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Recipe for Jewish Sleep-away Camp

July 25, 2013 at 7:39 am · Filed under stories and tagged: , , , ,

Jewish Sleepaway Camp

< by Annie of Third Wave Domesticity >

Recipe for Jewish Sleep-away Camp:

  • 1 Pair of Birkenstocks
  • 7 tie dye t-shirts (if you can’t find at store, you can make at camp)
  • 7 pairs of soffees
  • 3 ankle bracelets made from hemp
  • 2 giant rolls of hemp
  • 200 kids singing classic 1960s pop hits as Sabbath prayers
  • 1 Remote location Jews would never actual travel to under normal circumstances
  • 1 blob
  • 10 Australian counselors
  • 5 New Zealander counselors
  • 1 bucket of tears
  • 1 cranky resistant Jewish teenager
  • 1 lake
  • 1 game of color war
  • 4 weeks of tradition

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