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September 17: Annual Dinner
Please mark your calendar with the date of our dinner, September 17, to be held at the Talon Air terminal, Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY. Details and invitation to follow.
From the Desk of our Head Counselor, Etti
 Hey Everyone,
I would like to personally welcome camper and staff to B.G.I. camp of 2008. Each week this summer there will be an overall theme. Each day will be focused on another part of the theme for that week. This week’s theme was Jewish Identity.” So each day we learned a little bit more about it. Monday was our Jewish name. Tuesday we learned about our Jewish birthday. Wednesday we focused on our Jewish clothing, and Thursday was an awesome trip day!!!
This first week at Berkowitz Gan Israel turned out to be a great success with all the enthusiasm and great spirit from everyone. We had a lot of fun and amazing activities throughout each day. Some bunks made; puzzles with their bunk name, sticky icky GAK, Limbo,  Tug of war, and musical chairs. These are just a few activities that we had participated in and there are so many more. On Monday and Wednesday we had a very exciting time in the pool. We had some time to go cool off from all the running and excitement in camp. We also had a great time flying around the gym with our new sports trainer, Brian. We had a great time and ran out of all our energy learning lots of cool new games.
On Tuesday we had a very special visitor from Chai Lifeline. They introduced the wonderful Swim-a-thon that each camper can participate and receive really cool prizes in the end. We want to encourage all the campers to do their best to get sponsors for all their laps they will do. (Note: Those who can not swim can walk across the pool and it will count as a lap.) I can’t wait to see all the campers coming to me with their ideas of how  many laps they think they will do!!! On Wednesday we had a very cool activity of Yoga. It was so nice to have some time to breathe and stretch our bodies from such a long, tiring, and exciting day!! We also made learned about boys wearing Kipa’s and girls lighting candles. So each boy had the chance to create and decorate his own Kip; while the girls had a chance to make their very own beautiful candle stick. Thursday we went to BOOMERS!! There we had fun running around on the slides, go karts, bumper cars and loads more. We really did have a splendid week.
 This week we started a great program of Bunk Competition. We have a bulletin board with each of the bunks names and the bunk first in line, loudest cheering, (I would like to give lots of credit to all the bunks for their cheering; especially the Mitzvah Mountains really help a lot. You guys are awesome) helping others, bentching nicely are all ways each bunk to receive points. At the end of next week the bunk with most points will receive a prize!! Good Luck to all!
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Rabbi Weinberg has taken the Hebrew School and camp to new levels of professionalism and educational excellence. He also established the Bar/Bat Mitzvah clubs which have become hugely popular. Countless people consult with him on personal matters and see in him a wise, trusted friend and rabbi. Personally, he has become a good friend whom I can count on and discuss matters with. I also feel much less guilty leaving for a Shabbat now and than, as I know I can count on him to deliver an inspiring, meaningful sermon.
