Rubins at Camp Visiting Day - July 2007
Camp Emunah (Greenfield Park) Camp Gan Israel (Parksville)
along Route 52 in the Catskill Mountains

Gan Israel is the very same camp where Rabbi Mendel spent many happy years as a camper, so it's always a pleasure to come back and relive childhood memories. Raizy spent several summers at Camp Emunah, and her mother, Mrs. Galperin, spends her summers there as she runs the Camp Office, plus she has two siblings in camp there, so it's a great opportunity to visit family and enjoy camp spirit.

This character is dubbed "Moshe Yukel" and each morning the Camp Gan Israel program directors tack on a sign with that day's sports activities. Rabbi Galperin visiting sons Shimon (Learning Teacher) and Mendel (Bar-Mitzvah Division Camper) at Camp Gan Israel.
The Camp Gan Israel waiters want to be tipped on Visiting Day. So they came up with these clever signs drawing attention to their cause. YouTip, iTip - we all tip the waiters. There were other gimmicks as well, but these signs were so cute, we couldn't help but take a picture.
Uncles Shimon & Mendel Galperin show Moshe and Sara Rubin the "Borei Pri HaAdama" Garden planted at their Camp Gan Israel as part of a study unit on food blessings. This is the porch at Camp Emunah for Girls in Greenfield Park NY. Years ago in the 1950's, the Lubavitcher Rebbe visited this camp grounds and spoke to the campers from this very same porch.
Danyel Goldberg ('07) is studying at the ILTSP (now known as ILTSE) Program in the Catskills, located above the hill from Camp Emunah where Raizy's mom works the office during the summer. Danyel and a fellow student at the ILTSE program, and two of the Madrichot with whom they study all kinds of things and have great times together.
Kelder's Farm is an old haunt of ours on the way back home on Route 209. We went to see the animals, climb on the wooden outdoor toys, but this time couldn't do any u-Pick. Not enough time. Bassie is growing up quick. She's now comfortable behind the wheel of an oversized, super-charged 4x4 off-road vehicle. Actually, it was hard to get her off of it.

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