by jshkolnick | Jun 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
music + shabbat at camp The lights in the Chadar Ochel go out. Candlelight flickers on faces beaded with sweat. The room is still buzzing, perhaps reverberating, with echoes of clapping, stomping, and some sort of scream-singing. But for just a moment, everything is...
by jshkolnick | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
seems like i've been here before... I am one lucky dude. This is my twenty-seventh summer at G.U.C.I. Now, instead of seeing the faces of my best friends at camp, I am now seeing the faces of my best friend’s children at camp. It’s a very good circle. It’s a holy...
by jshkolnick | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
chug presentations Shalom! I’m Rae Dick, a Gezah Counselor and one of the drama specialists for Shoresh! I absolutely love working with both units! Each unit has one hour a day where they pick a choice activity called chug. Chugim switch every two weeks, so campers...
by jshkolnick | Jun 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Staff Bone Marrow Registry!! Tikkun Olam is important at G.U.C.I., and while the campers always take part in some sort of Tikkun Olam project (check back here in a few days to learn more about this year’s program), the staff generally works with the campers toward a...
by jshkolnick | Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
guci 2011!!! Families and communities (the successful ones) do not just happen; they are built, gradually, piece by piece. Nowhere is this truer than at Goldman Union Camp. Every fall when camp comes to an end our community disperses; the members of our family...
