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Tova
Does such a thing exist for Orthodox camps or perhaps a pretty comprehensive listing of camps, special features, hashkafah, etc.?
melech
QUOTE (Tova @ Feb 4 2008, 09:43 AM) *
Does such a thing exist for Orthodox camps or perhaps a pretty comprehensive listing of camps, special features, hashkafah, etc.?

You mean besides the unfortunate article in the latest issue of Jewish Living?
http://www.jewishlivingmag.com/
Tova
QUOTE (melech @ Feb 4 2008, 09:45 AM) *
You mean besides the unfortunate article in the latest issue of Jewish Living?
http://www.jewishlivingmag.com/

Featuring a huge 10 summer camps!

Yeah, I'm looking for something with a larger range...along the lines of the (not often updated) Orthodox Caucus guide to yeshivot/year programs in Israel.
melech
QUOTE (Tova @ Feb 4 2008, 10:01 AM) *
Yeah, I'm looking for something with a larger range...along the lines of the (not often updated) Orthodox Caucus guide to yeshivot/year programs in Israel.

Note that the OC Guide to Yeshivot and Seminaries is not comprehensive but rather is skewed to those attended by YU alumni. Their lists are only as inclusive and broad as YU alumni themselves.

I assumed you already Googled and saw lists like this of 63 Jewish camps [some are Orthodox] http://www.mavensearch.com/subjects/297/1/1/.

And this search engine:
http://judaism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsit...jewish_camp.asp
(click the green button on the upper right, find a Jewish camp)
By the way, what's the difference between "Orthodox, Chabad" and "Lubavitch, Orthodox"?
Tova
QUOTE (melech @ Feb 4 2008, 10:05 AM) *
Note that the OC Guide to Yeshivot and Seminaries is not comprehensive but rather is skewed to those attended by YU alumni. Their lists are only as inclusive and broad as YU alumni themselves.

Very true. It provides information for a segment of the Orthodox world, yet there are no fully comprehensive guides covering the spectrum. Then again, any guide that claims to be objective... Reference was made to the OC Guide because it gave an overview of the program, hashkafah, comments...

Thank you for the other suggestions.
melech
QUOTE (Tova @ Feb 4 2008, 10:33 AM) *
Very true. It provides information for a segment of the Orthodox world, yet there are no fully comprehensive guides covering the spectrum.

There can't be. Orthodoxy doesn't lend itself to that sort of thing. That's why, for example, there are single Reform and Conservative umbrella organizations [eg. synagogues, rabbinical schools...] but multiple such Orthodox organizations.
Yehudi
QUOTE (melech @ Feb 4 2008, 10:05 AM) *
And this search engine:
http://judaism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsit...jewish_camp.asp
(click the green button on the upper right, find a Jewish camp)
By the way, what's the difference between "Orthodox, Chabad" and "Lubavitch, Orthodox"?


You missed plain "Lubavitch" which it has there as well, but since when did agudah, hasc, Magen avraham, oorah etc. became lubavitch\chabad camps? or was there some merger? did something happen that I don't know about?
melech
QUOTE (Yehudi @ Feb 4 2008, 12:39 PM) *
You missed plain "Lubavitch" which it has there as well, but since when did agudah, hasc, Magen avraham, oorah etc. became lubavitch\chabad camps? or was there some merger? did something happen that I don't know about?

If you just select "Lubavitch", you don't get those results. Maybe "Lubavitch, Orthodox" means "Orthodox, including Lubavitch". But that doesn't make sense because there's another choice for "Orthodox".
Playing around with the choices, "Orthodox", "Lubavitch", "Lubavitch, Orthodox", "Chabad, Orthodox", they seem to have some esoteric criteria for classification.
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