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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out Camp Airy (for boys) and Camp Louise (for girls). They're Jewish overnight camps, but very light on the Judaism.[/quote]

I know a secular Jewish woman who works there. It’s definitely about identity and not religion. [/quote]

Jew here whose kids go to regular religious school at a Conservative shul. Airy and Louise are great. We didn't want a super-religious camp because that is not who we are at home. We don't keep kosher, we don't go to synagogue regularly although we do go on High Holidays and keep those and Passover strictly, and we want our kids to be comfortable with services, read Hebrew, and have bnai mitzvot. Airy and Louise are terrific at emphasizing identity without strict religious ritual.

The only thing I'd say to OP is you can totally do all these things, but unless you are really turned off by the idea of religious school and bar mitzvah, consider it for your kids' sake so they are equipped with that knowledge as adults, should they want it. Some of the Reform or Reconstructionist or Humanist synagogues are very progressive and try to relate religious learning and study to the modern world far more than, say, my Conservative synagogue does. It might be worthwhile. I guess I don't hang with a ton of completely secular Jews (even though I consider myself pretty secular) but I know that when I was dating, I wasn't into guys who were nominally Jewish but had never set foot in a synagogue or were uncomfortable with the idea of religion, didn't ever go to services, didn't want to raise their kids Jewish because being Jewish was just a label and maybe eating chicken soup every so often. They were so secular that being Jewish meant nothing to them. They celebrated Christmas with more interest than any Jewish holiday. Of course, if that is what your family is aiming for, then go for it. But if it's not, consider that aspect.[/quote]

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