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As I enter my eighth year of directing Camp Shalom, I never cease to get excited while making plans for the upcoming summer! So, I’m happy to take this opportunity to share my excitement with you! What could be better than a summer-long birthday party? Israel turns 75 this year and Camp Shalom will be celebrating! This summer, we will bring the art, cultures, cuisine, landscape, and language of Israel to camp! Each week, we will focus on a different region of Israel to explore. Campers will experience the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of this beautiful, complex and diverse...

Summer 2022 is all about exploring! Exploration is how children learn about the world around them and themselves.

This summer we will explore the beautiful Miami Valley through field trips to exciting destinations. All campers will participate in one field trip a week. Our oldest campers (Trees- entering grades 6 and 7) will have an additional field trip each week.

We’ll also explore our interests! As you look through our 2022 summer camp brochure, you’ll notice that we’re offering a variety of specialty camps that will appeal to campers of all ages. ...

I’m Meryl Hattenbach, the director of Camp Shalom at the JCC of Greater Dayton. This will be my sixth summer as the camp director. I come from a robust background of Jewish camping. I grew up with the JCC summer camps: first in the day camp at the Cincinnati JCC, and then at Camp Livingston as a camper for five years and then a counselor for another four.

**IMPORTANT UPDATE** As of Monday, June 1 at 5PM, the Preschool reopening is now June 11 due to unforeseen circumstances** We have set target dates to open our JCC Preschool on June 8 and JCC Summer Camp on June 8, allowing our staff the time to put in place all mandatory and best practices of the Ohio Department of Health’s Responsible Restart Ohio plan and Stay Safe Ohio order connected to the Covid-19 pandemic. These target dates are based on estimations our staff have made in order to prepare and fully comply with requirements and best practices put forward by...

I hope this letter finds you and your family healthy and well. As you may expect, the JCC of Greater Dayton, along with the Jewish Federation, is monitoring the COVID-19 situation very closely.

The K-Club did a wonderful job starting our garden this month. We planted seeds of six different vegetables: sugar snap peas, radishes, kohlrabi (a weird looking, but delicious root vegetable), mixed lettuce, spinach and curly kale.

Reading a bedtime story is a special ritual for children and their families, and it doesn’t have to end when kids go off to Jewish Camp.

When someone mentions Jewish Family Services, what comes to mind? If you thought, “seniors,” you are not alone. While the majority of JFS clients are seniors, young adults and young families also use our services.