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By Jeffrey Becker These Four Amazing People are the Unit Heads for your kids for the Summer of 2014 here at GUCI. They are Gavi Ballaban, Nico Satryan, Lauren Cantor, and Danielle Kaye. These Four People have worked so hard to make this summer amazing for your...

By Rabbi Jim Bennett, Congregation Shaare Emeth Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once wrote: “A thought has blown the market place away: there is a song in the wind and joy in the trees. The Sabbath arrives in the world, scattering a song in the silence of the night....

By Jeffrey Becker Wednesday marked the first full day of camp activities.  In the morning we had Roll call, led by our head song leader, Jacob Kraus. Even at the early hour of 8am, it is apparent what constitutes the heart and soul of GUCI… the Ruach of the campers....

June 29th, just a few weeks from now, will mark one year since the tragic day at URJ Goldman Union Camp Institute (GUCI) that forever changed the lives of three of our families, deeply affected our entire camp family, and aroused the caring and compassion of the...

by Jeffrey Becker Yesterday marked the first day of camp here at GUCI! It was a very exciting time. There was a smell of exhilaration and anticipation in the air. The counselors were very excited to finally meet their campers and help move them into their cabins for...

Shalom!  We are Nina Price and Shayna Warner, the Camper Care Coordinators and also mothers of GUCI campers.  Nina will be working Kallah Aleph and will have a son enrolled in Shoresh and a daughter enrolled in K’ton.  Shayna will be working Kallah Bet and will have...

Shalom! My name is Chase Foster, and I am so blessed to be returning to GUCI this summer as your Program Director. Born and raised in Cincinnati, I first set foot at GUCI in 1995 as a Shoresh camper. I spent years as a camper, Avodahnik, Counselor, Migdal Man, and...

Shalom from GUCI, We are your Avodah Unit Heads this summer! Our names are Michael Mintz, Rachel Lyon and Casey Wright. Michael and Rachel are in their fifth year on staff at GUCI and Casey is in her fourth. Michael and Casey are from Cincinnati, Ohio while Rachel is...

I am beyond excited to be at GUCI this summer! This will be my 19th summer on camp and I can’t imagine spending this summer any other way! As the baby of the family, when my mom packed up my older siblings in addition to herself for a summer at camp, I too was...

Shalom! My name is Sam Pollak, and I’m excited to be the Judaic Studies Director at GUCI! This is my second summer in this position, and I’m thrilled to be able to work with our counselors again to help our campers learn and explore Judaism as they grow in their...

With camp just around the corner, we're re-visiting a post from 2013. Enjoy! by Joe Slade Today is the first day of an annual tradition here at Goldman Union Camp—it’s the start of Precamp! Precamp is a week-long process during which we literally and metaphorically...

by Joe Slade This Thursday, May 1, will mark the 39th time that a particular group of dedicated men has assembled at Goldman Union Camp to donate their time towards making camp a better place. In 1975, Bernie Solomon, a camp parent from Temple Congregation Shomer...

by Ari Kalfus Mark: Very few of you are aware of a situation that occurred this summer at Goldman Union Camp Institute. Our senior assistant director, Joe Slade, was suffering from quite a serious illness. He is still not cured, but he is mending, and he is supported...

Asher and Nathan Moskowitz, longtime campers and children of GUCI alumnus Rabbi Michael Moskowitz, will celebrate their b’nai mitzvah next month. The next day, they will support their friend and GUCI family member Ethan Kadish, by leading a 5k fun run/walk titled “I...

by Stacy Walter Katz Bug juice. N’kayon. Anaf project. Mud boy. T’fillot. Announcements. Lover’s Lane. The scent of Prell shampoo. There are still certain words, phrases, sounds and smells that trigger a flood of amazing memories and bring me right back to 9349 Moore...