Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward 2 Orthodox summer camps cancel
(JTA) — Two Orthodox overnight camps have canceled their 2020 summers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They appear to be the first two of that denomination to do so. Camp Morasha in Pennsylvania, a Modern Orthodox camp, announced in an email Wednesday that it had come to the decision following “months of deliberation, alternative planning,…
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Fast Forward The first Jewish camp that says it’s opening inspired cult hit ‘Wet Hot American Summer’
(JTA) — Here’s a story that would have been unremarkable until just a few months ago: A Jewish camp is planning to open this summer. Camp Modin in Maine has announced that it will open July 9 — two weeks later than originally planned — despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And it has set out…
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Fast Forward Conservative youth group USY cancels summer travel programs
(JTA) — The Conservative Jewish youth group United Synagogue Youth is canceling its summer travel programs for teens, the latest in a string of canceled Jewish summer programs. The announcement, made Thursday, comes as several Conservative Ramah summer camps are set to announce that they are canceling their sessions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some two…
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Fast Forward With regulations tightening, more Jewish camps set to cancel
(JTA) — At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, and as recently as a couple weeks ago, some Jewish camps had hoped they could run for part of the summer. For a growing number of camps, that hope now appears to be vanishing. Two Conservative Ramah camps look increasingly likely to cancel their sessions this…
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Fast Forward ADL: 2019 saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in at least 40 Years
(JTA) — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since at least 1979, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a 12% increase from 2018 and are more than double the 942 incidents recorded just four years earlier, in 2015. It’s the highest number recorded by…
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Fast Forward It’s Official: URJ summer camp is canceled due to COVID
(JTA) — All Reform Jewish summer camps will remain closed for the 2020 summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. Related story: He made the call to cancel summer camp for 10,000 kids. Here’s what he has to say. The landmark decision, made Thursday afternoon, will affect 16 overnight…
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Fast Forward Will there be Jewish camp this summer? Three will decide this week, likely delay.
(JTA) — Thousands of parents and children have been asking the question for months, with increasing anxiety: Will the coronavirus cancel summer camp? Three Jewish overnight camps, from the Conservative Ramah movement, are set to announce their decisions this week. Ramah in Wisconsin, Colorado’s Ramah in the Rockies and Ramah Darom in Georgia are scheduled…
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Fast Forward Half of Jewish groups that applied received government loans
(JTA) — A new survey found that Jewish organizations have received at least $264 million in U.S. government loans under the recently passed stimulus bill. As of now, the federal loans collectively represent the largest infusion of cash into the Jewish organizational world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But even according to conservative…
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