Jewish Sleepaway Camp in Maine Opening in July

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Another Jewish sleep away camp in NE, Ramah, just announced that they’re closed.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m really happy to read this! Our DS is hoping to attend another sleepaway Maine Camp, and Camp Modin’s model for Covid19 screening and containment gives me hope that his camp will also open. We are supposed to hear news next week.


So happy for the kids!!!!!!

Sounds very risky. I doubt you will be happy for the kids if everyone gets corvid19. Look at the uptick in cases in maryland when they opened a little bit.

You know, I would be willing to take this risk. The article outlines all of the safety precautions and pre-screenings they will have in place. This camp went through Swine Flu and meningitis outbreaks (mentioned in article) and successfully handled those. My DC’s mental health and isolation from friends is what I am more worried about right now. We have been faithfully adhering to stay at home and social distancing rules.

Don’t forget measles.

Honestly, listing out all the non-pandemic disease outbreaks a camp has endured isn’t really a great way to show they are prepared to knowingly handle another.

I wonder how many unvaccinated kids they have that there was a measles outbreak. That doesn't make me feel confident that they or their families understand health risks.

That measles outbreak was in 1992 — almost 30 years ago! I would think that parents and the camp directors , if they were even there at the time, have greatly enhanced immunization requirements for campers and staff.

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Let’s check again Jun 30. I plan to retire a multimillionaire by July too.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s check again Jun 30. I plan to retire a multimillionaire by July too.

Do you feel better about yourself for being such a downer? At least the camp is giving kids hope to return to some normalcy.

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Mazel Tov!

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I wish I had signed my kids up for this camp...

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I had signed my kids up for this camp...

It looks like a really nice camp.

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Modin is a private for profit camp not governed by an umbrella organization. It’s is an expensive camp. They do not offer financial aid. What that means in this case is that their camp population is extremely wealthy. Their goal is not to provide a jewish camp experience for all children. If you do a search for Modin Colorwar break on your tube you can see some of the spare no expense activities of the camp.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the camps decision. However I think it’s very interesting that all the jewish camps that are run by the major movements have cancelled. They are obviously concerned about the ability to keep kids safe. Modin seems to think it can keep the kids safe at camp. I hope everyone that attends has a fantastic summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Modin is a private for profit camp not governed by an umbrella organization. It’s is an expensive camp. They do not offer financial aid. What that means in this case is that their camp population is extremely wealthy. Their goal is not to provide a jewish camp experience for all children. If you do a search for Modin Colorwar break on your tube you can see some of the spare no expense activities of the camp.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the camps decision. However I think it’s very interesting that all the jewish camps that are run by the major movements have cancelled. They are obviously concerned about the ability to keep kids safe. Modin seems to think it can keep the kids safe at camp. I hope everyone that attends has a fantastic summer.

You seem to think having wealth is bad. How do you know they don’t offer financial aid, if asked? We don’t have a child who attends this camp, but I would never think to criticize them for charging fees that are commiserate with the type of camp staffing, activities, services and facilities that the camp provides its campers and their families.

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Anonymous wrote:Modin is a private for profit camp not governed by an umbrella organization. It’s is an expensive camp. They do not offer financial aid. What that means in this case is that their camp population is extremely wealthy. Their goal is not to provide a jewish camp experience for all children. If you do a search for Modin Colorwar break on your tube you can see some of the spare no expense activities of the camp.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the camps decision. However I think it’s very interesting that all the jewish camps that are run by the major movements have cancelled. They are obviously concerned about the ability to keep kids safe. Modin seems to think it can keep the kids safe at camp. I hope everyone that attends has a fantastic summer.

You seem to think having wealth is bad. How do you know they don’t offer financial aid, if asked? We don’t have a child who attends this camp, but I would never think to criticize them for charging fees that are commiserate with the type of camp staffing, activities, services and facilities that the camp provides its campers and their families.

No. I don’t think having wealth is bad. I’m merely pointing out that this camp caters to an exclusive group of people that have the financial ability to quarantine.

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Anonymous wrote:Modin is a private for profit camp not governed by an umbrella organization. It’s is an expensive camp. They do not offer financial aid. What that means in this case is that their camp population is extremely wealthy. Their goal is not to provide a jewish camp experience for all children. If you do a search for Modin Colorwar break on your tube you can see some of the spare no expense activities of the camp.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the camps decision. However I think it’s very interesting that all the jewish camps that are run by the major movements have cancelled. They are obviously concerned about the ability to keep kids safe. Modin seems to think it can keep the kids safe at camp. I hope everyone that attends has a fantastic summer.

You seem to think having wealth is bad. How do you know they don’t offer financial aid, if asked? We don’t have a child who attends this camp, but I would never think to criticize them for charging fees that are commiserate with the type of camp staffing, activities, services and facilities that the camp provides its campers and their families.

No. I don’t think having wealth is bad. I’m merely pointing out that this camp caters to an exclusive group of people that have the financial ability to quarantine.

Well, the bolded sentence above clearly struck me as being critical of this camp and its wealthy campers.

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Anonymous wrote:Modin is a private for profit camp not governed by an umbrella organization. It’s is an expensive camp. They do not offer financial aid. What that means in this case is that their camp population is extremely wealthy. Their goal is not to provide a jewish camp experience for all children. If you do a search for Modin Colorwar break on your tube you can see some of the spare no expense activities of the camp.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the camps decision. However I think it’s very interesting that all the jewish camps that are run by the major movements have cancelled. They are obviously concerned about the ability to keep kids safe. Modin seems to think it can keep the kids safe at camp. I hope everyone that attends has a fantastic summer.

You seem to think having wealth is bad. How do you know they don’t offer financial aid, if asked? We don’t have a child who attends this camp, but I would never think to criticize them for charging fees that are commiserate with the type of camp staffing, activities, services and facilities that the camp provides its campers and their families.

No. I don’t think having wealth is bad. I’m merely pointing out that this camp caters to an exclusive group of people that have the financial ability to quarantine.

Well, the bolded sentence above clearly struck me as being critical of this camp and its wealthy campers.

It was not meant as a criticism. It is a statement of fact. Every camp has a goal, objective, mission. The goal of the non profit federation and movement camps is to provide a jewish camp experience to any jewish child. They are structured that way and have development offices to support that mission. In contrast, the goal of a private camp is whatever the owners want it to be. Their camp; their rules. Neither model is better or worse; they're different. In this case, it means that camps that pull from diverse exonomic backgrounds and answer to multiple organizations are having to take a close look at what they can and cannot offer. Private camps are not subject to multiple organizational stakeholders. They are only accountable to the parents that are paying the tuition. Again, if the owners and parents are comfortable, then good for them. Modin offers amazing programming and I'm sure the kids that attend will have a fantastic summer.

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I do this Modin not having a board of directors probably made it easier for them to open. I went to a camp similar to Modin and it was a great camp. In the case of my camp, it ran a completely separate program free program for kids from low income families who would be the first in their families to go to college.

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We've been looking at this camp as an alternative for our two boys: we are not comfortable that they will do excursions outside the camp. It doesn't make sense even if they go to parks outdoors, they are still increasing exposure risks in a risky season to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:We've been looking at this camp as an alternative for our two boys: we are not comfortable that they will do excursions outside the camp. It doesn't make sense even if they go to parks outdoors, they are still increasing exposure risks in a risky season to begin with.

Did you read their Message re opening this summer? There will be no offsite trips this summer, for anyone.