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Today is officially the first day of summer! That means that many of us have extra time to enjoy fun outdoor activities. I love being outdoors hiking, backpacking, and tent or hammock camping. This GUCI Nature Exploration series is designed to enhance your outdoor...

Each morning while camp is in session, we gather as a full GUCI community around the Old Pool (literally the former location of GUCI’s pool). We sing two songs and a prayer: Modeh Ani by Jeff Klepper and Dan Freelander, the Sh'ma by Tzvika Pik and L'takein...

Trying to keep a handle on your daily life while stuck at home? Here are some lessons from Zionsville that we can all apply to our lives this summer.

By GUCI alumna Laura Brenner Camp was canceled. I never thought I’d hear those three words used together. None of us ever expected we’d experience this in our lifetime. The news has left the community heartbroken, and understandably so. It’s one thing to have to...

Shabbat Shalom from GUCI! We are thinking about you and wish we could all be together. 

Alright parents, let's talk about camp for a minute. We love it for many reasons:  we know our kids are having fun, they are safe and they are entertained. At GUCI, our kids get to marinade in Judaism, developing and growing spirituality and culturally. Those of us...

How many days in a row can we really go eating straight matzah? Yes there's matzah pizza, matzah brie, matzah you name it. But what about a Matzah Cabin?? Associate Director Rachel Waldorf took on this challenge and created a Matzah Cabin. We challenge YOU to create...

Spending a lot of quality virtual time with friends and family? Same here! Here are some fun photos you can use as virtual backgrounds on your next video call:  

As many of you know, Jeremy Klotz, GUCI's current Director, literally grew up at camp, with his father serving in the role as Director for more than 30 years. Understandably, there are thousands of photos from throughout these years, but Jeremy has hand-selected his...

Jillian Shkolnick is an Assistant Director at GUCI. When I talk about my job, I usually get one of two responses. For anyone that has no history or affiliation with a summer camp, they tend to be confused and ask what I do when camp isn't in session. For anyone that...

Michael Kaplan is an Assistant Director at GUCI as well as a Regional Advisor for NFTY Ohio Valley. I first met Casey in 2003 – I was in my last year of Shoresh and she was in her first year of Gezah (apparently I had a thing for more mature ladies as Casey is a whole...

Jordan is a first session Gezah camper and for one of his classes, was asked to write about something in his past that he would change if he could. If I could change one thing from my past, I would've asked my parents to go to sleep away camp two years earlier. My mom...

Grateful for Being Whole-Hearted, Vulnerable and Finding Self-Love – at GUCI “But what if it’s not good enough?”, I asked myself 2 minutes before our last board meeting. As chair of the GUCI Board of Advisors, it is a goal to ensure there is a short bit of Jewish...

Shalom from Overland Park, Kansas! My name is Ben Walker and I am excited to have recently joined GUCI’s Board of Advisors. What’s the board of advisors? Great question, and one that I had myself when I heard from Katy Shapiro asking whether I would be interested in...

Throughout the summer GUCI is lucky to place host to many guests – faculty, alumni, camp doctors/nurses and artists-in-residence. During Kallah Bet (second session) we had a visit from Alan Goodis, a national touring Jewish musician based in Chicago, who grew up here...