March 23, 2021
TONY – “ How were you guys planning on beating that?” CAP – “Together.” TONY – “We’ll lose.” CAP – “Then we’ll do that together, too.” In my new role...
February 22, 2021
It is almost March. We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary since all of us moved daily lives into our homes to ride out one of the most challenging times of our lives. A...
February 12, 2021
We are delighted to announce that Ryan Bocchino will be our new Ranch Camp Director! Ryan joined the JCC Ranch Camp team in 2016 as the Ranch Camp Associate Director and started making an...
January 21, 2021
If the question of the day was, ‘If not now, when?’, the answer is, now. If the theme of the day was to ‘Defy your limits and define yourself,’ the defying and the defining...
November 17, 2020
It seems safe to say that the past nine months have been nothing like we imagined when we started 2020. We have adopted new buzzwords… unprecedented, pivoting, uncertain times. Our work and school vernacular...
July 7, 2020
Evie (Rosenbaum) Cohen & Morey Cohen Years at Camp: Evie – 1953 & 1961 & Morey 1953-1964 Evie – I was a camper in ’53 and ’61. Morey – I was a camper from...
July 1, 2020
We know that our campers, staff, and families alike count down the months, days, and minutes until the start of Ranch Camp each summer. In Judaism we constantly lean on text to help us...
March 17, 2020
Shortly after I started as Director of Ranch Camp, I fell in love. I was totally committed. I was building a program and a camp with my own children in mind, knowing that they...
February 18, 2020
I spent most of my formative years at summer camp, with some pretty formative people, in some pretty formative places. Camp gave me the power to be creative, think independently, and defy my own...
