Dance
Director: Lauren Greene
Areas of Focus
- Learn warm-ups, stretch-techniques, balance, extensions and proper form.
- Develop a multifaceted physicality through training in dance techniques.
- Apply a variety of value systems, aesthetics, and approaches to performing.
- Working on new dance skills and combinations.
- Our curriculum is designed to introduce and explore new genres of dance ranging from ballet and jazz to hip hop during each session.
Goal
In our supportive and caring environment, campers with a strong interest in dance are empowered to try new things and push themselves to grow and improve in dance beyond a typical dance class. Campers are encouraged to dance motivated by their own goals, whether they want to focus on specific skills with an eye on their next competition or simply grow in their love of dance as recreation and creative expression.
Ceramics/Jewelry Making
Director: Lisa Kops
Areas of Focus
- Enjoying the creative process
- Each camper will create their own mosaic challah board
- Ceramic techniques
- Jewelry making process
- Staining Glass
Goal
To allow each camper’s creative spirit to flourish while creating a beautiful challah board that their families will be able to use every shabbos for years to come.
Gymnastics
Director: Rifka Miretsky
Areas of Focus
- Flexibility
- Stretching/Warm Up routines
- Trampolines
- Creating and perfecting a routine that incorporates many different gymnastics techniques
Goal
To work together to create a routine that will be performed in front of the whole camp at the gymnastics show, while developing a multitude of gymnastics skills
Basketball Clinics
Director: Donald Hennie
Areas of Focus
Teamwork
Trusting and believing in each teammate to work together as a team
Improvement of basketball skills including:
- Conditioning
- Hustle
- Triple Threat
- Layups
- Footwork
- Shooting Form
- Ball Handling
- Passing
- Basic Cuts & Screens
- Box Outs
- Rebounding
- Outlet Passes
Goal
To motivate each individual to be the best camper and basketball player they can be.
Football Clinics
Director: Mike Dube
Areas of Focus
- Specific Position Fundamentals
- Basic And In-depth Knowledge Of Football
- Athletic Fundamentals
- Linear acceleration
- Maximum velocity
- Lateral movement
- Multi-directional movement and agility
- Conditioning
- Explosive resistance
- Jumping and plyometrics
- Efficient power development
- Correct motor patterns
- Basic Skills (i.e. Passing, Catching, Running)
- The right way to catch a football
- How to properly throw a football
- How to play defense in football
- How to read an offense in football
- Advancement Of Skills For All Positions
Goal
To build skills, speed, conditioning, strength, in every aspect of Football. While working on becoming an overall better football player, the kids will be learning the value of being on a team.
Soccer Clinics
Director: Yoav Cochav
Areas of Focus
- Teamwork – working together as a team in soccer
- Finishing
- Ball Mastery
- Dribbling
- Agility, speed and quickness
Goal
To help players achieve a higher level of technical proficiency and ball-handling creativity. The goal is to move every player from their current skill level to the next level of competitive soccer while building confidence and enjoyment for the game.
Hockey Clinics
Director: Rabbi David Beitler
Areas of Focus
- Conditioning
- Stick Handling
- Balance & Footwork
- Passing & Receiving
- Power Plays & Penalty Kills
- Shooting
- Goal Keeping
- Formation Drills
Goal
The primary objective of the program is to provide a vehicle for player to enhance development of fundamental skills required to play the game of hockey.
Tennis Clinics
Director: Anup Rastawar
Areas of Focus
- Footwork
- How to Volley
- Forehand and Backhand Serving
- Overhead Strokes
- Net Play
- Volley
- Tennis Strategy
Goal
Besides for learning the fundamentals of tennis and advancing each participants tennis skills, the goal of this elective is to help the campers develop a love for tennis and want to play it year-round.
Drama
Director: Barbra Solomon
Areas of Focus
- Stage Presence
- Voice Projection
- Acting
- Set And Costume Design
- Production Coordination
Goal
Besides for helping campers learn the various aspects of drama, this elective will help campers to build more confidence in themselves.
Baking
Director: Geulah Deykan
Areas of Focus
- Baking skills and techniques
- Measuring
- Kneading dough
- Making Challah
- Cookies
- Mastering a dessert each camper loves to make
Goal
To develop techniques that allow campers to master baking skills that will allow them to be able to bake tasty desserts for their families when they come home from camp.
Water-Skiing
Director: Boaz Ben Chorin
Areas of Focus
- Perseverance- Stressing to the campers that no matter how many times they fall, if they keep trying they will succeed.
- Techniques
- Balance
- Safety
- Turning
- Stopping
- Beginner Tricks
Goal
Not only to teach the how to water-ski, but to show them how crucial it is to get back on your feet in life, no matter how many times you might get knocked down.
Fishing
Director: Desbe Greenstein
Areas of Focus
Mastery over the various steps of fishing including:
- Putting on Bait
- Connecting the hook
- Preparing the proper line needed
- How to cast one’s line
- How to cook one’s caught fish
Goal
To teach campers everything they need to prepare a delicious fishy meal, from start to finish, including catching and cooking one’s fish.
Photography
Director: Raffi Spitzer
Areas of Focus
- Mechanics of the camera
- Learning how to use different lenses, apertures, etc. in order to capture the perfect shot
- Photos in Nature
- How to pick the perfect background
- Editing our photos with Photoshop
- Creating slideshows with the pictures we take
Goal
To develop skills that will allow us to capture picturesque photos using the new techniques learned. The skills we will develop will last a lifetime.
Videography
Director: Mike Sinnreich
Areas of Focus
- Properly using a tripod
- Mechanics of the camera
- How to find the best angle
- Creating a montage, picking the perfect music
- How to cut videos
- Theme-based videos culminating with an individual video montage for each camper
Goal
To give campers the tools necessary to take high-quality videos while building skills to use a camera in a multitude of ways. Campers taking this elective will leave the summer feeling confident using top-notch cameras.
Paintball
Director: Yehuda Stone
Areas of Focus
- Safety with the gun
- Shooting Accuracy
- Teamwork- working together in team based games
- How to hide
- Knowing when to attack
- Camouflage Techniques
- Learn how to extract a hostage by simulating a real hostage situation
- Training exercises used in the IDF
Goal
To build camaraderie with fellow campers through training exercises real units use to build bonds that last a lifetime. Campers will also become intimately familiar with how to use the paintball gun and gain an edge on the paintball course.
Culinary
Director: Alisa Pelikow
Areas of Focus
- Learning a vast array of culinary skills and techniques
- Hands-on instruction using many cooking staples
- Seasoning
- Measuring
- Healthy cooking
- Having campers each perfect a dish they love to make
- Safety in the Kitchen
Goal
To develop techniques that allow campers to master skills in the kitchen that will allow them to be able to cook meals for their families when they come home from camp.
