camp achdus times - week 6

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James Kethen, reporter and

analyst of the Chicago Post, in

his essay on youth summereducaon and acvity, com-

piled a list of the naons top one

hundred summer instuons for

children. The

evaluaon

was based on

many factors,

including:

educaon,

amusement,

trips, ath-

ecs, culinary arts, aquacs, arts

and cras, eco-friendliness, sanita-

on, level of air polluon, and ruach.

The ten highest rated instuons

were: 10) Camp Rayim in Parksville,

New York 9) Hallsted Summer School

n Bangor, Maine 8) Yum-Yum-ABC-

123 daycare in Ralinn, Kentucky 7)

Camp Bonim in Waymart, Pennsylva-

nia 6) Dunwoody Summer Flying

School in Dunwoody, Texas 5) Mo-

hammed Youth Group in Kingstown,

Louisiana 4) Ring Island Day Camp in

Ring Island, Hawaii 3) Spring Lakeuvenile Correconal Center in

Spring Lake, Utah 2) Camp Achdus in

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 1) Coalion

of Young Men Summer Entertain-

ment in Altuna, New Mexico.

Yes, you heard right, your beloved

Camp Achdus was named second

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AchdusTimesW E E K

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HURRY! YEARBOOK DEADLINE THIS SUNDAY!

Monday

R

to Camp Achdus!

The happy couple

who recently shared veryhappy news with the world

graced Camp Achdus with

their presence! They came

from a foreign country

where English is spoken but

with a different accent. They

were ushered into the camp

with music and dancing. A

gourmet meal of pickled

(deli)cacies, prepared by our

camp matriarch and chefRebbetzin Chana Gold-

stein, imported all the way

from the other side of the

Continent, was served. Yes,

Prince William and Prin-

cess Kate, The Duke and

Duchess of Cambridge,

brought their new baby

George Alexander Louis for a

visit. Unfortunately, due to

the sheva brachos ofZevi

and Rivka Carlebach,no-

body noticed the Prince and

Princess. Oh well, maybe

next time.

In other news, Camp

Achdus continued as usual

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Week in ReviewRABBI AKIVA POLLACK

The James KethenReport

Philadelphia Day Camp

Named Nations 2nd Best

BINYOMIN ROSSKAMM, Special Times Ana lys t

VIEW CURRENT AND

PAST ISSUES AT

CAMPACHDUS.COM .

Get Your Achdus Kpage 3

Masmid of the We

Hillel Friedmanpage 4

Guest Speaker:

Rabbi Y. M. Rowner

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1 WEEK IN REVIEW

1 THE KETHEN REPORT

2 STAYING HYDRATED

4 LEARNING LEADERS

5 GIBORIM OF THE WE

6 THIS WEEK IN THE A

6 UPCOMING EVENTS

SPECIAL FEATURES


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What a busyweek this has been!Right off the bat, we had afantastic Sheva Brachos forRabbi & Mrs. Zevi Carlebach. Without a

moment to spare, the older bunks left for

their Grand Trip in the Poconos, and, by the

time they came back on Tuesday, the rest of

camp had already left for their exciting trip

at Bounce-U. Wedneday, Thursday, and Fri-

day were jam-packed with activities because

of an unexpected[?] S&S breakout on

Wednesday. Now, about to go into Shabbos,we can inally catch our collective breath, for

at least enough time to thank our devoted

head staff for all the work they have invested

into producing a great program!

There is a critical question that must be

asked. What, after so much fun and excite-

ment, do we have to show for all our time?

Are we to depart from such a week empty-

handed? Did we experience no growth for a

week?

Baruch Hashem, here, in Camp Achdus, the

answer is a loud and resounding, no!Ourmagniicent Bais Medrash was as vibrant as

always. Even on Monday, when many were

giddy with

anticipation

for the big

trip, the Kol

Torah was

strong and

full of life!

You have

doubts, doyou not? Thanks to our GPS point system, we

have the numbers to back us up. This week

alone, campers in Vuv and Sufaccumulated

1,947 points forfour days of learning (we

missed Tuesday because of the trip), com-pared with last weeks ,0 points inive

days! (For those of you who are keeping

track, that is, on average, 79 more points

per day!) Kol hakavodto the outstanding

campers, counselors, and rebbeim for theirbeautiful hasmada.

This weeks Friday speaker was the re-

nowned orator Rabbi Yisroel Meir Rown-

er, son-in-law of our beloved Rabbi Nul-

man. His highly captivating shmuezempha-

sized that the Torah does not take an all-or-

nothing attitude, and how we must make

small changes in our lives by setting small

goals, and seeing ourselves succeed in at-

taining them, step by step.

Staying HydratedRABBI ZECHARYA MICHELSOHN with Davening, Learning,

Sports and Games. Mr.

Somers taught the chil-

dren how to play the

game of Soccer and Mrs.

D. Lipsky

taught the

children how

to make Hap-

py Smiley

Faces. Each

kid made one;

now bunk

Aleph has

double the

kids. They Yungere divi-

sion of Achdus had a reg-

ular, exciting day, swim-

ming at the Y or playingat the park. The Older

division, in a mature, yet

pleasurable, way, pre-

pared for a fun-illed trip

to Camelbeach Water-

park! Woohoo! Now,

when Camp Achdus goes

on a trip, they GO ON A

TRIP! A three hour water

park visit turned into an

overnight adventure.

Boys from bunks Vuv and

Sufshopped for days buy-

ing tents, insect repellent,

water shoes, Alligators,

and so on and so forth.

Brandon Outlaw,

our resident driver,

commandeered a

Maytav bus and cap-

tained our ragtag

group as we jour-

neyed to the beauti-

ful Pocono Moun-

tains. Rabbi Akiva

(thats me) also

came along in his

Jacket, tie and hat

(Play Ball). After a three

hour tour (A three hour

tour) we inally arrived at

Tobyhanna State Park.

This was a boys trip, of

course, so Toby and Han-

nah went to a different

park for the night. Now it

was called TuviaGoldstein

State Park. (Hey, not eve-

ry joke can be funny). Af-

ter building the tents, col-

lecting irewood, and

making a massive barbe-cue, we changed into our

swimsuits and made our

way to Camelbeach. Hun-

dreds of other campers

were there from many

other camps but no one

came close to the great

middos of Camp Achdus

campers! The water was

absolutely freezing but

the warmth of Jewish chil-

dren enjoying their Sum-

mers heated everything

up! There were massive

slides, massive slides and

even a few massive slides.

Oh, and a wave pool. It

was really great. At 11:45

pm we inally made our

ways back to TuviaGold-

stein State Park and

promptly went to sleep

is possible that a few bo

stayed up in order to

guard the Camp site fro

bears but absolutely no

one told

scary sto-

ries, sang

Kumzitz

songs or

made

Smores an

roasted

Sweet Pot

toes. A sp

cial thank you goes out

Itzik Bass for collecting

about two tons of Fire-

wood. Another specialthanks toAndrew Bren

ner and Simcha Press

who made a siyum and

provided the Smores fo

the Kehilah.

Tuesday

Well, early the next

morning, we made our

way back to the holy lan

of Philadelphia and somhow made it through th

day without falling asle

A.D. actually helped by

leading a really cool A.D

time! Erstwhile, the Jun

ior division of th

greatest camp in

the world, Camp

Achdus, went to

Bounce Universi

where they learn

all of the rudimen

tary science behin

Newtons 3rd law.

Every action has

an equal and opp

site reaction. Due to th

sophistication of the les

sons, the boys were act

ally able to physically

demonstrate their ex-(Connued on pag

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Week in Review(Continued from Page 1)


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panded knowledge of the

science and bounced their

way to the moon. They used

an instrument called amoonbounce in order to per-

form this scientiic experi-

ment. Yishai Yemini

climbed up one of the big-

gest air slides in the world

and Chaim Leib Miller

bounced a massive basket

ball! Yaakov Moshe Gold-

stein took a spin in the hur-

ricane machine and ended

up in Kansas. Dave Lubell

and Binyomin Rosskamm

(Yes, that Binyomin Ros-

skamm,) had a boxing match

with the biggest boxing

gloves you have ever seen!

Wow, that must hurt. It was

a really exciting trip. Lets

just hope the kids dont con-

tinue their experiments on

the walls of Kol Ami. That

would be an experiment in

anger management.

Wednesday

The day seems to start off

pretty normally but as Aesop

said, Dont count your

chickens before they hatch.

Especially Yeshivishe chick-

ens. Or as Eusebius Jerome

said, Dont look a gift horse

in the mouth. Soineh


YarmulkaThis super-cool yarmulk

was designed by

Rabbi Yaakov Abraham

All the head staff,

and many others,

are already wearing the

To order yours, email

[email protected].

Camp Achdus Yarmulka: $1

With name: $11

best, of the naons summer ins-

tuons! Immediately following

the release of Kethens essay, an

invesgaon was launched to

determine Achduss secret for

near perfecon, as well as to un-

covering their preventave from

possessing rst place. In a press

report following a

lengthy invesgaon,

Albert Hannly, spokes-

man for the invesga-

on team explained:

Among its numerous

advantages, Camp

Achdus boasts thehealthiest canteen in

the connent, oering

calorie free water, in

addion to a strictly

enforced prohibion

on any substance con-

taining even the minut-

est amount of food coloring. Addi-

onally, in response to the inter-

naonal fear of the imminent

global warming, and climate

change crisis, Camp Achdus joined

the worlds united eort to re-

duce the emission of greenhouse

gasses into the atmosphere with

their persistence in under booking

the necessary buses for ecient

transportaon. With regard to

the failure from achieving rst

place, Hannly concluded, The

camps facility lacked ecient

funconing facilies, further-

more a safety hazard recently has

been reported, a regulaon s

grave was discovered right in

front of the buildings main e

trance.

A dinner was held in honor

the camps accomplishments a

the Ritz-Carlton in Abu Dhabi,

UAE. Rabbi Tuvia Go

stein, execuve dire

and sporadic visitor

camp Achdus, arm

the dinners audien

that the camps boa

directors have alrea

commenced the ne

sary procedures to

fy the camps decie

cies. In an interview

Goldsen proclaime

that this is just a ba

step in the camps b

for internaonal fam

Goldsteins closed t

interview by declaring, Toda

the ChicagoPost, tomorrow,

world.

James Kethen Report(continued from sidebar on Page 1)

Matanos Yichyeh. This day is

about to take on a life of its

own.

The camp lines up for Can-

teen but something is wrong.

Smoke is billowing out of the

kitchen door. And you know

what they say where

theres smoke theres ire.

Mordechai Phelps is actual-

ly telling people NOT to come

into the kitchen for once.

Rabbi Akiva starts yelling!

Who went into the kitchen

without permission?! Every-

one to ield number 2! Farfrom the ire and close to

safety! Whats this? Eitan

Goldman is admitting to

starting the ire. Cars are

honking and playing loud

music. What songs are they

playing? Songs and Skits!

S&S! Wow, what a breakout!!

Everyone was fooled, espe-

cially Yaakov Horwitz. Off to

lunch, except for Rabbi Akivawho is taped to the wall by

Binyomin Rosskamm (yes,

thatBinyomin Rosskamm).

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His crime? Hogging the

mike from Binyomin Ros-

skamm (yes, that one).

Lunch is short so that the

bunks can learn

their bunk songs.

And so they do! Each

bunk performs their

songs against the

backdrop of the Kir-

atorium doors. One

is funnier than the

next. The raw talent

of our precious staff

and campers is over-

lowing like a shaken up

Coke can. Which are actual-

ly not allowed in Camp, but

thats another story foranother time. Swim and

Park follow. Yada yada

yada. Who cares? Lets see

those skits and dances al-

ready!

Thursday

Shalom Aleichem Mala-

chei Hashareis! Welcome

Angelic children of Camp

Achdus for another fun-

illed day of beautiful sun-

ny skies! Just because it is

pouring does not mean that

the sun is not shining

above the clouds. If all the

raindrops were lem-

ondrops and gumdrops, oh

what a day this would be.

Id stand outside with my

mouth open wide Ah Ah ah

ah aha aha ah ahaah. (Barney the Purple

Dinosaur).

Rabbi Akiva is not here

again! Hes ired! Yehuda,

take over! Hey wheres

Yehuda? Oh hes also tak-

ing off? Pink eye my foot, I

mean my eye! Oh well, I

guess the new head coun-

selor is Benjy! Yeah!!! Free

meatballs for everyone in

camp! The campers imme-

diately begin to slave over

the dances, songs and sk

their counselors prepare

for them last night. I, as

head counselor, persona

witnessedAndrew

Brenner and Zach

Greenberg dancin

their hearts out th

night before. With

little encourageme

from Mordechai

and Ariel Benila

they didnt stop pr

ticing! What Mesir

Nefesh for the Kla

Swimming worked out

great (It was the bussing

that was the issue.) Oh, w

cant wait until tomorrowwhen we inally perform

Friday

Summers with Som-

mers, Skits, Dance, Songs

Zecharya working on th

very newsletter. Oh, who

shall be the winner? Stay

tuned for next weeks iss

even though we never ta

about last weeks Friday next weeks issue.

Have a great Shabbos

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Kashrus PolicyBy following the link below, please nd

collecons ofkosher supervision organ-

izaons accepted in camp.

hp://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php

Please note that foods with kosher su-

pervision provided by the Triangle-K

maynotbe broughtto camp.

Most Points Week 6

Hillel Friedman (492)

Current High Scores

1)Shloimy Ribiat889 POINTS

2)Hillel Friedman657 POINTS

3)Eliyahu Bucholtz460 POINTS

4)Aharon Nulman427 POINTS

5)Yisrael Arbiv216 POINTS

GEMARA POINTS SYSTEM


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YearbookThe deadline for this years Camp

Achdus yearbook is Sunday!

Campers, counselors, and

all others are welcome to submit.

Please send arcles to

[email protected].
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Simcha Kaplun helped to set up shul kiddush

on shabbos and made telephone bikur cholim visits

to his grandfather!

Mrs. Raizy Kaplun

Boruch Bass went inside to A&C immediately

upon being asked to.

Yaakov Glattwent inside to A&C immediately

upon being asked to.

Yosef Chaim Goldstein stayed inside the cross-

walk the enre me while crossing the street.

Mordechai Mosheyev followed all the rules at

the creek.

Levi Goldman

Chezky Levittgave his own dollar to a man who

came to the house asking for tzedaka!

Chezkys AbbaThe following boys davened extra beaufully on

Wednesday: Simcha Kaplan, Chaim Leib Miller,

Gershy Schwartz, Emanuel Gola, Benny Bell,Meir Ellman, Moshe Jacobs, Nosson Kay.

Yehuda Tenenbaum

Bunk Ches Kuttun davened marvelously on

Wednesday!

Binyomin Rosskamm

Chaim Leib was responsible with mommys keys

and remembered to lock all the doors that he

opened!

Chaim Leib was extra kind and paent with his

younger brothers!

Yona Tzvi did not share a very special secret

surprise with his siblings even though he is so excited

about it!

Mrs. Miller

Yaakov listened to his counselor when he was

told to go back inside!

Efraim ate his breakfast so well even though he

didnt really want to!

Mrs. Glatt

When Bunk Ches Kuttun returned from

Bounce U, they cleaned their bunk room unl it was

spotless even though they were thoroughly red!

Yossi Rosner bentched very, very well, nicely,

beaufully, quite superbly indeed, wow, and Im

geng carried away now...

Yona Tzvi Miller apologized even though it was

very dicult for him!

Yona Tzvi told a teammate, Good job! when

he got out!

Daniel, at rst, forgot to wash and make a bro-

cho before eang his sandwich. But, when he was

reminded, he stopped eang right away, washed,

and made a brocho!

Yossi Rosner bentched very, very well, nicely,

beaufully, quite superbly indeed, wow, and Im

geng carried away now...

Chaim Shvartz got paper towels to wipe up thespill in the bunk room!

Aer many strenuous minutes of trying to pick a

song for the dance for Bunk Ches, the Bunk Ches

Counselors had kimat decided to use Mendy Mu-

sic. But, aer a head sta member referred to this

choice as a cop-out, kindly asked the counselors to

work a lile harder, and falsely accused a certain

sta member of tzidkus (righteousness) and anivus

(humility), all the Bunk Ches counselors rallied to-

gether and constructed a dance which, beezras Ha-

shem, will give pleasure to and excite the aforemen-

oned head sta member!

Chaim Leib played a game and included otherswho he preferred not to include!

A. Logue

Daniel Itzhakov volunteered to switch seats in

order to avoid dispute.

B Rosskamm

Yaakov Glattand Boruch Bass went inside to

A&C immediately upon being asked to!

Mordechai Mosheyev followed all the rules at

the creek!

Yosef Chaim Goldstein stayed inside the cross-walk the enre me while crossing the street!

L. Goldman

Yaakov Horwitz heard Rabbi Goldstein asking,

Who wants to do a mitzvah? and ran to oer his

help!

Yaakov Horwitz saw Rabbi Goldstein picking

trash up o the oor and ran to help!

Chanoch Ganz saw Rabbi Goldstein carrying

siddurim and helped by taking the siddurim!

Tzvi Ganz listened to counselor when told to

listen to hockey rules!

Yaakov Moshe Goldstein Went to check onanother boy who fell while roller skang!

Reuven Rudin chose the non-caeinated soda

so that he wouldnt get too jumpy!

Aaron Badush cleaned the bus aer a trip!

Yehuda Tenenbaum heard that one of the

toilets had been stued with toilet paper and imme-

diately rolled up his sleeves and went to save the

day!

Josh Gordon returned a pen that he borrowed

from me!

Rabbi Goldstein

Lunch had just enand we were ab

to bentch. All pr

ceeded customarily until, su

denly, Rabbi Goldstein walk

purposefully into the room,

Dovi Goldman following exc

edly at his side. Rabbi Gold

stein whispered something

Rabbi Pollacks ear and, in a

moment, Rabbi Pollack und

stood exactly what to do. A

many weeks of hard work,

Rabbi Pollack announced, a

boy has completed his Gevu

Chart! Cheers erupted from

corners of the room and, wi

out delay, little Dovi Goldma

seated on a chair, was lifted

into the air, high above his

friends. Jubilant song sprea

throughout the room as Dov

proud counselors and friend

sang Yamim al yimei Melech

tosif, a song whose lyrics be

on Hashem to grant extende

life and vibrancy to those w

fulill His will so dutifully. S

that day, Achdus campers o

ages walk the hallways and

strut the ields with an idea

their minds: to use our gevu

to vanquish the evil inclinat

that seeks to destroy us. To

remain calm and conident i

the face of adversity, to be

more kind, compassionate,

caring for our friends, to sho

greater respect and, thereby

be more worthy of respect-

of these are our goals, all of

these are our achievements

of these are the life of a devo

Camp Achdus Gibor!

The Completed

Chart!RABBI GEDALIA GOLDSTEINReprinted from the July 26 edion of th

AchdusTimes.


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MONDAY

Sports, A&C, Swimming.

Vuv and Sufare going camping and boang at

French Creek State Park!

Leaving camp:at 2 pm (Monday)

Returning to campat about 2 pm (Tuesday)

Camp will provide:BBQ Supper (Monday) and

Breakfast and Lunch (Tuesday)

You will need: Sleeping bag, pillow, pajamas,

change of clothing, toothbrush/toothpaste/oss,

siddur/tellin, ash light, large water bole, extra

snack, swimsuit, towel, water shoes, bug repellant

sun block (for boang on Tuesday morning).

Campers may not bring electronic devices on this

trip or they will be conscated. Cell phones can

be deposited with a counselor.TUESDAY

A&C, Swimming

WEDNESDAY

Sports, A&C, Swimming, Bunk Alef and Ches

"Camping" Trip - wear pajamas; eat smores!

THURSDAY

A&C, Swimming

FRIDAY

Extreme Nature Hike with Mr. Pechter!

You will need a t-shirt, baseball hat, old sneakers

(that can get very wet) and shorts.

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Upcoming Events

Bunks Alef & Ches Kattan

There are so many ways to

paint a picture, you can use

a brush, a sponge, your n-gers and even a straw. A straw????

How do you paint with a straw?

You mean you use the straw like a

brush? NO, we use the straw to blow

the paint on the paper. We started

with just 4 colors. blue, red, yellow

and green. We placed drops of color

on our papers and blew the paint so

that the colors all mixed. It was fun

watching the paint move on the pa-

per. What beauful abstract

painngs!

Bunk Ches GadolThis week the boys made a fun

project with Perler beads (did you

know that perler is the Danish word

for beads?). There were stars, ow-

ers, circles, and even some animals.

Some of the boys took

their me to really make

an intricate paern. In

fact there were a few boys

that did not want to leave

Arts & Cras! Aer de-

signing their projects they

had to carefully walk over

to the ironing board to get

them fused. Unfortunate-

ly, some of the beads did

fall o and they had to be

reset. The end result was

worth it!

MRS. DORIS LIPSKY This Week in the Arts

Itzik Bass collected tons of

wood for the bonre on the

Camelbeach trip!

Rabbi Pollack

Moshe Badush was very helpful

when his lile brother needed his

help!

Morah Chani Goldstein

Yaakov Horwitz oered to take

responsibility for another boy who

could only come on the Camelbeach

trip with a helper.

Y. Tenenbaum

Eli Bell gave his balloon to his

brother, Yaakov!

Yaakov Bell hugged his lile

sister when she was crying!

Mrs. Bell

Shloimy and Yehoshua have

been great helping out around the

house and geng ready for the new

baby. They came to the hospital to

visit and were so quiet and polite that

all the nurses were talking about

them. What a kiddush Hashem!

A Proud New MommyReuven Rudin and Noam Gold

cleaned up the bunks mess in the

bunkroom!

Yoisef Kahn

Yoni Galen was eang a choco-

late graham cracker in front of anoth-

er boy, the other boy wanted one, so

he brought one in for that boy the

next day!

Rabbi Goldstein

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