Staff // Overview

Overview

We are very proud of the staff at Camp Alonim! Our staff is responsible, fun-loving, dedicated, and enthusiastic. Each staff member is a high school graduate or older and is comprised mostly of young adults who were once campers at Alonim themselves. As such, we feel very fortunate to be able to provide counselors and specialists that feel Alonim is their home and believe in helping your children make Alonim their home as well. Giving your child a powerful camp experience is the staff’s number one priority and our staff is committed to putting your child’s needs before their own.

Our staff is well trained! Prior to each summer season, all staff participates in a week-long training on the camp premises. Training includes seminars on a variety of pertinent camp issues--from how to handle homesickness, to how to run an educational program, to incorporating Judaism in the bunk. Staff orientation and training truly prepares counselors and specialists for all situations that might arise in camp, and teaches staff to ask for help should a situation become too big to handle.

From our staff…

Being on staff means…

“Giving kids the same rich Alonim experience I had as a camper”
-Joey Spitz, counselor

"Working with campers doing everything from eating meals to studying Torah, and everything in between. It's our job as staff to not only help make the campers better Jews, but better people as well. And more often than not you find that the biggest impact of the summer is not the one you make on them, but the one they make on you."
-Joel Swedlove, songleader

“Putting the camper’s experience before my own experience”
-Erez Cohen, counselor

“Working to provide the same quality of experiences that I had as a camper”
-Lila Holzman, dance specialist

“Being responsible for the well-being of younger children; caring for them as if they were your little brother or sister; making sure they have a positive and fun experience; teaching them as well as learning valuable lessons from them”
-Jordana Pepper, counselor