This coming summer, a California camp is taking the lead from Habonim Dror Camp Moshava by adding all-gender housing for campers. Mosh has offered such housing since 2017, two summers ago.
“While the move is pioneering, it isn’t precedent setting: According to the Foundation for Jewish Camp, Habonim Dror’s Camp Moshava in Maryland has offered all-gender cabins since 2017, and the foundation itself offered the option to camp counselors attending its Cornerstone Seminar last year.”
Category Archives: Machaneh
An evolving experience
Friday 22nd, January 2016 Written by Mira Sucharov
On a little corner of Gabriola Island lies an enclave of old-style Jewish utopianism. Modeled after a kibbutz, campers (chanichim) and counselors (madrichim) talk about heady topics like radical justice, equal worth, unionization, socialism and Labor Zionism.
They learn Hebrew, engage in physical labor and debate topics like whether O Canada adequately addresses the reality of First Nations, the fate of the Palestinians, and how to make a radically inclusive society within Israel. It’s Camp Miriam, part of the network of Habonim-Dror camps across North America. Among the founders of the camp was my grandmother, Marian Margolis, and I spent one memorable summer there as a counselor in 1990. Read more …
Mentoring and Grants Helps Camp Gesher Thrive
Lila Sarick, Staff Reporter, Wednesday, June 10, 2015
JCamp180, a philanthropic organization based in Massachusetts, is the reason why Ontario’s Camp Gesher has brand-new cabins and a much more sophisticated board of directors. Read more ….
Six North American Summer Camps
Machanot Kayitz — מחנות קיץ
Habonim Dror machanot (summer camps) provide children ages 8-17 with a unique camping experience. Based on the model of a kibbutz, each machaneh (camp) creates a close-knit community based on Jewish ideals of collective responsibility, respect, equality, and friendship. A wealth of activities, programs, and scouting events are offered at each machaneh: from arts and crafts to Hebrew songs and rikkud (Israeli dancing); a full sports program to nature study. Chanichimot (campers) will grow physically, emotionally and intellectually in a creative, open, and caring environment. Habonim Dror has been providing a machaneh experience since 1932.
To find out more about the Habonim Dror Machanot (Summer Camps), follow the links below to their respective websites:
| Machaneh Galil | Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York |
| Machaneh Gesher | Eastern Canada |
| Machaneh Gilboa | Western United States |
| Machaneh Miriam | Pacific Northwest (U.S. and Canada) |
| Machaneh Moshava | Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia |
| Machaneh Tavor | Mid-Western United States |