Jewish Camps
Jewish summer camps provide an environment for campers to live and experience religion in addition to traditional camp activities, and are quite popular throughout the Jewish communities of the United States and Canada. Some camps are part of specific Jewish movements such as Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructionist, or Conservative, some are focused on Zionism and the role of Israel in Jewish life, while others focus on providing positive Jewish identity-building experiences through Jewish culture. Their wide scope cover all interests from specialty camps to general, all-inclusive activity camps and special needs programs/camps.
Many Jewish Summer camps provide experiences for American Jews to spend a summer with each other as well as Israeli staff. The main role of Jewish camps in the United States is to allow young Jewish children to find and identify with a community.
In Canada, there are many overnight Jewish camps as well as Jewish day camps.
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