For Natalie, a first-year Shlichah (female Israeli emissary) who worked at Ramah Nyack this summer, coming to an American camp to serve as an Israeli ambassador was a no-brainer.
Typically Shlichim are Israeli emissaries serving in Jewish communities around the world. But with the new Ami Shlichim program, the Jewish emissaries serving in summer camps in North America are non-Israelis.
Many Jews living in the Soviet Union have little knowledge of what it means to be Jewish, and no understanding of what it means to have a positive Jewish identity. Such was the case with Uliana.