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Gindling Hilltop Camp is a Jewish summer camp administered by Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Malibu, California in Little Sycamore Canyon between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on a coastal ridge, 750 feet above sea level. The camp serves approximately 120 campers, ages 7–15, and has a staff of about 40.
The Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University is a Jewish retreat located since 1947 in the northeastern Simi Hills, in the city of Simi Valley, California. [1] Formerly known as the Brandeis-Bardin Institute , it is used for nondenominational summer programs for children, teens, and young adults.
The camp's name was changed from Central Jewish Institute Camps to Cejwin Camps in 1933. [5] Cejwin consisted of seven camps, divided by age groups: three for boys (Hadar, Carmel and Aviv), three for girls (Hadas, Carmela and Aviva), and one co-ed (Yonim, the youngest). In the 1970s, Yonim was divided into Junior Hadar and Junior Hadas.
The Woolsey Fire has damaged Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop camp, two Jewish summer camps owned by Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which have been in the hills of Malibu for over 65 years.
Daniel Olson, director of strategic initiatives and research at the National Ramah Commission in New York, says in 1947 when the first Camp Ramah (Jewish summer camps affiliated with the ...
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Camp Ramah (Hebrew: מחנה רמה ) is a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative Movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The camps operate in the United States, Canada, and Israel . All Ramah camps serve kosher food and are Shabbat -observant.
Rabbi Schneerson visited both of these camps in 1956 (before the camp season began), 1957 and 1960 (during the camp season). [4] Since the early 1990s, the Rebbe's visits have formed an important part of the oral history of Camp Gan Israel in Parksville (and the other camps in the network), and are frequently referred to in song and in print.