SAC Day 8: Color War!
Queridos Madres y Padres, Yesterday started off with delicious pancakes made by our amazing kitchen crew, Danny, Yael, Eden, Miriam and Ayelet, and listening to a Disney music playlist. Then the campers went on to their regular activities, like Archery, Ziplining, Art, Sports, and more. What the kids didn’t know was that all of the […]
SAC Day 7
Queridos Madres y Padres, We had an incredible Tisha B’av, where CITs shared personal family stories from the Holocaust, of brave and loss. At the end of the day, campers headed to the beach for singing on the Pacific Ocean and then enjoyed a delicious break-fast. We will circle back to pre-Tisha B’av, where we […]
Tisha B’Av 2017
Queridos Madres y Padres, In respect of Tisha B’Av today I will be sharing today’s events, and we will be posting yesterday’s blog and pictures tomorrow. Last night, after hydrating all day and eating a hearty meal, followed by eggs and lentils, the entire camp met for Arvit, followed by the Sephardic Tisha B’Av service, which […]
SAC Day 6
Queridos Madres y Padres, After coming off of Shabbat, the campers started Sunday with sessions, where the leaders went over the Rambam’s concepts of love and fear of G-d and how we interpret this from a Sephardic perspective. To bring these concepts to life, the teachers brought various props and action-oriented games and stories along […]
SAC 2017 Shabbat #1
Queridos Madres y Padres, For today’s Shabbat blog I interviewed SAC’s Sephardic Educator, Aryeh Chacham Greenberg about his personal highlights from Shabbat. This is what he said. Friday afternoon I, along with the Eruv crew, was busy working until the last possible minute. We have never been to this campsite, which made the eruv setup […]
SAC Day 3
Queridos Madres y Padres, I heard so many campers telling me that yesterday was their favorite day at camp, ever! First thing in the morning, right after Shachrit, the B1 and B2 boys left camp to go horseback riding on the beach! Meanwhile, everybody else at camp had their own busy schedule, starting with sessions […]
SAC Day 2
Queridos Madres y Padres, What a day it has been! We started off the morning with a pre-Shacharit “Cocoa la Boca,” an optional event where the kids wake up early to drink hot chocolate and learn about the Rambam. This was our most popular one in all of SAC history; there were almost 70 kids […]
First day at SAC 2017!
Queridos Madres y Padres, The kids are finally here! Although we’ve only had a half-day with them, we’ve already done so much. One kid actually said, “It feels like we’ve been here for a week!” When the campers from the first bus started rolling off they immediately found their counselors, and started doing icebreakers with […]
August 15th, 2016 – SAC’s Got Talent!
Today, the sun was bright, the songs were loud and the smiles plentiful. After enjoying a pancake breakfast and learning about the tradition of the Avraham Se’ev with Chacham and Papoo, Al Maimon – kids scurried off to a day filled with SACtivities. Some of them included: wading in the river with Quinn, making challah […]
August 14th, 2016 – Our Last Shabbat of SAC 2016
Our last Shabbat of camp was filled with singing, friendship and relaxation. We had a morning of Tefila, sponsored by Jack and Adina Almo, in memory of Velma Almo Z”L, where many of the campers read Kriyat Torah for the camp, and Moises Tache read the maftir, while others were engaged in Parsha Talks with Julia Owen. […]
