Incubating Summer Fun
Julie Wiener Associate Editor From sports to technology and business to ‘wellness,’ Jewish foundation will offer campers new specialty camp experiences for 2014 season. So, your son is too busy with...
View Article'My Life With Autism By Ben Sc., Bunk 20A'
Editor's Note: Ben Schorr is the son of Rabbi Rebecca Schorr, a regular blogger here at the New Normal who writes about Ben, his autism and the highs and challenges of family life on the spectrum. This...
View ArticleNew Camp Program Provides Supports For Boys Who Are Deaf
It was everywhere. Madrid, Paris, New York, Moscow - everyone was watching. I’m talking about the FIFA World Cup, of course. According to statistics, a full 1/9 of the planet watches the proceedings...
View ArticleDispatch From An Inclusion Coordinator: What Brings Me To Camp
Last week, I found myself wearing an oversized camp T-shirt, sitting on the back of a bus headed up to the mountains for a field trip with a bunch of squirmy but excited campers. It was a bit of an...
View ArticleFrom The Bunk: Facilitating Inclusion At Camp
Editor's Note: Thanks to our friends at the Foundation for Jewish Camp for coordinating this series of blogs from camp. More voices to come! Being a counselor in a sleep away camp for the first time is...
View ArticleWho's Your Aaron? Finding A Community of Support
Editor's Note: This blog post originally appeared on the URJ Sci-Tech Blog. Last week I had the good fortune of serving as a part of the pioneer faculty for the URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy. I’m not...
View ArticleLearning To Be Independent
Editor's Note: We are delighted to share this blog, written by one of the participants in Ramah New England's Vocational Education program about her experiences. My name is Gabriella Levi. I am 20...
View ArticleTikvah Family Shabbaton: Not Merely Accommodated, But Accepted and Nurtured
I am filled with the overwhelming feeling of gratifying exhaustion from running Ramah New England’s second Tikvah Family Shabbaton.read more
View ArticleWhat 13-Year-Old Boys At Camp Taught Me About Inclusion
One of my primary responsibilities as the inclusion coordinator at URJ Camp Harlam, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Pennsylvania, is to make sure that campers with a disability (or a “different...
View ArticleIsraeli-American Camp Embraces Autistic Boy, Increases Camper Compassion
No one had ever asked to take a selfie with Yarin, a 19-year-old boy with autism. But when his mother arranged for him to spend one week at the Israeli-American Council’s Machane Kachol Lavan summer...
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