A Great Final Yom Meyuchad of Kayitz 2025!

Most Wednesdays here at camp are what we call a Yom Meyuchad.  Our mumchim (adult specialty staff), along with some counselors, have the day off, so instead of running our regular schedule, we run all sorts of special fun programming.

We tried our best to really pack in the fun here at camp today, with lots of special programming happening across camp.

We were thrilled to host Vassar College’s Men’s head basketball coach, Ryan Mee, at camp today — Coach Mee ran special basketball clinics for our JV and Varsity Roo teams as well as campers in Solelim, Shoafim and Tikvah.  Click here to read more!

In the middle of the day we had our Glidah Gladness party, with ice cream for all of our chanichim (campers!)

In the afternoon was the annual Shapell Classic softball game, played in memory of Tikvah camper Jake Shapell z”l.  It was so fun to see campers and staff from across camp playing and watching this softball game, along with players from our Tikvah programs!

I ran an It’s a Good Life Chug Seder for the Shoafimers in my silly chug, in which we walked through all the steps of the Seder, albeit with twizzlers and blue drink!

A highlight of the day was the incredible NIVONIM machazemer: Despicable Me!!  The Nivonimers put on an incredible show!!  We’ll have the footage available soon — we can’t wait for you to see their incredible performance.

After the machazemer, I joined adat ha-MACHON to open the time capsule they’d created at the end of their Bogrim kayitz.  I’ve been keeping it safe for them.  (I am the keeper of many time capsules here at camp!!)  It was a pleasure getting to watch the kids’ joyous reactions to read their time capsule letters to themselves.  The kids got a little emotional when Tova Gelb, Rosh Machon, read the letters that their Bogrim madrichim/ot (counselors) had written to them.  This was a special moment.

What a great day here at camp!