His camp’s favorite musical choices, and some of his own
Music is an integral part of the camp experience, the backdrop of summers both past and present. As Rabbi Armo Kuessous returns to Camp Romimu this summer for his 29th season as Head Counselor, he shares some of his camp’s favorite musical choices, and some of his own.
A song that always works to get everyone up and singing
“Ahalelah, Ahalelah Elokai” always gets everyone going. [The song was composed by Yaakov Yosef Buksbaum of Skver, and released as a single by Ahrele Samet.]
Romimu’s favorite Shabbos zemiros
Shlomo Katz’s “Yismechu — Shabbos Kodesh” is very big, very geshmak. Each Shabbos, we have about 600 people, which includes just four of our six divisions and their staff, seated in our very large dining room. We divide that room into quarters according to division, with one person in the middle leading the zemiros, and of course each section tries to outsing the others with this song.
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