Today's Life
WHEN 12-year-old Josh Eakman entered camp at Ramah Outdoor Adventure at Ramah in the Rockies last month, he expected to be immersed in outdoor and wilderness exploration and skills building that is the new camp’s signature.
Little did the Las Vegas youth know that his four-week camp session would end with a crash course of study for his Bar Mitzvah.
It took place just after dawn Monday, July 12, on a rustic outdoor pavilion with a service that led him along the path of Jewish observance and identity. And it rooted this brand new camp firmly in its devotion to Jewish and personal growth amid the Rocky Mountains.
Ramah in the Rockies’ grand opening will be Sunday, June 13, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the camp site near Deckers, Colo.
Guests will experience a “taste of Ramah” as they participate in camp activities, explore the 360-acre site and celebrate this historic event.
Featured activities include wilderness survival and orienteering, arts and crafts, back-country cooking, low ropes course, mountain biking, and music. Visitors will have the opportunity to plant trees as part of reforestation ef...
IN the roughly four years that the Zionist youth group Bnei Akiva has been active in Colorado, it has impressed many with a strong beginning — a process that one might liken to a tender young plant putting down roots.
Under the leadership of its Denver-based leaders, slichim Hagai and Moriyah Shoham, the regional chapter has amassed a membership of some 60 youths, aged 8-18, many of whom have become active in regional and national Bnei Akiva activities, and a substantial majority of whom made...
The sixth annual JFS executive luncheon and fundraiser, featuring political novelist Christopher Buckley, is Tuesday, May 11, noon, at the Donald R. Seawell Grand Ballroom at the DCPA.
All proceeds from the event will help support local community programs offered through JFS in its four key areas: mental health counseling, senior services, disability and employment services, and family safety net services.
Buckley, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, has been hailed by audiences fo...