Herzl Camp’s “D’vrei Missions” in 2010
August 15, 2010 by Herzl Camp Admin, under Summer Updates.
By Mike Neiman
As part of this summer’s training, the Herzl Camp provided D’vrei Missions to the staff during staff meetings. Below is one of those D’vrei Missions, which helps to exemplify the Mission of Herzl Camp. Thanks to Drea Lear and Jamie Diamond who provided this entry for us to use for our Alumni Blog!
Herzl Camp is a welcoming, independent camp where young people become self-reliant, create lasting Jewish friendships, and develop commitment and love for Judaism and Israel. Herzl Camp creates a vibrant Jewish community of future leaders.The self-reliance which we pride ourselves on instilling to campers allows them to be a certain type of person. You know that type of person… “a camp person” There are certain qualities which “camp people” possess as they grow up: independence, self advocacy, interpersonal skills and leadership. These qualities develop over time and are not only helpful at this point in campers’ lives but also helps to foster a certain type of leader as they grow up,go on to college, and become adults. John F. Kennedy Jr. said, “The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.” This quote is especially true for “camp people.” we push our campers to be leaders and dugmaot every day and for me this is a huge part of what camp is about.