https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k en-us 2021-12-07 17:19:56 UTC 2021-12-07 19:01:25 UTC hello@padlet.com amoritz5 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934262015 2021-12-07 18:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934262015 amoritz5 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934262828 2021-12-07 18:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934262828 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934319896 The facilities were meager, but we had bunk based communities, and we sang all the time. It was small enough to know many people, but large enough to have a spark and flow. The singing and the people are what remain for me. The facilities never mattered.]]> 2021-12-07 18:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934319896 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934320603 Kol Zimrah - independent minyan. It travelled around, but you could always could on it being heavily populated by enthusiastic lovers of Shabbos and Tefilah. I didn't have much of that in my upbringing with people my age. ]]> 2021-12-07 18:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934320603 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934320758 Full immersion in an intentional jewish community with caring rabbis, jewish counselors, intentional creation of friendships with peers and modeling of vulnerability and deep connection; beautiful outdoor jewish spaces for prayer and activity; singing in hebrew; birkat hamazon, etc. Campers were encouraged to be leaders; to write their own interpretive tefila and lead them; etc.]]> 2021-12-07 18:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934320758 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934321891 Everyone was welcomed
There was respect for all
Many different ways to engage
Communal and individual spaciousness

]]> 2021-12-07 18:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934321891 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934322938 Rabbi Sarna's personality and thinking in addition to the security guard, Sidibe, being very welcoming so always feeling warm just entering.]]> 2021-12-07 18:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934322938 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323007 We had counselors who were focused on us, Clergy who were invested in us... and I had a songleading mentor who spent gobs of time with me... and a camp director who taught me how to do things as an adult/rab student. Everything was a fractal of the larger picture.]]> 2021-12-07 18:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323007 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323037 2021-12-07 18:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323037 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323748 This was the community of my childhood. Secular, yiddish based, political... intergenerational, committed, lovers of Jewish people]]> 2021-12-07 18:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934323748 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934324441 Yes - it became the basis of my NYC friendship circle. Other minyanim and purim seudot and Tu Bishvat celebrations and activists gatherings were spawned of this group that simple became "the hevre." ]]> 2021-12-07 18:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934324441 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934325350 The trustworthiness of the leaders and the participants
The communal engagement was high
Values and experiences aligned

]]> 2021-12-07 18:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934325350 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934325674 Day-to-day showing up for one another (carpools, ingredients, etc.) and regular gatherings for Shabbat, holidays, m'laveh malkah drinks on the porch, etc. It is an organic community that is proactive and responsive the needs of whole families]]> 2021-12-07 18:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934325674 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934326419 Intergenerational relationships especailly in the community theater we did. Deeply impactfully relationship with Jewish artists that made me feel seen in a way that I did not feel seen at home. ]]> 2021-12-07 18:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934326419 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934326512 Was able to find a community of people of shared values amongst people who similarly gravitated toward Rabbi Sarna. ]]> 2021-12-07 18:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934326512 https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934329344 It is an organic community in real time]]> 2021-12-07 19:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/amoritz5/4p26070ev7efny0k/wish/1934329344