Wednesday June 22
Busy first day here in Sugar Grove – kima (wake up) is 7:30 daily, followed by mifkad (when each eidah – division/age group – has a quick morning meeting) and tefilah. Breakfast is followed by shiur (our daily Torah learning, the basis for many camp programs), nikayon (clean up in the bunk house), aruchat eser (snack […]
Tuesday June 21 – Opening Tochnit!!!
Welcome back to Camp Stone everyone!! The staff has been preparing for almost a week and could not be more ready and more excited! The chanichim came off the bus and were met by posters and cheering hadracha – old friends hugged and new friends introduced themselves. This month your children will be learning about […]
Sunday, August 15
Our last Shabbat in Machane was a beauty! It was a spirited, inspiring, fun Shabbat with hours and hours of singing and dancing! By the fourth Shabbat, the chanichim know exactly what to do and when, and so they gave it their all. After some rain on Friday night during dinner, all of Shabbat day […]
Thursday, August 12
The Edah Daled chanichim, after leading the way in Color War earlier this week, and displaying their budding leadership skills throughout the past three weeks, were given a special trip today — whitewater rafting! They left very early this morning, and headed to Ohiopyle State Park in southwest Pennsylvania to ride the rapids of the […]
Wednesday, August 11
Wow — that was an intense two days of Color War we just finished! And the winner is… Team Yerushalmi! Both teams gave it their all, and both teams’ projects, performances, and ruach were amazing. Team Yerushalmi won by a very slim margin. And last night’s final performances and revealing of the final results not […]
Tuesday, August 10
Today was day two of Color War: Bavli vs. Yerushalmi. Shiur this morning focused again on the differences between the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) and the Palestinian Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi). This morning, the chanichim saw how, in part, the Bavli was different because it was edited later, and was thus more heavily edited. The chanichim also […]
Monday, August 9
Something is definitely up around here… There were strange happenings last night in Sugar Grove. At Shekem time a police car pulled into camp, and after a short discussion, pulled away — with Rosh Moshava Shalhevet inside the police cruiser! A few hours later, after the entire Machane engaged in a protest in Indoor World […]
Sunday, August 8
Shavua tov! Machal returned on Friday morning from their week-long adventure in Virginia. They spent five days hiking and paddling along the James River. Against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Machal chanichim and madrichim paddled together, and brought everything they needed for the five days with them in their canoes. Machal was […]
Thursday, August 5
Shalom from beautiful Sugar Grove, PA! The last few days have been absolutely stunning here. Yesterday, the entire Machane returned from the Chutz, and after hiking back into camp, showering, and cleaning themselves up after two nights of sleeping out under the stars, the chanichim went right back to an afternoon full of peulot in […]
Tuesday, August 3
Shalom from day two of the Machane Chutz! The chanichim woke this morning for tefillah in our chutz beit knesset — right in the middle of the main migrash of our chutz site. On a chutz, we divide the camp into 20 groups called plugot (groups). Each plugah has a group of mixed ages and genders […]