With increasing success and popularity each year, these intensive summer camps have become the cultural lifeline for thousands of young FSU Jews. For many youngsters from small peripheral communities, a Jewish Agency Summer Camp is their only organized Jewish educational activity for the entire year. After attending camp, many children are motivated to enroll in Jewish youth clubs during the school year. Veteran campers also become prime candidates for long-term programs in Israel.

For many children, the camps are an entry point into year-round Jewish activities that focus on the issues that were explored during the summer.  The camps also provide the educational staff with the motivation to continue creating innovative programs that lead the youngsters to attend another camp session the following year. 

We at the Jewish Agency are proud to present you with vignettes and snapshots from Summer 2007 at our camps in the FSU.  Please Note: The pictures have been selected to give you a sense of the camp experience; they are not illustrations of the vignettes.

To the Video of the Camps

Week of August 26, 2007

Week of August 19, 2007

Week of August 12, 2007

Week of August 5, 2007

Samara Camp in Russia

Week of July 22, 2007

The Jewish Agency is deeply grateful to the supporters of our FSU Summer Camps: 
 
The Associated:  Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
The Columbus Jewish Foundation
ICHEIC - International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
 Jewish Federation of Nashville
 Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County
 Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago
Minneapolis Jewish Federation
Nathan T. Sedley Memorial/Tribute Fund and The Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County
Syracuse Jewish Federation Inc.
UJA-Federation of New York
 UJC and the Jewish Federations of North America through Operation Promise
Youngstown Area Jewish Federation