Winterized facilities are available at Eisner during the fall, winter and spring for events as well congregational retreats for adults, families and youth. Visit our Facility Rentals section to learn more.
In addition, Eisner hosts programs throughout the year:
Year-round our camp features the Heller-Wexler Family Camp Seriesthat offers families opportunities to engage in Jewish learning in a fun and relax atmosphere.
Mother Daughter Weekend April 20-22, 2012
URJ Eisner Camp, Great Barrington, MA
arrive Friday 4/20 at 5:00 pm, depart Sunday 4/22 at 11:00 am
For mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and the girls they love in kindergarten through 6th grade.
The “Mother Daughter Weekend” is a unique opportunity for the women in your family to spend some quality time together, celebrating the special bond between mothers and daughters and grandmothers. Experience a spirited Kabbalat Shabbat including dinner, services, song session and Israeli dancing. We’ll be outside by day, playing, hiking through our K’far Teva (nature village), and challenging ourselves on our ropes course. We’ll roll up our sleeves for some crafts and cooking projects and enjoy a few surprises designed especially for mothers and daughters.
Throughout the weekend, there will be some moms-only activities, while counselors from Eisner and Crane Lake Camps will run girls-only activities and provide nighttime “babysitting.”
A packing list, directions, and details for the weekend will be sent to registrants in early April.
The cost of the weekend is $225 per family (one mom and one or two daughters), which includes accommodations, meals, and all program activity supplies. There is an additional fee of $100 for a third daughter or a second adult (grandmother, aunt, etc.).
Questions? Concerns? Email Lauren Chizner, Family Camp Coordinator at lauren.chizner@gmail.com or you can reach her at 516-817-9576.
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.
Past Events:
Father Son Weekend December 2-4, 2011 Celebrate the special bond between dads and their sons. Spend Shabbat at camp outdoors on our fields, on our ropes course and in our K'far Teva program (Nature Village), hiking, cooking outdoors, and building a campfire. We'll have a spirited camp Shabbat evening with Shabbat dinner, services, song session, etc. While most programs will be geared for the family, there will be time for the adults to learn and socialize with one another. This weekend is for fathers, grandfathers, uncles and their boys in kindergarten through 6th grade.
Chagigah Family Weekend (Arts Festival) 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.
New Camper Weekend 2011
The New Camper Weekend has already taken place for 2011. We will announce the date for the Fall 2012 weekend this spring. If you are interested in touring camp during the winter, please give us a call to find out dates and times.
Fall features the URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps New Camper Weekend for children in grades 2-5 interested in experiencing camp for the first time.
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 Lauren Chizner, Family Camp Coordinator, at lauren.chizner@gmail.com or 516-817-9576.
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.
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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.
