer Skills and a
night camp out of town, and it was the
weeklong outdoor adventure. Older
cat's pajamas. "Finally:' she says, "I was
campers, meanwhile, will go for an
really part of something. It's that same
overnight as part of their participation feeling when you go to Israel and real-
in Trekkers.
ize that there are so many other Jewish
In short, just about every age group
people and that feels like home."
will be able to get a taste of the new
Forest's experience established a
relationship between Tamarack and
fierce loyalty, not to any specific kind
Center Day Camps.
of camp, but to Jewish camping in
Well, except in basketball. When
general.
it comes to Tamarack counselors vs.
Camp is, in fact, one of the three
Center Day Camps counselors on the
best guarantors — along with a day-
court, forget the sensitive, warm and
fuzzy routine. Then it's get out there
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