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our participants grow into 
future leaders — and now, 
with campers and staff 
“home from home,” they 
are “changed for good” and 
driven to further solidify 
the foundation of our 
camp. This is why we have 
launched the CAMPaign 
for Change.
Within the spirit 
of interactive camp 
programming, campers 
and staff learned about 
tzedakah and the value 
of giving back. They built 
their own tzedakah bus 
boxes and have begun 
collecting change for 
collective change. As 
activists, they are giving 
tzedakah themselves 
— and, simultaneously, 
asking friends, family and 
neighbors to help fulfill the 
mission.
I am so grateful to our 
president, Geoff Kretchmer, 
who conceived the idea of 
CAMPaign for Change, and 
our committee members, 

who are implementing its 
vision. And I am beyond 
appreciative to those 
participants who are 
investing in immeasurable 
opportunity. Through the 
generosity of individual 
action, we are collectively 
supporting scholarships 
to help ensure that every 
child, regardless of 
financial ability, can enjoy 
life-changing experiences 
at “The Greatest Place on 
Earth!”
That’s leadership. That’s 
“change for good.”
To learn more about 
supporting our campers 
and staff as they CAMPaign 
for Change or to help 
by making a gift toward 
camper scholarship, please 
visit www.tamarackcamps.
com/change. 

Lee Trepeck is chief executive 

officer at Tamarack Camps. 

This essay first appeared at 

myjewishdetroit.org.

Yiddish Limerick

Sukkot

Undzer sukkah, it is shain
It is zayer zayer klein.
It seats not drei nor fier
 Nisht a fentzter, nisht
 a tier
Oy vay iz mir, it’s going to 
 rain.

Undzer: Our
shain: beautiful
zayer: very
klein: little
drei or fier: three or four
Nisht a fentzter: Not a 
 window
tier: door
Oy vay iz mir: A call of 
 distress

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