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Jewish Agency summer and winter camps across the former Soviet Union (FSU) serve as a high-impact gateway for Russian-speaking youth to meet and share life-transforming, Jewish identity-building experiences with their peers, many for the first time. Trained counselors from the FSU and Israel provide campers with an immersion in informal Jewish and Israel education. Counselors, many of whom are alumni of Jewish Agency camps themselves, are inspiring role models as they awaken campers’ Jewish identity and connection with Israel and global Jewry as well as their Jewish heritage.
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Art Midrasha in Kiev

Sabina Enenberg, 12 years old, Kiev, 2nd time in the camp
Sabina says: I'm lucky because my parents work in the Jewish community and I know about all the events happening there. I love going to holidays to the synagogue and stand on the balcony with my mom.

I like the intensive program at camp, and counselors are great.

Being Jewish means remembering about your roots and traditions of your people, and observing some of the traditions when possible.

Israel is the Land promised by God to His people.

I will stay being active in the community and when it is possible I will become a counselor!

One of the most memorable events in the camp: Strategic game “Once upon a time in Tel-Aviv” Read more...


In Their Own Words

Follow campers and counselors over the course of the summer as they share their personal experiences at our FSU Summer Camps.

Nina, 20 years old, counselor:
For the first time in many years our ca mp was conducted at a site nearVladivostok near the sea that gave us many options to provide campers with fun and educational activities. Read more.

 


Our Activities and Impact
Jewish Agency summer and winter camps across the former Soviet Union (FSU) serve as a high-impact gateway for Russian-speaking youth to meet and share life-transforming, Jewish identity-building experiences with their peers, many for the first time. Trained counselors from the FSU and Israel provide campers with an immersion in informal Jewish and Israel education. Counselors, many of whom are alumni of Jewish Agency camps themselves, are inspiring role models as they awaken campers’ Jewish identity and connection with Israel and global Jewry as well as their Jewish heritage.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Jewish Federations of North America for their generous support to 2012 summer camps session:

Our Partners
The Jewish Agency is deeply grateful to the supporters of our FSU Summer Camps:
UJA-Federation of New York, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, The Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Crown Family Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, The ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund of San Francisco, Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Jewish Federation of St. Louis, Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, Jewish Federation of Monmouth County, Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, Nathan T. Sedley Memorial Fund.


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