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2008
- Detroit Jewish News
A sea of blue and white — clothing, face paint and Israeli flags — flooded the Pioneer Skills field at Camp Maas on Aug. 8 in celebration of Israel Day, a day of games, music, food and fun to honor Israel.
2008
- Detroit Jewish News
I write this letter in strong support of Tamarack Camps' decision to maintain its high standard of kashrut supervision ("Keeping Kosher" April 10) so that it can remain a comfortable place for Jews of all denominations, beliefs and backgrounds.
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2008
- Detroit Jewish News
Tamarack Camps hire rabbi, an alumnus to supervise kitchen and enhance Jewish programs.
Tamarack Camps will remain kosher, according to executive director Jonah Geller; however its kitchen will no longer be supervised by an Orthodox rabbi.
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2008
- by Jonah Geller • Detroit Jewish News
Kudos to Rabbi Aaron Starr and his colleagues for joining the cause for Jewish camping. I was delighted to see Rabbi Starr focus on the importance of Jewish camping, Jewish continuity and Jewish identity.
We are grateful for the tremendous support the many rabbis of our community provide to help train our staff, consult on a variety of issues, serve on our board of directors and come to camp to enrich our Judaic programs and visit with children and young adults from their congregations.
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2008
- by Lori Higgins • The Detroit Free Press
New hockey rink floors, horse barn and dining hall interior will greet kids heading this summer to an Ortonville camp, thanks to a philanthropic organization's challenge to donors.
It's an exciting development to Brian Langnas, an 11-year-old hockey enthusiast who said it was time for a new rink at Camp Maas.
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2008
Special to www.JNOnline.us
Tamarack Camps was the most successful of several Jewish camps in a recent fundraising challenge.
The challenge, sponsored by the Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy, provides matching grant dollars to enhance Camp Maas, Tamarack's overnight camp in Ortonville.
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2007
- by Carolyn Slutsky • Special to the Jewish Week
In a hilly corner of northeastern Pennsylvania, someone recites the motzi into a microphone as sweaty children race late into the covered dining hall, joining their friends at long tables as lightweight screen doors slam behind them. The walls of the barn-like building are decorated with posters from color wars past, teams with names like Dreidels of the Lost Ark, Willy Wonka and the Matzah Factory, and the most recent edition, Harry Potter and the Search for Kabbalah, whose members are now likely in college or beyond.
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2007
- by Robin Schwartz • Special to the Jewish News
The thrill of zipping across the water on skis, with wind on her face and waves at her feet, is something Hanna Ivri, 14, of Nazareth Illit recently experienced for the first time at Camp Maas in Ortonville.
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2007
- by Robin Schwartz • Detroit Jewish News
Tamarack Camps hold a special place in the heart of Darren Findling of Huntington Woods. As a child, he enjoyed summers of swimming, sports and Jewish enrichment on the 1,500-acre wooded grounds of Tamarack’s residential camping facility, Camp Maas in Ortonville. As an adult, Findling serves on the board of the Fresh Air Society, which oversees Tamarack Camps. The father of four young children also met his wife, Alyson, at camp.
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2007
- by David Crumm • The Detroit Free Press
The 14 Jewish and Latino families who nervously unpacked their gear for a cross-cultural camping experience Friday afternoon in northern Oakland county soon discovered their communities shared more than they expected.
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2006
- By Shelli Liebman Dorfman •
Detroit Jewish News
Following the death of a Tamarack Camp director, Jeff Grey, the staff has grappled to review details of the tragedy and help campers and counselors who witnessed the accident cope and grieve together.
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2006
- Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Remember those special summers at camp. The potent blend of friendship, sports, and growing up under blue skies surrounded by the smell of leafy trees. We thought we were just having fun for a couple of weeks in the summertime. It now turns out that much more was happening than we realized.
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2006
- Doug Chandler
Jewish children from Metro Detroit have visited the Western Wall during each of the past two summers, placing notes in the Kotel’s crevices that speak of their hopes and dreams. They’ve also held ceremonies at the Wall and observed holidays there.
But they didn’t have to travel to Jerusalem to visit the Wall, says Jonah Geller, executive director of the Fresh Air Society and Tamarack Camps, an agency of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. In fact, they had to go no further than Tamarack’s overnight camp in Ortonville, where campers and staff built a replica of the Kotel two summers ago.
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Tamarack’s stepped-up Judaic and Israel programming
2006
- Shelli Liebman Dorfman, Staff Writer
Ortonville: One of the best things Eve Posen heard all summer was from a pre-teenager who said her two favorite things at Tamarack Camps’ Camp Maas were water-skiing – and Jewish activities.
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