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The Global Jewish Camp MapLead story
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 14, 2026

The Global Jewish Camp Map

First single-source map of global Jewish summer camp infrastructure — country by country, movement by movement, with the Chabad network that operates across all of them. Israel, North America, France, UK, Canada, Latin A…

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The Camp Director Class
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 30, 2026
The Camp Director Class

890 year-round overnight + 940 day-camp professionals. Schedule J names them and (within thresholds) lists their pay. Top compensation $200K-$400K ran…

The Shlichim Economy
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 25, 2026
The Shlichim Economy

3,140 Israelis crossed the ocean during a war to staff North American Jewish camps in summer 2024. The number went up 11%. The shlichim economy explai…

The Land, the Donors, the Endowments
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 16, 2026
The Land, the Donors, the Endowments

The capital structure behind Jewish camp — real estate (likely $1.5-2.5B aggregate), endowments, the $140M+ Marcus Foundation gave to RootOne, and the…

Foundation for Jewish Camp
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 21, 2026
Foundation for Jewish Camp

The umbrella organization that built the Jewish camp field — and the strategic challenges that test it now. Donor concentration, capacity constraints,…

The Olam Camp Economy 2026
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 8, 2026
The Olam Camp Economy 2026

A half-billion-dollar industry just turned away 5,200 children. Olam's first map of the global Jewish summer camp economy — $510M in NA overnight reve…