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During a staff week survey, counselors and top deck were asked their favorite camp tradition. Over 80% stated an aspect of Shabbat. Camp Shabbat holds the same customs of candle lighting, grape juice, and challah, but here it is so much more. The beauty of a GUCI...

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Garin   Goldman Union Camp is a magical place that pushes kids out of their comfort zones toward being more independent, outgoing, and in-touch with their personal identity. The beauty of it lies in the secret...

Our camp community is united across generations by many blessings: The beautiful sounds and energy of a Shabbat song session; the exuberance and friendly competitionof yom sport; t’fillot (services) created and led by our campers; and bunk nights that brought us...

Dear GUCI Friends and Family: I am writing today to share with you that after a brilliant 37-year career, Susan Dill has decided to retire! Susan, otherwise known as “The Golden Voice of GUCI”, has been an essential part of GUCI’s leadership team since 1978. She has...

By Rabbi Rachel Maimin, Faculty I still remember it as if it were yesterday.It is the end of my first week at Kutz Camp.We have thoroughly cleaned our cabin, Hill 1.We have gotten ourselves ready for Shabbat –20 girls sharing one bathroom,hair dryers and straightening...

By Rabbi Judy Chessin, Faculty Let’s talk minion. OK? Now the question is are we speaking Minion or Minyan? How do you say Hello in Minion? Bello. In Minyan? Shalom Goodbye: Minion Poopaye… Minyan: Shalom Of course we all know the Shema in Minyan, Shema Yisrael Adonai...

By Jeremy Klotz, Camp Director  Shalom GUCI! I write to you today with mixed emotions.  This summer has been a tremendous success; this summer is coming to an end. We have a great deal to celebrate as a community. We celebrate the successful launching of our two...

With less than one week left until pick-up (unfortunately), we’ve come up with a list of questions that you can ask your child/children on the way home from camp. Check out what questions we’d ask and share any that we may have forgotten! What was your favorite memory...

By Rabbi Matthew Kraus, Faculty One score and seventeen years ago, Rabbi Ron Klotz gathered together a group of second year anaf campers eager to return to GUCI the next summer as C.I.T.s (Counselors in Training, now called Machonikim) to tell us about the initiation...

By Noa Kossman and Corinne Levy, Avodah 2015 Our Avodahnikim plunge toilets, run the kitchen, are counselors in our day camp and assist in the office. Our camp would be nothing without them and the program wouldn’t be what it is today if our Avodahnikim didn’t learn...

By Gabi Schneider, Director of Communications The last three days, 9349 Moore Road hasn't been as loud or as filled with campers as the past couple weeks of the session, but that doesn't mean it wasn't filled with ruach! Every unit on camp had the opportunity to go on...

By Tony Satryan,  Senior Counselor and Midgal Man The Migdal, GUCI's 65-foot climbing tower, is one of the most looked forward to events that each cabin experiences over the course of a session. Campers get excited about climbing the Migdal as an individual...

By Shayna Warner, Camper Care Coordinator I was almost 13 years old when the blockbuster film, “Back to the Future” opened in July of 1985. Like so many at the time, we couldn’t even fathom life 30 years down the line. Part of the mystique for me at the time was...

By Rabbi Melinda Mersack, Faculty “These are the journeys of the children of Israel, the Jewish people, as they left slavery in Egypt.”  This is what we just read from the Torah (Numbers 33).  And, yet, what comes next, really aren’t “journeys”, but rather the stops...

By Gabi Schneider, Director of Communications A little love from home never hurt! Campers always wait eagerly during lunch to receive a package slip to pick up a surprise after the meal. I’ve had parents ask me “what do kids like to get in a package?” After gathering...