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Keeping counselors informed and kids protected at summer camp

Phil Jacobs21.06.2018

“Online abuse-prevention program helps Jewish summer camps minimize incidents of abuse and ensure that campers that have been abused in the past will be identified, supported and guided towards professional care.”

A lake in Camp Ramah in New England. Credit: Facebook.

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Carry on: after 130 years, an eruv marks Poughkeepsie’s Jewish rite of passage

Phil Jacobs21.04.2017

Harold Warren, second vice president of the historic Congregation Schomre Israel, stands at one of the boundaries for the new eruv in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Credit: Courtesy of Harold Warren.

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When Batman’s Batcave was a children’s hospital ward

Phil Jacobs19.08.2015

Click photo to download. Caption: The late Leonard "Lenny" Robinson would dress in a Batman costume and visit pediatric wards in the Baltimore and Washington, DC areas. Credit: YouTube screenshot.

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