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Wexner Heritage Village has launched a new community service designed to help seniors and their families find healthcare and housing services faster and with greater ease.

Wexner OneCall is a single telephone number – answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week – consumers can call for help sorting out all of their senior healthcare and housing needs. An intake specialist will listen to the caller’s situation and concerns, answer questions and connect them to the appropriate WHV service. The Wexner OneCall line, 614-255-7270, is staffed around the clock and messages are returned within one hour.

“We know from experience that the people who call us typically are already under a great deal of stress,” said Erin Keller, WHV’s Executive Director of Care

Coordination and Wexner Home Care. “We wanted to create a way to make finding the care their family needs one less thing they have to worry about. By being immediately available when families call us, we can put in place the services they need that much sooner.”

Keller said it is easy for people researching senior services to become confused by conflicting information available from websites, friends and family members.

“It can be hard for people to wade through all the industry jargon,” Keller said. “So, in essence what we are doing is helping people find answers when they don’t really know what questions to ask.”

Recently, Keller said, a woman who thought her father needed to be moved to a nursing home called. The OneCall

intake specialist spoke with her and was able to determine that hospice care would be a better fit and explained that it would provide the support the family needed to honor her father’s wish to remain at home.

“Never having been through this before, the family was understandably unaware of their options,” Keller said. “We were able to offer them alternatives that better met their needs from the start, saving them precious time and reducing their anxiety.”

For more than 60 years, Wexner Heritage Village has served the needs of Central Ohio’s older adults and their families. Known as the region’s oldest, most trusted and most comprehensive service provider, WHV’s offerings include Zusman Hospice; Wexner Home Care;

Creekside at the Village independent and assisted living; The Cottage, memory care assisted living; Wexner Rehabilitation; Wexner Heritage House, long-term residential care; Shalom House Inc., programs and housing for adults with developmental disabilities; and Bexley Heritage Apartments and Heritage Tower, senior housing for those with limited incomes.

More information about Wexner OneCall or any of the Wexner Heritage Village services can be found online at www.whv.org or by calling 614-255-7270.

Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda hosts first utility-scale solar power field

The nearly $24 million project was financed and constructed by Gigawatt Global.

Yosef Abramowitz, Gigawatt president, also is CEO of Energiya Global Capital, Gigawatt’s Israeli affiliate, which provided seed money and strategic assistance for the project.

The Rwanda field — constructed in the shape of the African continent — was built on land belonging to the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The village for orphans from the 1994 Rwandan genocide and after

was founded by the late Anne Heyman, who died a year ago in a horse-riding accident.

The village is leasing land to house the solar facility, the fees from which will help pay for a portion of the village’s charitable expenses. Gigawatt Global also will be providing training on solar power to students of the Liquidnet High School on the grounds of the Youth Village.

The solar field will feed electricity into the national grid under a 25-year power purchase agreement with

the Rwanda Energy, Water and Sanitation Authority.“Our project proves the viability of financing and

building large-scale solar fields in sub-Saharan Africa, and we hope that this solar field serves as a catalyst for many more sustainable energy projects in the region,” Chaim Motzen, Gigawatt Global co-founder and managing director, said in a statement.

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Seeing a Jewish player in the National Football League these days is like seeing Urban Meyer in a blue suit with a yellow shirt. In fact, according to the Jerusalem Post, only eight Jewish players have ever won Super Bowl rings before.

The list of Jews to win the big game is even smaller: including New England Patriots punter,Josh Miller (2005), Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Randy “The Rabbi” Grossman (who won a Jewish-record four times in 1975, ’76, ’77, ’78), San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Harris Barton (1989, ’90, ’95), 49ers tight end John Frank (1985, ’89), Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Alan “Shlomo” Veingrad (1993), Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Bobby Stein (1970), Miami Dolphins

offensive guard Ed Newman (1973) and Los Angeles Raiders defensive end Lyle Alzado (1984).

Nate Ebner is added to that short but esteemed list. He is the second Jewish Columbusite to make it to the Super Bowl. Nate has a home in Dublin and went to high school at Hilliard-Davidson. The other Columbus Jew, John Frank, has two Super Bowl

rings and played tight end for the 49ers in both Super Bowl XX and XXIII. His Jewishness came up as a subject during a very short twitter exchange with Josh Platt, publisher of JewishSportsCollectibles.com, a Jewish sports memorabilia site. Though Ebner’s mother is not Jewish, in the twitter dialogue he publicly identified himself as Jewish.

Ebner didn’t take the traditional route to the NFL. In fact, he never ran

one football route at Hilliard-Davidson high school. Instead he loved rugby, a sport his father, Jeff, taught him growing up in Springfield, Ohio.

Jeff, a former college rugby player, pushed his son to finish strong in whatever task he took on. His father was also a Sunday School principal at Springfield’s Temple Shalom and worked the family business in auto reclamation. In 2008 his father was tragically beaten to death during a robbery at his business. Nate was 20. His father’s killer was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

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Ebner was a standout rugby union player on the US age group national team. Ebner was named MVP of the USA team at the IRB Junior World Championship in 2007 (Under 19) and 2008 (Under 20), and at age 17 was the youngest player ever to play in National.

Ebner attended Ohio State University, where he majored in Exercise Science. A preferred walk-on player for the Buckeyes, Ebner did not start playing football until 2009, but was considered their best special teams player

Ebner said he channeled his anger and reeling emotions of his father’s death into football.

In 2011 he was voted the team’s most inspirational player, receiving the Bo Rein Award, and the team’s best special teams player, earning the Ike Kelley Award. He was a three-time Big Ten Conference All-Academic honoree.

Ebner was drafted by the New England Patriots in the sixth round of the

2012 NFL Draft, 197th overall and was signed to a four-year contract. He had considered returning to rugby but had not been drafted.

“It’s pretty impressive to make it here,” captain and four-time Pro Bowl guard Logan Mankins said of Ebner to ESPN. “He’s been a good addition to the team. Hard worker. Does everything the coaches and other players ask of him.”

Ebner told ESPN that kickoffs were his favorite to play.- “I don’t know why. I just enjoy running down as fast as you can. It’s just mayhem, it’s exciting, and it’s crazy. It’s such a rush. I don’t even know what to say about it,” he said. “It happens so fast. It’s just one big blur, and then it’s over. I just love it. It’s just amazing. Maybe I got a screw loose.”

Going into this Super Bowl game Ebner drew strength and perseverance from thoughts of his father.

“Obviously, it was devastating. Nobody wants to lose their father,

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especially how that happened. But the type of person he was, and our relationship, I can only draw strength from it,” Ebner said to ESPN. “I was never really one to pity myself. I don’t know how he would feel about feeling bad for myself because he was gone. He was one to say every day ‘If I died tomorrow, I wouldn’t be mad about the way I lived.’ So I don’t want to, as a son, be sad about it. I’m so lucky to have a person like that in my life, especially as a father figure, he was

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The Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) has launched BunkConnect™, a new, national program that matches eligible families with high-quality nonprofit Jewish summer camps at a more affordable price. This philanthropic business venture has been developed in collaboration with forward-thinking business executives and leading philanthropists.

BunkConnect is an easy to use online system. After income-eligible families of all Jewish backgrounds supply some basic, confidential information into

the new tool, BunkConnect matches them with available camp sessions at low introductory rates (40%-60% off list prices). This initiative is modeled after the success of FJC’s One Happy Camper program – a need-blind grant initiative for first-time campers.

“Families want to send their children to Jewish camp. By matching their desire with available summer experiences, we are opening new avenues of access,” said Jeremy J. Fingerman, CEO of FJC. “BunkConnect is changing how we look at scholarship, affordability, and capacity

for Jewish camp and beyond.”Following a successful pilot this

past summer, BunkConnect will launch nationally at the end of November with 75 participating camps, representing various movements and denominations. The program is for first-time campers, basing eligibility on a family’s adjusted gross income, number of dependent children, and place of legal residency. Jewish day school families are welcome to participate.

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Camp’s value for Jewish education and identity-building is now a major focus of communal attention. Major Jewish foundations, federations and organizations are investing heavily in the sector.

Many camps have become more intentional about incorporating Jewish learning, Shabbat and Israel into their programming. They’ve also evolved to meet families’ changing expectations and demands: offering a wider range of choices of all kinds (from food to activity to session length); providing more frequent updates and communications to parents; accommodating numerous medical requirements and allergies;and placing greater emphasis on safety and security.

At the same time, the Jewish camping field is becoming more professionalized. The job of camp director has been shifting from a seasonal gig to year-round career, and counselors are receiving more intensive training.

With all this change in the Jewish camp world, here are 10 specific trends we have noticed:

1) Shorter sessions: Once upon a time, summer camp meant the entire summer, with the majority of campers attending for seven, eight or even 10 weeks. Now it is the rare child or teen who spends the full summer at camp (or at one camp), and most programs offer multiple sessions, ranging in length from just six days to seven weeks. “Our three-week session has always sold out more quickly than the four-week, and our new two-week session has been a quick hit as well,” said Vivian Stadlin, co-director of Eden Village Camp in Putnam Valley, N.Y.

2) Specialized programs: Whether a child’s passion is sports, the environment, outdoor adventure or science and technology, there’s a Jewish camp for that. An incubator under the auspices of the Foundation for Jewish Camp spurred the creation of five specialty camps in 2010 (including Eden Village, which is focused on the environment) and another four that will open this summer. The idea is to attract kids who might not otherwise consider

a Jewish camp and to show them they can combine their passion with Judaism. Increasingly, established general-interest Jewish camps are adding specialty tracks and electives. For example, the New Jersey Y camps offer a science program and various sports programs, while Ramah in the Poconos has run basketball clinics and a tennis academy.

3) Healthier food: Serving healthy, locally sourced food is a part of the mission of some specialty camps like the new health-and-wellness-focused Camp Zeke and was a component of Ramah Outdoor Adventure from its beginnings in 2010. In addition, many established Jewish camps have been redoing their menus to make them more nutritious and environmentally friendly: adding salad bars, replacing “bug juice” with water, offering more vegetarian fare and even planting their own organic vegetable gardens.

4) More affordable options: The Foundation for Jewish Camp recently introduced a new program called BunkConnect that enables first-time campers from middle- and lower-income families to search for a variety of discounted Jewish summer camp options. While BunkConnect is currently only available in the Northeast, New England and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, the foundation hopes to expand it in future years. In addition, most Jewish overnight camps offer financial aid and the One Happy Camper Program, initiated in 2006, offers grants for all first-time campers regardless of need. So far 50,000 children have received One Happy Camper grants.

5) Broadening definition of camp: While rural settings and rustic accommodations are still the norm, two specialty camps — the Union for Reform Judaism’s Six Points Sports Academy and Six Points Science & Technology — are located on boarding school campuses, and another, the 92nd Street Y’s Passport NYC, is in the middle of Manhattan. Passport NYC, in which participants choose among tracks in culinary arts, film, fashion, musical theater and music industry, and live in air-conditioned dorms,

and Six Points Science blur the boundary between “camp” and “summer program,” while programs like USY on Wheels and Adamah Adventures, which operate under the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s umbrella, blur the boundary between “camp” and “teen travel.”

6) Day camps brought into the tent: While the Conservative movement’s Camp Ramah has long operated both day and overnight camps, Jewish day camps generally haven’t interacted much with overnight camps, nor have they received the same level of attention from Jewish communal leaders or philanthropists as their sleep-away counterparts. That is changing as this year, for the first time, leaders of Jewish day camps are being included in the bi-annual Leaders Assembly of the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The foundation is finalizing plans with UJA-Federation of New York to establish an incubator developing six specialty day camps in the region. In addition, the Union for Reform Judaism is opening its first day camp this summer. Meanwhile, the philanthropic group Areivim is funding Hebrew-immersion day camps throughout the United States.

7) Inclusion of children with disabilities: An estimated 13 percent of children have some sort of disability, but only 2 percent of Jewish campers do, according to research conducted last year by the Foundation for Jewish Camp. The Jewish camping world is looking to make the camping experience accessible to more children with disabilities, including them at regular camps wherever possible, rather than segregating them at separate facilities. The foundation is currently working to raise $31 million for a multi-pronged effort to serve more such children by offering relevant staff training, revamping physical facilities to make them accessible, and creating vocational education and life-skills training programs at multiple camps.

8) Year-round programming: Growing numbers of camps are offering educational programming during the school year through partnerships with institutions like synagogues and day schools. Such

partnerships often involve sharing staff members, under the auspices of new programs like Ramah Service Corps and the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Nadiv initiative. In addition, camps within easy commuting distance of major metropolitan areas and ones in temperate regions or with winterized facilities are increasingly hosting a range of family/community programs in the off seasons: Eden Village, just 50 miles north of Manhattan, runs a home-school program and weekend family/community programs throughout the year, while nearby Surprise Lake Camp, in Cold Spring, N.Y. even runs High Holiday services and Passover Seders. Camp Ramah Darom in Georgia runs a week-long Passover retreat.

9) Family camp: Family camps have been around for decades, but now virtually every Jewish overnight camp offers at least one family-camp session, usually a three-day weekend, each year. A number of camps “got into the business just trying to use the facility more, but it wound up being a great recruiting tool,” said Foundation for Jewish Camp CEO Jeremy Fingerman. Several camps also host sessions specifically for families of children with disabilities. While traditionally marketed to camp-age kids and their parents, Rabbi Mitchell Cohen, national director of the Conservative movement’s Camp Ramah network, said several Ramah camps are considering adding sessions for Ramah alumni with younger children. “It’s a relatively inexpensive family vacation,” he noted.

10) Pew-fueled camp enthusiasm: In response to last year’s much-discussed Pew Research Center survey of American Jews, a wide range of Jewish communal leaders have offered their prescriptions for engaging more youth. While these leaders may differ on many issues, almost all have cited Jewish summer camp as something that “works” and is a worthy investment. Jewish camps are already popular with funders, but all the pro-camp buzz will likely generate even more dollars for the field.

Nostalgia about summer traditions notwithstanding, Jewish camps have changed dramatically from a generation ago


Preparing a packing list for when you send your child off to summer camp is an extremely important part of going to camp. For parents who are sending their child to summer camp for the first time, it can even be a little overwhelming. This is because the last thing a parent wants is to send their child to camp and worry about if they forgot to pack something important. Fortunately, preparing a packing list is a great way to give you peace of mind. The best way to organize your packing list is to break it up into six different sections including: headgear, clothing, bedding, footwear, toiletries, and miscellaneous items.

HeadgearHeadbands, bandannas, and hair ties

are all good items to pack because they will keep your child’s hair and sweat out of their face. Hats should be packed because they will keep sun out of your child’s face as well

as protect their skin from UV rays. Naturally, packing their prescription glasses or contact lenses is a given. Other headgear items include sunglasses, swimming goggles and headlamps for night time activities.

ClothingThe clothing you should pack should

include a jacket, jeans, sweatshirt, sweatpants, raincoat, a swim suit, t-shirts, tank tops, and underwear. Pack for comfort and the climate of the camp. Remember, camp can be a grungy place, so things that don’t show dirt/stains are a good choice.

BeddingYou are going to want to read the

information packet about the specific park in order to learn what kind of bedding items you should pack for your child. This could include a bedroll, blanket, mattress pad, pillows, pillow cases, sheets, and/or a sleeping bag. The packet from your camp

should tell you what your child needs and what they do not need.

FootwearThe footwear you pack may include

boots, water shoes, crocs, sandals (or flip-flops) sneakers, and socks. Make sure you pack a few extra socks. It is better for your child to have too many than to run out.

ToiletriesIt is important to make sure you pack

plenty of towels as well as plenty of insect repellent. Other toiletry items include: baby powder, a comb (or brush) deodorant, feminine hygiene items, lip balm, shampoo, body wash, and lots of sunscreen. Check your camp checklist for recommendations.

Miscellaneous ItemsItems that do not really fit in a category,

but should also be packed for your child include books, magazines, a camera (disposable ones are the best option), a

fishing pole, a flashlight with extra batteries, a laundry bag, playing cards, a water canteen, and writing paper (with envelopes and stamps). If your camp allows electronic devices like phones or digital cameras, be sure to pack the charging cable and maybe extra SD cards to save more pictures.

Most parents are a little overwhelmed by the number of items that they should pack for their child when they go away to summer camp. This leads them to wonder if they are packing too much. Generally, the camping information packet from your camp will make suggestions regarding what your child needs. However, it is always better for your child to have too much then for them to discover they need something that you did not pack.

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