By Richard Keitel Shalom everybody! I wanted to reintroduce myself. My name is Richard Keitel and I am very excited to return to GUCI to be this summer’s project director.  Let me tell you a little something about me: I am a Professor of Theatre at Point Park...

By Ben Diamond Back in 2003, I went away to GUCI for a two-week session, in what I thought would be my only camp experience.  Today, those two weeks have turned into twenty-eight weeks, and I’ve gone from a young camper to a staff member.  When I first came to camp, I...

By Rabbi Mark Covitz Director, URJ Goldman Union Camp Institute. Each April, Mark goes to Israel with other URJ Directors to meet our Israeli staff members and to prepare them for their upcoming adventures in URJ camps. Early morning, perhaps too early, everybody has...

During these cold days of winter, here’s a reminder of the warm magic of GUCI, excerpted from a sermon by Stephen J. Werber, father of Rabbi Lauren Werber, a faculty member from Temple B’nai Abraham in Elyria, Ohio.  A short time ago my wife Joan and I decided to help...

Casey, a long-time camper and staff member, learned about Gift of Life during a presentation at GUCI’s staff training week in 2011. Most of our 2011 staff registered with the Foundation, and Casey’s experience as a bone marrow donor is detailed below. GUCI is so proud...

By Rabbi Mark CovitzDirector, Goldman Union Camp Institute  The tragic events that accompanied the arrival of Hurricane Sandy this past week have been a reminder of both the fragility of human life and the generosity of the human spirit.  Previously unimaginable...

by Rabbi Javier E. Cattapan Reprinted from RJ.org This summer, after a 15-year hiatus, I decided to spend time working at a Jewish camp – GUCI, in this case. I happened to pick the last two weeks in June thinking the weather would cooperate, yet, Indiana’s early...

Dear GUCI Family, Hello! This is quite a bittersweet email for me to write. As some of you know my final official day working at G.U.C.I. is today.  Serving as the Assistant Director the last 4 years has been one of the greatest experiences of my life.  It’s truly...

I’m so excited to be the new Assistant Director at Goldman Union Camp. This was my first summer at GUCI since 2002, and on my first day I was struck by how many people walked up to me and said “welcome home.” After my arrival was announced to the broader GUCI...