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Dear Parents, Campers, Counselors, and Extended Etta Family, We can't believe the summer is over -- must be that "time flying when you're having fun" thing! We thank all of you for your amazing support. We also thank each and every camper and counselor for being such a joy, bringing camp alive and making it the incredible experience that it was. Here is our End-of-Summer video. Fun, funny, moving, and inspiring, we think it's really worth your time to watch, and forward to others: 
Daily Recaps: Monday, Aug 1: Our last Monday of camp got off to an amazing start as we welcomed a new camper to our Camp Avraham Moshe family. We are so happy to have Benjamin (Benni) Sperber with us here at camp and his presence made T'filot that much more meaningful. After spirited dancing, we enjoyed a scrumptious snack and then decorated Birkat Habayit (Blessing for the Home) door hangings. We also prepared for our annual talent show which we cannot wait a moment more for! After lunch we enjoyed swimming and doing water aerobics. We can't wait for the talent show tomorrow and can't believe there are only three days left of camp. Tuesday, Aug 2: Our talent show was even better than American Idol and America's Got Talent! We had five professional judges in Ruthie Bloch, Avi Heyman, Natan Naboudi, Elianna Mellon and Yehuda Rosen, and they gave rave reviews of the amazing talent exhibited by our campers and staff. We had incredible solos galore, an original Peter Pan production, creative dances, and one camper even sang a song in Russian! It was one of the greatest shows of all time and we want thank everyone who participated in making it such a magical event! Our campers cherished one of their last days in the pool and closing circle was even more special than usual. We can't wait for Israeli Day tomorrow. Wednesday, Aug 3: Israeli Day got off to an amazing start as we learned Israeli dancing with Tova and Nechama after extremely spirited T'filot. Our morning consisted of making hummus from scratch and learning about different Israeli food in the process. Of course we enjoyed eating the hummus, as well as felafel, pita, Israeli salad and much more! A huge todah rabah to Leah Schachter and the CITS (Malkie, Daniella, Sarah, and Hasya) for making this such an amazingly tasty and fun event! We also learned a new Israeli game in sports with Nechama and made our very own replica Kotel where we could put personal prayers inside just like the Kotel in Jerusalem. We had swimming for the last day this summer and of course made the most of it! Thursday, Aug 4: We can't believe today was our last day of camp. The summer flew by so fast that it feels like just yesterday we gathered for the first day of camp. Our T'filot this morning were the best of the summer! Our session of dancing and singing after T'filot was the most energetic of the summer and we are so grateful that Dr. Held joined us for this experience and even danced with us too! After we caught our breath from this excitement, everyone got to share their favorite memory of camp in a fun activity that left everyone with a friendship bracelet to remember all the amazing friendships formed and molded during the summer. After lunch we gathered together for our closing program which included Yasher Koach awards, an amazing slide show (which everyone got a copy to take home to watch during the year) and a picture frame with each camper and their counselor(s). We want to give a huge todah rabah to Meira (Held) Feinman who produced the greatest slide show our camp has ever seen! We want to thank her for all her hard work throughout the summer which helped make our camp experience so meaningful. We ended the summer as we began, by singing our camp song "Rosa Rosa" and by NOT saying goodbye... instead we said L'hitraot (see you soon) because we can't wait to see you back here at Camp Avraham Moshe next summer! Thank you for such an amazing summer :) Thank you! Have a Good Shabbos / Shabbat Shalom! Love, Josh & Leah P.S. For more pics of camp, go to |
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