Held on Labor Day weekend just before Rosh Hashanah, Camp Nai Nai Nai drew some 100 adults in their 20s and 30s from throughout North America to have fun, make new friends and do Jewish stuff.
On Thursday, the camp plans to hold an “in-person Modin B’nai Mitzvah celebration” in honor of its campers who were unable to celebrate their bar, bat or b’nai mitzvahs with friends this year.
Open summer camps are dealing with abiding by health regulations in a usually freewheeling atmosphere and dealing with parents clamoring to give their kids something approximating a normal summer.
Modin is perhaps the first Jewish camp to tell parents definitively that it will open, and to specifically describe how it will keep campers and counselors safe.
The board's former executive director, Leonard Robinson, was forced to resign in April 2018 after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced.
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