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Every Jewish camp counselor is following Moses’ final lesson, and we should too
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Every Jewish camp counselor is following Moses’ final lesson, and we should tooEvery summer, thousands of Jewish camp counselors do something extraordinary: Like Moses in the final days of his life, they devote themselves to preparing a generation whose greatest achievements they may never live to see.
As we walked through Camp YJ, Camp Tevya, and the Ramah Day Camp in Waltham, I suddenly realized that Jewish camp is the modern-day expression of one of the Torah’s oldest leadership lessons.
And every summer, thousands of Jewish camp counselors quietly follow in his footsteps.
Our board left camp this week inspired by a vision of a future in which every Jewish family who wants the gift of Jewish camp can afford it, and every camp has the capacity to welcome them.
But perhaps the measure of Jewish leadership has never been whether we reach the Promised Land ourselves.