22 | FEBRUARY 4 • 2021 

Aid will boost this summer’s activities 
and scholarships.

Tamarack Gets 
$50,000 Grant 

CAMP GUIDE

T

amarack Camps 
has received a 
$50,000 grant from 
the Donald R. and Esther 
Simon Foundation to pro-
vide support for COVID-19 
related expenses and the 
camp’s scholarship endow-
ment fund. Tamarack CEO 
Lee Trepeck said in a press 
release that the emergency 
funding will help provide 
continued stability for the 
summer of 2021, while 
the endowment support, 
which will be matched 
by the William Davidson 
Foundation, will help 
Tamarack secure its future. 
The Donald R. and Esther 
Simon Foundation was 

founded in 2005 and assists 
projects that address Jewish 
life and identity, cancer 
research and support ser-
vices, the cultural arts and 
social justice issues.
After canceling all sum-
mer 2020 programming due 
to COVID-19, Tamarack is 
planning to create a “bubble” 
at camp this summer with 
campers quarantined by age 
group in “pods” for the first 
two weeks of their session.
Tamarack is planning on 
reduced capacity for both 
campers and staff this year 
and will not be offering its 
annual Agree Outpost Camp, 
Western, Alaska or Israel 
trips. 

DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

Writing Contest for High Schoolers

Cohn-Haddow Center for 
Judaic Studies is hosting its 
sixth annual High School 
Writing Competition. 
 The contest, open to ninth-
12th grade students in Metro 
Detroit, offers a $500 prize 
and $100 prizes for honorable 
mentions for a best origi-
nal work of poetry, prose or 
nonfiction that deals with an 
aspect of Jewish culture and 
Jewish life, past and present.
Among suggested topics 
and themes are: a) Israelis and 
Jews: Do we speak the same 

language? b) Does Judaism 
have a diversity requirement? 
c) What does ‘proud to be a 
Jew’ mean in 2020?
The best two submissions in 
each category will be awarded 
a $500 cash prize, with awards 
of $100 for honorable men-
tions in each category. In addi-
tion, award-winning entries 
will be published online. 
Deadline for submis-
sions is March 1. For 
guidelines and rules, go to 
Judaicstudies.wayne.edu/
writingcompetition. 

