by ayoakum | Jul 28, 2017 | From the Blog
By Alaina Yoakum, Director of Marketing & Communications Art, as we all know, can be a powerful means of expression, and a way to highlight the unspoken. Nowhere is this more evident in how our campers recently used illustration to convey their thoughts and...
by ayoakum | Jul 28, 2017 | From the Blog
By Alaina Yoakum, Director of Marketing & Communications Years ago when my kids were little, prayer was inaccessible to them. They would often pray in our synagogue, but I could only get them to do so for short spans and they didn’t often understand the...
by ayoakum | Jul 21, 2017 | From the Blog
By Rabbi Cheryl Rosenstein, Temple Beth El of Bakersfield A month ago, I announced the beginning of our local Jewish renaissance. Newly returned from my annual stint at Camp Newman, I am even more convinced, not only of the veracity of that statement, but of its...
by ayoakum | Jul 21, 2017 | From the Blog
By Alaina Yoakum, Director of Marketing & Communication When Lena McQuade was 13, she couldn’t wait to have her Bat Mitzvah – but her conservative congregation in San Luis Obispo just wasn’t ready to have a girl on the bimah reading Torah. “It was a time where I...
by ayoakum | Jul 14, 2017 | From the Blog
By Faculty Artist, Relli Siegel Four years ago, my kids came to URJ Camp Newman for the very first time. We didn’t know how it would be for them, but when we picked them up on the last day, standing by their new life-long friends, they were glowing with light...
