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Tuesday July 7- Color War Day 1

DATE: July 8, 2026

Color war is in full swing with team Irgun vs. team Hagana!!!

Kima was bright and early this morning at 7 am. Somehow everyone was op and at ’em fairly quickly. Whereas usually each eidah has mifkad on their own before tefilah, on the Color War days the whole camp meets for mifkad next to the Indoor Beit Knesset. A little achdut (unity) before the day of competition began.

Each team is responsible for decorations and toranut twice during these two days: a lunch and a dinner. The decorations need to be in some way related to the team name or colors. Each team chooses a representative to explain their theme and deliver a short dvar torah.  For breakfast Team Tzevet sets up and cleans up. Their team this year is Team USA. 

The day’s activities included sports and other team competitions, team meetings, team marches before lunch and before dinner, swimming and boating races, a huge camp-wide dodge ball game in Indoor World, and minute-to-win it races as the night tochnit.  Meanwhile the teams had members working all day on the projects and presentations that we will all see tomorrow night. Extra points are given out for funny (team-theme related) memes posted around camp and for any team member who can recite the following to a Rosh Eidah, a Rosh Moshava or a Rosh Beit Midrash: short tefilot like Tefilat haDerech and the brachot of asher yatzar and al haMichya, the 24 books in Tanach, all the parshiot in the Torah, תפילה לשלום המדינה  or לחיילי צה”ל.

Good luck to Team Irgun (green and purple) and Hagana (pink and blue).  We are enjoying the good spirit, the fun nature of the competition and the nachas of watching our 14 year old captains leading their teams towards victory.



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About the Chanukah Raffle

Dear Camp Stone Community,

It is an incredible feeling to reconnect with everyone once again at the beginning of our 2021 camp season.

We are writing to you today, first and foremost, to express tremendous gratitude.

Hakarat HaTov, literally “recognizing the good”, is an important and fundamental principle in our community. We, at Camp Stone, want to express our Hakarat HaTov to everyone receiving this email for your unwavering support, especially this past summer. Whether you provided financial assistance through your donated tuition dollars, participated in Indoor World, or connected with the Camp Stone community in other ways, together we had an incredibly successful, albeit different, summer experience.

There is no substitute for being in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, and this summer, B’ezrat Hashem, we will be back at Camp Stone, in person, in full force.

To achieve that goal, we must continue to ensure the financial success of our home away from home that we all know and love so deeply. The logo on top, featuring the slogan “Stone. Forever.” also features a Ner Tamid, an “eternal flame.” The year 1969, etched into the logo, is the year camp was founded. Symbolically, the overall image represents the idea that Camp Stone began many years ago and must endure forever, always burning brightly, and always an integral part of our collective conscience.

On that note, we are excited to announce that our annual Chanukah Campaign will be a raffle taking place over all 8 nights of Chanukah with prizes for both campers and parents/alumni!!

Please go back to the web page  to purchase raffle tickets and help us achieve 100% participation from our entire camp community!

Looking forward to being in touch with all of you in the near future.

Sincerely,

Yakov & Estee, Co-Directors