Summer camp

With camp canceled because of COVID-19, directors Yakov and Estee Fleischmann set out to accomplish the impossible: Bringing an authentic Camp Stone experience to more than 1,000 campers worldwide.

The complaint was directed at the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island's children's day camp, to which Pelle lives next to.

The original song is about the repeated oppression of the Jewish people throughout history. The rewritten song is a prayer for Donald Trump to win reelection.

But to fill the summer void, almost all the 150 Jewish overnight camps in the US and Canada have offered virtual programming.

On Thursday, the camp plans to hold an “in-person Modin B’nai Mitzvah celebration” in honor of its campers who were unable to celebrate their bar, bat or b’nai mitzvahs with friends this year.

The closing of Gan Israel of Plano, Texas, on Tuesday night serves as a cautionary tale as schools look to reopen this fall.

Hundreds of Orthodox children took to the streets of Brooklyn to protest the ban on sleepaway camps this year.

Open summer camps are dealing with abiding by health regulations in a usually freewheeling atmosphere and dealing with parents clamoring to give their kids something approximating a normal summer.

The status of women, their rights to equal opportunities and equal pay and their need to be protected from violence is not a party or a gender issue. It is a social issue.

"Imagine what they could be learning instead," read the COGAT tweet.