Camp Chi News Today

Are they ready for overnight camp? Have your Chicagoland kid start a new adventure with one of these overnight summer camps.

Good Friday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Conservative teens’ choices for gap-year programs after the halting of Nativ and the election of Annie Sandler as the next president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. We feature an opinion piece by Rabbi Daniel...

About the prompt  We asked each Peer Ambassador to share with us a pivotal moment in their Jewish journey, what being a Peer Ambassador means to them personally, and what value speaks to them. Stay tuned over the next month to hear

Browse the winners of this year's 18 Under 18 contest

When I think about what inclusivity can do for a community, I think about the Keshet Avodah Corps at Camp Chi.

View the entire group of Peer Ambassadors here, who will learn about the Chicago Jewish community and will improve upon communication, networking and relationship building skills.

When the sages, in our double Torah portion of Acharei Mot-Kedoshim this week, addressed the classic Jewish commandment to “Love your fellow as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18), they wondered: How is it possible to require that we can love others as much as we love ourselves? 

The Camp Creating The Inclusive Experience I Never Had It was June 1969. I was an 11-year-old visually impaired girl leaving home for the first time to attend Jewish overnight camp, the same camp my father had attended years earlier. Boarding that train to Wild Rose, Wisconsin, I was consumed with mixed emotions: already a little homesick and anxious but also excited. I was off to camp with friends from my Jewish day school and my community, as well as new friends I was hoping to meet. At that ...

Camp Chi knows camping and Keshet knows inclusion by MICHELLE FRIEDMAN on January 25, 2021 Keshet has been providing inclusive camping for 30 years and shares a strong partnership with JCC Camp Chi. Photo credit: Focal Flame Photography. It was June of 1969. I was an 11½ year old visually impaired girl leaving home for the first time to attend Jewish overnight camp. I boarded the train to Wisconsin consumed with mixed emotions: already a little homesick and anxious, but al...

How suburban Jewish congregations are celebrating Hanukkah this year Northbrook-based Jewish Community Center of Chicago is selling a "Hoppy Hanukkah Brew Box" with eight craft beers. Courtesy of JCC Chicago Rabbi Mendel Shemtov is the co-director of Chabad Jewish Center of Elgin. Events at the Northbrook-based Jewish Community Center of Chicago will include a video presentation of famed National Geographic photographer Udi Goren walking the Israel National Trail. Courtesy o...