Friday night, 8th of June was the first official Shabbat dinner and service of the summer. This year our Living Judaism representatives Emily Schooler and Zachary Sosna are both working closely with our favorite Sabbath songstress Penny, along with each of the camp leaders and unit leaders. This new approach will allow much more involvement with the individual camps, staff members and campers in planning our services.
Friday night began with Kiddush and a wonderful dinner of roasted turkey, gravy, yams and broccoli. As always, Shabbat dinners finish with a special dessert, this weeks being a very tasty apple crumble. All washed down of with a camp favorite, Grape Bug Juice!
Services consisted of a selection of the “Best Of” songs and introduced this years theme “Blue Star Camps – Forever Home”. Along with traditional service prayers and songs, original thoughts were given by a first time staff member, a returning camper who is now staff, and a long term returning international staff member.
Senior Boy Staff closed the service with a rousing version of Salam that even had our first time International staff dancing in the aisles. If the energy of Friday night is a good indication of how the summer will progress, there is no doubt that it will be the best summer ever and will have everyone knowing that Blue Star Camps will always be “Forever Home”
