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James Kethen, reporter and
analyst of the Chicago Post, in
his essay on youth summereducaon and acvity, com-
piled a list of the naons top one
hundred summer instuons for
children. The
evaluaon
was based on
many factors,
including:
educaon,
amusement,
trips, ath-
ecs, culinary arts, aquacs, arts
and cras, eco-friendliness, sanita-
on, level of air polluon, and ruach.
The ten highest rated instuons
were: 10) Camp Rayim in Parksville,
New York 9) Hallsted Summer School
n Bangor, Maine 8) Yum-Yum-ABC-
123 daycare in Ralinn, Kentucky 7)
Camp Bonim in Waymart, Pennsylva-
nia 6) Dunwoody Summer Flying
School in Dunwoody, Texas 5) Mo-
hammed Youth Group in Kingstown,
Louisiana 4) Ring Island Day Camp in
Ring Island, Hawaii 3) Spring Lakeuvenile Correconal Center in
Spring Lake, Utah 2) Camp Achdus in
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 1) Coalion
of Young Men Summer Entertain-
ment in Altuna, New Mexico.
Yes, you heard right, your beloved
Camp Achdus was named second
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HURRY! YEARBOOK DEADLINE THIS SUNDAY!
Monday
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to Camp Achdus!
The happy couple
who recently shared veryhappy news with the world
graced Camp Achdus with
their presence! They came
from a foreign country
where English is spoken but
with a different accent. They
were ushered into the camp
with music and dancing. A
gourmet meal of pickled
(deli)cacies, prepared by our
camp matriarch and chefRebbetzin Chana Gold-
stein, imported all the way
from the other side of the
Continent, was served. Yes,
Prince William and Prin-
cess Kate, The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge,
brought their new baby
George Alexander Louis for a
visit. Unfortunately, due to
the sheva brachos ofZevi
and Rivka Carlebach,no-
body noticed the Prince and
Princess. Oh well, maybe
next time.
In other news, Camp
Achdus continued as usual
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Week in ReviewRABBI AKIVA POLLACK
The James KethenReport
Philadelphia Day Camp
Named Nations 2nd Best
BINYOMIN ROSSKAMM, Special Times Ana lys t
VIEW CURRENT AND
PAST ISSUES AT
CAMPACHDUS.COM .
Get Your Achdus Kpage 3
Masmid of the We
Hillel Friedmanpage 4
Guest Speaker:
Rabbi Y. M. Rowner
page 2
1 WEEK IN REVIEW
1 THE KETHEN REPORT
2 STAYING HYDRATED
4 LEARNING LEADERS
5 GIBORIM OF THE WE
6 THIS WEEK IN THE A
6 UPCOMING EVENTS
SPECIAL FEATURES
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What a busyweek this has been!Right off the bat, we had afantastic Sheva Brachos forRabbi & Mrs. Zevi Carlebach. Without a
moment to spare, the older bunks left for
their Grand Trip in the Poconos, and, by the
time they came back on Tuesday, the rest of
camp had already left for their exciting trip
at Bounce-U. Wedneday, Thursday, and Fri-
day were jam-packed with activities because
of an unexpected[?] S&S breakout on
Wednesday. Now, about to go into Shabbos,we can inally catch our collective breath, for
at least enough time to thank our devoted
head staff for all the work they have invested
into producing a great program!
There is a critical question that must be
asked. What, after so much fun and excite-
ment, do we have to show for all our time?
Are we to depart from such a week empty-
handed? Did we experience no growth for a
week?
Baruch Hashem, here, in Camp Achdus, the
answer is a loud and resounding, no!Ourmagniicent Bais Medrash was as vibrant as
always. Even on Monday, when many were
giddy with
anticipation
for the big
trip, the Kol
Torah was
strong and
full of life!
You have
doubts, doyou not? Thanks to our GPS point system, we
have the numbers to back us up. This week
alone, campers in Vuv and Sufaccumulated
1,947 points forfour days of learning (we
missed Tuesday because of the trip), com-pared with last weeks ,0 points inive
days! (For those of you who are keeping
track, that is, on average, 79 more points
per day!) Kol hakavodto the outstanding
campers, counselors, and rebbeim for theirbeautiful hasmada.
This weeks Friday speaker was the re-
nowned orator Rabbi Yisroel Meir Rown-
er, son-in-law of our beloved Rabbi Nul-
man. His highly captivating shmuezempha-
sized that the Torah does not take an all-or-
nothing attitude, and how we must make
small changes in our lives by setting small
goals, and seeing ourselves succeed in at-
taining them, step by step.
Staying HydratedRABBI ZECHARYA MICHELSOHN with Davening, Learning,
Sports and Games. Mr.
Somers taught the chil-
dren how to play the
game of Soccer and Mrs.
D. Lipsky
taught the
children how
to make Hap-
py Smiley
Faces. Each
kid made one;
now bunk
Aleph has
double the
kids. They Yungere divi-
sion of Achdus had a reg-
ular, exciting day, swim-
ming at the Y or playingat the park. The Older
division, in a mature, yet
pleasurable, way, pre-
pared for a fun-illed trip
to Camelbeach Water-
park! Woohoo! Now,
when Camp Achdus goes
on a trip, they GO ON A
TRIP! A three hour water
park visit turned into an
overnight adventure.
Boys from bunks Vuv and
Sufshopped for days buy-
ing tents, insect repellent,
water shoes, Alligators,
and so on and so forth.
Brandon Outlaw,
our resident driver,
commandeered a
Maytav bus and cap-
tained our ragtag
group as we jour-
neyed to the beauti-
ful Pocono Moun-
tains. Rabbi Akiva
(thats me) also
came along in his
Jacket, tie and hat
(Play Ball). After a three
hour tour (A three hour
tour) we inally arrived at
Tobyhanna State Park.
This was a boys trip, of
course, so Toby and Han-
nah went to a different
park for the night. Now it
was called TuviaGoldstein
State Park. (Hey, not eve-
ry joke can be funny). Af-
ter building the tents, col-
lecting irewood, and
making a massive barbe-cue, we changed into our
swimsuits and made our
way to Camelbeach. Hun-
dreds of other campers
were there from many
other camps but no one
came close to the great
middos of Camp Achdus
campers! The water was
absolutely freezing but
the warmth of Jewish chil-
dren enjoying their Sum-
mers heated everything
up! There were massive
slides, massive slides and
even a few massive slides.
Oh, and a wave pool. It
was really great. At 11:45
pm we inally made our
ways back to TuviaGold-
stein State Park and
promptly went to sleep
is possible that a few bo
stayed up in order to
guard the Camp site fro
bears but absolutely no
one told
scary sto-
ries, sang
Kumzitz
songs or
made
Smores an
roasted
Sweet Pot
toes. A sp
cial thank you goes out
Itzik Bass for collecting
about two tons of Fire-
wood. Another specialthanks toAndrew Bren
ner and Simcha Press
who made a siyum and
provided the Smores fo
the Kehilah.
Tuesday
Well, early the next
morning, we made our
way back to the holy lan
of Philadelphia and somhow made it through th
day without falling asle
A.D. actually helped by
leading a really cool A.D
time! Erstwhile, the Jun
ior division of th
greatest camp in
the world, Camp
Achdus, went to
Bounce Universi
where they learn
all of the rudimen
tary science behin
Newtons 3rd law.
Every action has
an equal and opp
site reaction. Due to th
sophistication of the les
sons, the boys were act
ally able to physically
demonstrate their ex-(Connued on pag
2
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panded knowledge of the
science and bounced their
way to the moon. They used
an instrument called amoonbounce in order to per-
form this scientiic experi-
ment. Yishai Yemini
climbed up one of the big-
gest air slides in the world
and Chaim Leib Miller
bounced a massive basket
ball! Yaakov Moshe Gold-
stein took a spin in the hur-
ricane machine and ended
up in Kansas. Dave Lubell
and Binyomin Rosskamm
(Yes, that Binyomin Ros-
skamm,) had a boxing match
with the biggest boxing
gloves you have ever seen!
Wow, that must hurt. It was
a really exciting trip. Lets
just hope the kids dont con-
tinue their experiments on
the walls of Kol Ami. That
would be an experiment in
anger management.
Wednesday
The day seems to start off
pretty normally but as Aesop
said, Dont count your
chickens before they hatch.
Especially Yeshivishe chick-
ens. Or as Eusebius Jerome
said, Dont look a gift horse
in the mouth. Soineh
Week in Review(Continued from Page 2)
YarmulkaThis super-cool yarmulk
was designed by
Rabbi Yaakov Abraham
All the head staff,
and many others,
are already wearing the
To order yours, email
Camp Achdus Yarmulka: $1
With name: $11
best, of the naons summer ins-
tuons! Immediately following
the release of Kethens essay, an
invesgaon was launched to
determine Achduss secret for
near perfecon, as well as to un-
covering their preventave from
possessing rst place. In a press
report following a
lengthy invesgaon,
Albert Hannly, spokes-
man for the invesga-
on team explained:
Among its numerous
advantages, Camp
Achdus boasts thehealthiest canteen in
the connent, oering
calorie free water, in
addion to a strictly
enforced prohibion
on any substance con-
taining even the minut-
est amount of food coloring. Addi-
onally, in response to the inter-
naonal fear of the imminent
global warming, and climate
change crisis, Camp Achdus joined
the worlds united eort to re-
duce the emission of greenhouse
gasses into the atmosphere with
their persistence in under booking
the necessary buses for ecient
transportaon. With regard to
the failure from achieving rst
place, Hannly concluded, The
camps facility lacked ecient
funconing facilies, further-
more a safety hazard recently has
been reported, a regulaon s
grave was discovered right in
front of the buildings main e
trance.
A dinner was held in honor
the camps accomplishments a
the Ritz-Carlton in Abu Dhabi,
UAE. Rabbi Tuvia Go
stein, execuve dire
and sporadic visitor
camp Achdus, arm
the dinners audien
that the camps boa
directors have alrea
commenced the ne
sary procedures to
fy the camps decie
cies. In an interview
Goldsen proclaime
that this is just a ba
step in the camps b
for internaonal fam
Goldsteins closed t
interview by declaring, Toda
the ChicagoPost, tomorrow,
world.
James Kethen Report(continued from sidebar on Page 1)
Matanos Yichyeh. This day is
about to take on a life of its
own.
The camp lines up for Can-
teen but something is wrong.
Smoke is billowing out of the
kitchen door. And you know
what they say where
theres smoke theres ire.
Mordechai Phelps is actual-
ly telling people NOT to come
into the kitchen for once.
Rabbi Akiva starts yelling!
Who went into the kitchen
without permission?! Every-
one to ield number 2! Farfrom the ire and close to
safety! Whats this? Eitan
Goldman is admitting to
starting the ire. Cars are
honking and playing loud
music. What songs are they
playing? Songs and Skits!
S&S! Wow, what a breakout!!
Everyone was fooled, espe-
cially Yaakov Horwitz. Off to
lunch, except for Rabbi Akivawho is taped to the wall by
Binyomin Rosskamm (yes,
thatBinyomin Rosskamm).
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His crime? Hogging the
mike from Binyomin Ros-
skamm (yes, that one).
Lunch is short so that the
bunks can learn
their bunk songs.
And so they do! Each
bunk performs their
songs against the
backdrop of the Kir-
atorium doors. One
is funnier than the
next. The raw talent
of our precious staff
and campers is over-
lowing like a shaken up
Coke can. Which are actual-
ly not allowed in Camp, but
thats another story foranother time. Swim and
Park follow. Yada yada
yada. Who cares? Lets see
those skits and dances al-
ready!
Thursday
Shalom Aleichem Mala-
chei Hashareis! Welcome
Angelic children of Camp
Achdus for another fun-
illed day of beautiful sun-
ny skies! Just because it is
pouring does not mean that
the sun is not shining
above the clouds. If all the
raindrops were lem-
ondrops and gumdrops, oh
what a day this would be.
Id stand outside with my
mouth open wide Ah Ah ah
ah aha aha ah ahaah. (Barney the Purple
Dinosaur).
Rabbi Akiva is not here
again! Hes ired! Yehuda,
take over! Hey wheres
Yehuda? Oh hes also tak-
ing off? Pink eye my foot, I
mean my eye! Oh well, I
guess the new head coun-
selor is Benjy! Yeah!!! Free
meatballs for everyone in
camp! The campers imme-
diately begin to slave over
the dances, songs and sk
their counselors prepare
for them last night. I, as
head counselor, persona
witnessedAndrew
Brenner and Zach
Greenberg dancin
their hearts out th
night before. With
little encourageme
from Mordechai
and Ariel Benila
they didnt stop pr
ticing! What Mesir
Nefesh for the Kla
Swimming worked out
great (It was the bussing
that was the issue.) Oh, w
cant wait until tomorrowwhen we inally perform
Friday
Summers with Som-
mers, Skits, Dance, Songs
Zecharya working on th
very newsletter. Oh, who
shall be the winner? Stay
tuned for next weeks iss
even though we never ta
about last weeks Friday next weeks issue.
Have a great Shabbos
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Kashrus PolicyBy following the link below, please nd
collecons ofkosher supervision organ-
izaons accepted in camp.
hp://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php
Please note that foods with kosher su-
pervision provided by the Triangle-K
maynotbe broughtto camp.
Most Points Week 6
Hillel Friedman (492)
Current High Scores
1)Shloimy Ribiat889 POINTS
2)Hillel Friedman657 POINTS
3)Eliyahu Bucholtz460 POINTS
4)Aharon Nulman427 POINTS
5)Yisrael Arbiv216 POINTS
GEMARA POINTS SYSTEM
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YearbookThe deadline for this years Camp
Achdus yearbook is Sunday!
Campers, counselors, and
all others are welcome to submit.
Please send arcles to
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Simcha Kaplun helped to set up shul kiddush
on shabbos and made telephone bikur cholim visits
to his grandfather!
Mrs. Raizy Kaplun
Boruch Bass went inside to A&C immediately
upon being asked to.
Yaakov Glattwent inside to A&C immediately
upon being asked to.
Yosef Chaim Goldstein stayed inside the cross-
walk the enre me while crossing the street.
Mordechai Mosheyev followed all the rules at
the creek.
Levi Goldman
Chezky Levittgave his own dollar to a man who
came to the house asking for tzedaka!
Chezkys AbbaThe following boys davened extra beaufully on
Wednesday: Simcha Kaplan, Chaim Leib Miller,
Gershy Schwartz, Emanuel Gola, Benny Bell,Meir Ellman, Moshe Jacobs, Nosson Kay.
Yehuda Tenenbaum
Bunk Ches Kuttun davened marvelously on
Wednesday!
Binyomin Rosskamm
Chaim Leib was responsible with mommys keys
and remembered to lock all the doors that he
opened!
Chaim Leib was extra kind and paent with his
younger brothers!
Yona Tzvi did not share a very special secret
surprise with his siblings even though he is so excited
about it!
Mrs. Miller
Yaakov listened to his counselor when he was
told to go back inside!
Efraim ate his breakfast so well even though he
didnt really want to!
Mrs. Glatt
When Bunk Ches Kuttun returned from
Bounce U, they cleaned their bunk room unl it was
spotless even though they were thoroughly red!
Yossi Rosner bentched very, very well, nicely,
beaufully, quite superbly indeed, wow, and Im
geng carried away now...
Yona Tzvi Miller apologized even though it was
very dicult for him!
Yona Tzvi told a teammate, Good job! when
he got out!
Daniel, at rst, forgot to wash and make a bro-
cho before eang his sandwich. But, when he was
reminded, he stopped eang right away, washed,
and made a brocho!
Yossi Rosner bentched very, very well, nicely,
beaufully, quite superbly indeed, wow, and Im
geng carried away now...
Chaim Shvartz got paper towels to wipe up thespill in the bunk room!
Aer many strenuous minutes of trying to pick a
song for the dance for Bunk Ches, the Bunk Ches
Counselors had kimat decided to use Mendy Mu-
sic. But, aer a head sta member referred to this
choice as a cop-out, kindly asked the counselors to
work a lile harder, and falsely accused a certain
sta member of tzidkus (righteousness) and anivus
(humility), all the Bunk Ches counselors rallied to-
gether and constructed a dance which, beezras Ha-
shem, will give pleasure to and excite the aforemen-
oned head sta member!
Chaim Leib played a game and included otherswho he preferred not to include!
A. Logue
Daniel Itzhakov volunteered to switch seats in
order to avoid dispute.
B Rosskamm
Yaakov Glattand Boruch Bass went inside to
A&C immediately upon being asked to!
Mordechai Mosheyev followed all the rules at
the creek!
Yosef Chaim Goldstein stayed inside the cross-walk the enre me while crossing the street!
L. Goldman
Yaakov Horwitz heard Rabbi Goldstein asking,
Who wants to do a mitzvah? and ran to oer his
help!
Yaakov Horwitz saw Rabbi Goldstein picking
trash up o the oor and ran to help!
Chanoch Ganz saw Rabbi Goldstein carrying
siddurim and helped by taking the siddurim!
Tzvi Ganz listened to counselor when told to
listen to hockey rules!
Yaakov Moshe Goldstein Went to check onanother boy who fell while roller skang!
Reuven Rudin chose the non-caeinated soda
so that he wouldnt get too jumpy!
Aaron Badush cleaned the bus aer a trip!
Yehuda Tenenbaum heard that one of the
toilets had been stued with toilet paper and imme-
diately rolled up his sleeves and went to save the
day!
Josh Gordon returned a pen that he borrowed
from me!
Rabbi Goldstein
Lunch had just enand we were ab
to bentch. All pr
ceeded customarily until, su
denly, Rabbi Goldstein walk
purposefully into the room,
Dovi Goldman following exc
edly at his side. Rabbi Gold
stein whispered something
Rabbi Pollacks ear and, in a
moment, Rabbi Pollack und
stood exactly what to do. A
many weeks of hard work,
Rabbi Pollack announced, a
boy has completed his Gevu
Chart! Cheers erupted from
corners of the room and, wi
out delay, little Dovi Goldma
seated on a chair, was lifted
into the air, high above his
friends. Jubilant song sprea
throughout the room as Dov
proud counselors and friend
sang Yamim al yimei Melech
tosif, a song whose lyrics be
on Hashem to grant extende
life and vibrancy to those w
fulill His will so dutifully. S
that day, Achdus campers o
ages walk the hallways and
strut the ields with an idea
their minds: to use our gevu
to vanquish the evil inclinat
that seeks to destroy us. To
remain calm and conident i
the face of adversity, to be
more kind, compassionate,
caring for our friends, to sho
greater respect and, thereby
be more worthy of respect-
of these are our goals, all of
these are our achievements
of these are the life of a devo
Camp Achdus Gibor!
The Completed
Chart!RABBI GEDALIA GOLDSTEINReprinted from the July 26 edion of th
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MONDAY
Sports, A&C, Swimming.
Vuv and Sufare going camping and boang at
French Creek State Park!
Leaving camp:at 2 pm (Monday)
Returning to campat about 2 pm (Tuesday)
Camp will provide:BBQ Supper (Monday) and
Breakfast and Lunch (Tuesday)
You will need: Sleeping bag, pillow, pajamas,
change of clothing, toothbrush/toothpaste/oss,
siddur/tellin, ash light, large water bole, extra
snack, swimsuit, towel, water shoes, bug repellant
sun block (for boang on Tuesday morning).
Campers may not bring electronic devices on this
trip or they will be conscated. Cell phones can
be deposited with a counselor.TUESDAY
A&C, Swimming
WEDNESDAY
Sports, A&C, Swimming, Bunk Alef and Ches
"Camping" Trip - wear pajamas; eat smores!
THURSDAY
A&C, Swimming
FRIDAY
Extreme Nature Hike with Mr. Pechter!
You will need a t-shirt, baseball hat, old sneakers
(that can get very wet) and shorts.
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Upcoming Events
Bunks Alef & Ches Kattan
There are so many ways to
paint a picture, you can use
a brush, a sponge, your n-gers and even a straw. A straw????
How do you paint with a straw?
You mean you use the straw like a
brush? NO, we use the straw to blow
the paint on the paper. We started
with just 4 colors. blue, red, yellow
and green. We placed drops of color
on our papers and blew the paint so
that the colors all mixed. It was fun
watching the paint move on the pa-
per. What beauful abstract
painngs!
Bunk Ches GadolThis week the boys made a fun
project with Perler beads (did you
know that perler is the Danish word
for beads?). There were stars, ow-
ers, circles, and even some animals.
Some of the boys took
their me to really make
an intricate paern. In
fact there were a few boys
that did not want to leave
Arts & Cras! Aer de-
signing their projects they
had to carefully walk over
to the ironing board to get
them fused. Unfortunate-
ly, some of the beads did
fall o and they had to be
reset. The end result was
worth it!
MRS. DORIS LIPSKY This Week in the Arts
Itzik Bass collected tons of
wood for the bonre on the
Camelbeach trip!
Rabbi Pollack
Moshe Badush was very helpful
when his lile brother needed his
help!
Morah Chani Goldstein
Yaakov Horwitz oered to take
responsibility for another boy who
could only come on the Camelbeach
trip with a helper.
Y. Tenenbaum
Eli Bell gave his balloon to his
brother, Yaakov!
Yaakov Bell hugged his lile
sister when she was crying!
Mrs. Bell
Shloimy and Yehoshua have
been great helping out around the
house and geng ready for the new
baby. They came to the hospital to
visit and were so quiet and polite that
all the nurses were talking about
them. What a kiddush Hashem!
A Proud New MommyReuven Rudin and Noam Gold
cleaned up the bunks mess in the
bunkroom!
Yoisef Kahn
Yoni Galen was eang a choco-
late graham cracker in front of anoth-
er boy, the other boy wanted one, so
he brought one in for that boy the
next day!
Rabbi Goldstein
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