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Food at Camp

Food at Camp

If your camper is nervous about what there is to eat at camp, have no fear! Our incredible kitchen team is ready to make sure this summer is delicious! Below is a sample schedule for a two-week stay at camp: [button...

What to Bring to Camp

What to Bring to Camp

Packing For Camp Not sure what your camper needs for their stay at camp? Check out this sample packing list. Campers staying for longer sessions (Shomrim, Etzim, Rishonim, Maccabiah, Hagigah, Hevrah, Avodah, or CIT) get laundry done every two weeks and should adjust...

Meet our Summer Leadership Team

Meet our Summer Leadership Team

Rabbi Allie (she/her), Jessie (she/her), Aviva (she/her), Rachel (she/her), and Danny (he/him) are so excited for the best summer at camp yet!

Touches of Torah: Vayeitzei

Touches of Torah: Vayeitzei

by Rabbi Allie Fischman Camp Director This week's parashah, Vayeitzei in the book of Genesis, gives us so much to think about: Jacob's dream with the angels and his marrying two of Laban's daughters when he's tricked into marrying Leah only to work and wait seven more...

Facing Fear and Jumping In

Facing Fear and Jumping In

by Jackson Mercer CIT Advisor '16, Rosh Shira '16 & '17 Originally Written Summer 2016 Camp is about facing your fears and jumping in. I grew up terrified of water. In all my years at camp, I never went down the waterslide or joined for breicha until my third year...

All-Gender Housing: A small step toward gender-inclusivity

All-Gender Housing: A small step toward gender-inclusivity

To be part of making changes at camp to create an even safer and more accepting space is a gratifying and meaningful experience. Yet there is still work to do. I am confident that staff members and campers will continue to step up to carry out the next steps in our action plan and grow it further. After all, each of us can change the world for the next generation of campers.  

A Warm Welcome Home

A Warm Welcome Home

This weekend, we welcomed over 200 alumni, current camper families and friends of camp back home to Porter Creek Road – some folks joined us for an entire Shabbaton and many spent their Sunday together with us at camp. With CIT classes represented from the 1970s all...

Avodah 2022 – Impact at Camp and Beyond

Avodah 2022 – Impact at Camp and Beyond

by Judah Hoffenberg, Avodah 2022 Advisor The summer of 2022 saw Camp Newman’s Avodah class achieve an impact on Camp and the greater world around it far greater than their small number might’ve entailed. The Avodahniks chose to dedicate their time to four separate...

Environmentalism and Ecology at Camp

Environmentalism and Ecology at Camp

by Rachel Mellman, Camp Newman Alum & Marketing Associate Among the towering redwoods, generations of campers have made lifelong friendships, personal discoveries, and everlasting memories. Camp Newman comes from a legacy of tikkun olam, social action – our roots...

Youngest Campers, Biggest Heroes

Bonim: Building Connections, Becoming Mensches by Rachel Chancellor, Bonim Dalet Rosh A long time ago ... well, not that long ago, just this summer... in a galaxy far, far away ... on Porter Creek Road ... our Bonim campers began their Camp Newman journey. For many of...