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Why to Come to Camp Without Your Friends

January Newsletter 2025January 2024 NewsletterA week at Camp Shalom should be the first thing you schedule when you put together your kids’ summer itinerary. Here’s why: The Camp Shalom experience is screen-free. It is a sad fact of life that almost all of us are addicted to our devices, and there is almost no place…
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Camp Shalom Newsletter – March 2023

Recently I asked Tom, our Executive Director, why we no longer distribute a monthly camp newsletter. He couldn’t remember when or why we stopped sending it. I dug up a folder full of my old “Minute with Ben” newsletter segments and found that my most recent contribution came in August 2017. So yeah, it’s been…
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Being Aware

To maintain our accreditation with the American Camp Association, it is necessary to develop and update a series of procedure manuals. The manuals are used as teaching aids during staff training and teach staff things they will need to know to about teaching bible study, doing dishes, taking an off-site trip and what to do…
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