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guest column
Welcome, Israeli 
Campers!
I

n only a few short 
weeks we will be 
welcoming our first 
group of Israeli campers 
to Metro Detroit after a 
two-summer 
hiatus due to 
COVID. 
The 
campers, 
many of 
whom have 
never left the 
Partnership 
region, let alone the 
country, have been 
attending preparation 
sessions to get them ready 
for the life-changing 
summer that lies ahead. 
While this summer will 
look a bit different than 
past summers, we are 
so excited to be able to 
bring the Israeli campers 
to Tamarack for a true, 
Jewish American summer 
camp experience at the 
Greatest Place on Earth. 
This will be the Israeli 
Camper Program’s 

19th summer since its 
conception in 2002. In 
addition to the Israeli 
campers, we will welcome 
21 TLV (Teen Leadership 
Village) participants to 
camp for second session. 
Their session at camp will 
follow their participation 
on the Sue and Alan 
Kaufman and Family Teen 
Mission, where they will 
travel around Israel with 
American counterparts for 
four weeks. 
These programs are 
two of the Israel and 
Overseas Department’s 
flagship programs, and 
not having them the past 
two summers has been 
devastating, but we are 
all ready to welcome the 
Israeli campers and TLV’s 
to Detroit with open arms 
and open hearts! 

Jaime Bean is associate director of 

Israel and Overseas at the Jewish 

Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. 

This was first published in their 

newsletter.

Israeli campers will soon be coming to Camp Tamarack.

Jaime Bean

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