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Hi Herzl Family! Flag was a little louder – everyone thinks everything is judged…if only we could convince them the “boring” parts of camp (the ones they don’t realize are […]

Hi Herzl Family! Based on my last night post… this morning the sun was a little brighter, the grass was a little greener, and the water of Devils Lake was […]

Dear Herzl Camp Families – Shabbat has come and gone. Same with Havdalah. And I am officially very late in posting this blog. Havdalah has always been my favorite prayer. […]

Hi Herzl Family! All is right with the world up here at Machaneh Herzl…15 Israeli campers are sleeping under the Herzl stars tonight! They arrived this evening and our Kadima […]

Hi Herzl Family! It was another magical Shabbat here in paradise! There’s a gabillion things I could tell you about over the last two days. It still amazes me (and […]

Hi Herzl Family! On Thursday mornings we do an all camp sleep-in and push flag to 9:00 (as opposed to 8:15). Of course I’m wide awake at 6:30 because it’s […]

Hi Herzl Family! As you walk across Camp from the flag circle toward the North end, you cross this little bridge that was built back in 1992 by the precursor […]

Hi Herzl Family! Remember the first night of second session when I said that some nights I’d write a few paragraphs or sometimes it may be a sentence or two. […]

Hi Herzl Family! I have told you in the past about how much happens in a day or in an hour here.  Let me run you through a 20 min […]

Hi Herzl Family! When I walked out of the porch this morning, it felt as if a wet, heavy wool blanket had been lifted off the entire Machaneh.  The temperature […]