The Camp Koby model of healing
Our campers have suffered loss, but when we cloak their sadness in kindness, we help them tell their stories, on the kids' own terms, which makes them bearable
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Our campers have suffered loss, but when we cloak their sadness in kindness, we help them tell their stories, on the kids' own terms, which makes them bearable
What makes the play work, is that the story is “both highly personal and universal—one family’s loss and the trauma of terror, a story that’s heart-wrenching and inspiring at the same time,” says Yael Valier, creative director of Theater and Theology that mounted the production.
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Apr 13, 2021 Yom Hazikaron tells us that we are part of a community that witnesses and remembers in order to learn and care and build. By Sherri Mandell, JNS For some of us, this is a whole year we don’t want to remember. A year of COVID-19, with many people sick and out of work or in the hospital. It hasn’t been easy. Yet, it’s surprising that there wasn’t more history passed down about a similar plague, the Spanish flu in 1918-1920, which affected a third of the world’s population. Maybe they didn’t want to remember. And, of course, there was a lot less communication then—no ...
Yom Hazikaron tells us that we are part of a community that witnesses and remembers in order to learn and care and build.