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Heller-Wexler Family Camp Series
2010-2011 Dates and Descriptions

Nov 5-7, 2010
Chagigah Family Weekend (Arts Festival)

$400 per family (up to 5 people; $100 for each additional participant)

Celebrate Shabbat with your five senses! Create art, design crafts, sing in harmony, dance Israeli folkdances, and cook traditional Jewish delicacies. Artists, musicians, and dancers will be on hand to awaken your senses and bring you to new artistic heights. Chagigah is for the whole family with children in kindergarten through 6th grade.

Feb 11-13, 2011
Mother Daughter Weekend

$225 per family (up to 3 people; $100 for each additional participant)
Celebrate the special bond between mothers and daughters. Spend Shabbat at camp creating crafts, playing in the snow, singing, dancing and participating in exciting programs designed especially for mothers and daughters. This weekend is for mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and the girls they love in kindergarten through 6th grade.

May 20-22, 2011
Interfaith Family Weekend

$400 per family (up to 5 people; $100 for each additional participant)
Enjoy a fun-filled weekend at camp with other interfaith families who are raising Jewish children. Experience the beauty of Shabbat in a beautiful camp setting and gain new tools and insights to navigate the challenges unique to interfaith families. This retreat is for interfaith families with children in kindergarten through 6th grade.

Accommodations
Will be provided in the Kivie Kaplan Center, Manor House, and winterized bunks. All families will have their own private room and most will have private baths. Children will stay with parents. See pictures of our accommodations.

About Heller-Wexler Family Camp Series

To address the growing challenges and changing face of the modern Jewish family, URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps, through the generosity of Robert and Amy Heller, have created the Heller-Wexler Family Camp Series at Eisner Camp. The camp series series will help shape and frame the Shabbat experience through relevant programs and activities that explore the joys and challenges of family through a Jewish lens. Specially developed experiential learning activities will bring the best of informal education to help you and your family shape your Jewish identity and address its ever changing needs. Each family campwill be guided by talented and specialized facilitators who will lead activities and exercises that will explore unique topics on the weekend’s theme in a fun camp setting. Celebrate being Jewish in a caring community of similar families who will join together for a traditional camp Shabbat in the majestic Berkshire mountains.

For more information, please contact Jonathan Lev at 201-722-0400.

This program is made possible through the generosity of Robert and Amy Heller, who created the Heller-Wexler Family Camp Series at Eisner Camp.

Testimonials

Bernstein Family
Our family had an outstanding weekend retreat at Eisner Camp. There wasn’t a detail missed . This has become a home away from home where there is something for everyone with caring staff who is second to none.

Chess Family
I never went to summer camp, and I have to say that despite all the amazing things I had heard about Eisner Camp, I was still very anxious sending my then 9 year old away for a month. She had the experience of a lifetime and came home counting down the days till “next summer at Eisner.” Now , we all as a family got to experience the wonder, inspiring, spiritual atmosphere of Eisner at the Family Retreat. I only wish I could have been a camper here too!

Federmann Family
A joyous, relaxing, and community focused weekend.

Auerbacher Family
It was great to introduce our children to a sleep away Jewish camp experience. The boys loved the activities, sports, and art projects. We loved having time without the kids to have adult activities and study. The staff was terrific.

Heller Family
Eisner is beautiful even in the snow! This was a fun, educational, and intimate weekend. Well done for kids and adults. We look forward to the next one. Michelle Shapiro-Abraham brought such life to the weekend – a brilliant and creative educator. All the staff was terrific.

Hutter Family
We loved spending time together with our family and with our new family community.

Lichtman Family
I thought I was coming for my kids. I am thankful they let me come. The staff and hospitality are beyond 5 star. The weekend brought out the best in all of us while we had incredible fun.

Sagner Family
I had loved Jewish sleep away camp and wanted my 9yr old to love it as much as I had. I though the weekend would help her understand how much her parents support her decision to go to Crane Lake this coming summer. In fact, the weekend far exceeded our expectations – got us thinking about our Jewish life and connected us to Jewish families with the same values. We will come back.

What did children said:
I enjoyed spending time with my family and making friends with other families. The sports program was a lot of fun especially the idea of working together to help each other.

I loved everything about the weekend.  Thank you everyone that set this up.

It was awesome, I made a good friend.

What a fun weekend it was. I loved playing in the gym.


It was great fun for the kids and the adults.


It was fun playing with all the kids.

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