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Jewish summer camps have been evolving for a century − but 2024 is a summer like no other

  • Written by Jonathan Krasner, Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research, Brandeis University
Jewish summer camps have been evolving for a century − but 2024 is a summer like no otherStaff at Camp Massad, whose first location was in New York, pose for a photo in 1941.Camp Massad via Wikimedia Commons

In 1902, 10-year-old Isidore Itzkowitz accepted a scholarship to attend an overnight camp in upstate New York. “Izzy,” an orphan raised by his grandmother in a dingy tenement-house basement, fit the profile of children...

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