Dear Camp Wise Families, Second Session Noar Shabbat is here! Tonight, our American and Israeli campers will come together to lead Shabbat for the entire camp community. It is a true blessing to once again welcome teens from Kibbutz Kissufim, one of Cleveland’s beloved partnership community in Israel, back to the Home of Happiness! This summer, 15 incredible teens are joining us, bunking in our 8th–10th grade Noar and Solel cabins, fully…
MACCABIA! Yellow Team Won! Living. Learning. Growing. (Friday, June 27) We’ve just wrapped up the third full week of Trip I 2025 — and what a week it was! The third week of camp is truly magical. This is the time when we see the most social learning and growth take shape. Campers are fully settled, immersed in the rhythm of daily life, and feeling secure within their cabin groups. With that…
Week 2 Shabbat Update of Trip I 2025! What a Week! We’ve just wrapped up the second week of Trip I 2025, and it’s always amazing to witness how time at camp can feel both fast and slow at once—an hour can feel like a day, and a day like a week! On Monday, I considered pre-writing this blog with the theme of Independence, since so many of our activities help campers…
First Shabbat Update of Trip I 2025! Dear Camp Wise Families, The excitement of camp's opening this week is palpable! All of us hold this joy while at the same time share profound concern over the escalation overseas in Israel. Our hearts and prayers are focused on peace in Israel and our world, while here at camp our full attention is directed toward the enduring happiness of camp for our campers and…
Recently, I spoke with a parent of a first session camper. She shared with me that her daughter was sad around the house, missing camp. Her daughter had “the time of her life” at camp this summer. First, I was very excited and touched to hear that the hard work, dedication, planning, and care from our staff members had contributed to this success – Camp Wise became this young girl’s Home of…
What a week it has been!! Trip II always has amazing energy as our camp events are action packed with a few “normal” days in between. This week featured a Solel trip to Pittsburgh, fun and funny evening programs, a full week of chugim (choice activities), and….. Maccabiah!!! Camp Wise does many things well, but Maccabiah (our color wars) we take to the max. Maccabiah is a beautiful time as a camp…
Welcome to Trip II! This was an exciting and uplifting week as we welcomed over 270 campers to The Home of Happiness! In this second part of the summer we have campers coming from all over Ohio – including large delegations from Toledo, Columbus and Akron-Canton. This session we also have over 25 campers from Israel, who, alongside our 24-member Mishlachat (Israeli staff delegation) add to the richness of our Jewish cultural…
