"Why should you have to leave camp to go elsewhere, when camp in and of itself is mei’ein Olam Haba?"
When summer 2021 rolls around, will we have learned anything?
With the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on the world and on all things we once considered normal, it could be argued that no industry was affected more than the frum camping industry.
For a camp director in New York state, the unimaginable happened. However, now I’m writing this looking out my window at a beautiful mountain in our temporary home in New Hampshire. If you had told me in January that I would be spending my summer in Hebron, New Hampshire, I would have thought you fell off the moon.
Now all the crazy weeks of the unknown — traveling seven hours each way, building the eiruv and mechitzah, and kashering the kitchen — are basically forgotten. Just today we had our health department inspection, and we can’t thank Hashem enough for the results — especially considering the 1,200-plus coronavirus tests and crazy amount of paperwork we had to go through. The kids are having the times of their lives and are literally walking on air. They’re just so happy to be here and be together with their friends. I can breathe a sigh of relief, since it was all worth it.
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