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The Kosher Top 10
Top 15 Things You Would Know if Only You Went to Ramah in Wisconsin
by Chuck Cohen
15) We have a lake. You can swim in it. Not like some OTHER camps I could mention, with the leaches, and the pool with warm spots when little kids haven't used it all day, and the barbecue beef, and the midnight barbecues, and the meatballs and the agggghhhhh (drooling has ensued. This will be the only mention of Mosh. Really.)
14) Dump and run for pizza bagels, the only food worth eating.
13) English only on 4th of July (BE QUIET! BE QUIET! BE QUIET!)
12) The Reddingmobile
11) Your days off ended, once in a while, at Triggs. EAGLE RIVER!
10) The Garbage Trail stirs up romantic memories.
9) The only way to talk to the kitchen staff was if you knew Vietnamese.
8) Intercourse- I mean Intercamp
7) One of your counselors came in late at night completely trashed- either that or you caught them in compromising situations with other counselors.
6) When you reminisce about camp, you start throwing in random Hebrew words, and blinking profusely (the chanichim, they will of course be ochlim in front of their cabins, or by the cadur-sal courts.)
5) You snuck out to Bauers, and had a drink with your counselors.
4) You know the words to musicals like Hair, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Phantom of the Opera, Free to be You and Me, and Les Miserables, but only in Hebrew.
3) You know that every aidah (and you know what an aidah is) has its own song, as well as the camp itself, sung after campwide gatherings. And you think you remember the words, but all you can make out is ba, ba, ba, and YefaaaaLEIS la-something or other.
2) You've been to the new tennis courts, but not to play tennis (the tennis courts were neither new, nor used for tennis: discuss)
1) You snuck into Beito as a camper, because it USED to be only for counselors. Furthermore, you didn't realize it was called that because Rabbi Soloff actually lived there until you were a counselor, and he kicked everyone out so he could go to sleep.
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From Sara7264
-you would know not to make out behind the meat locker if you didn't want to get caught
-when you hear the words 89 in hebrew, you yell "zdik!"
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Even more things to know
about Camp Ramah in Wisconsin
-You always had a member of the Hoffman family in your aidah
-You knew that you were not allowed on 'Nivo Hill' unless you were in Nivo,
had a sibling in Nivo or were a staff member in Nivo or anyother Aidah at
Camp.
-You looked forward to the night your aidah did your play because you knew
the next morning you got to sleep in after the late night Ice cream
party.
-You looked forward to Shabbat because you knew that you would see all
male staff members wearing their Hawaiian shirts and Birkenstock sandles
with a pair of Khaki shorts or slacks.
-Benji Berman will always be the Rosh Aidah for the class of 2003!
-If you were not from Chicago or Minnesota you were considered an
'outsider'
-Camp Ramah Girls were on the Garbage Trail with Jacob Cherry at least
once and if he was lucky more than once.
-You know that your mattress was once on 'the sex bed'
-You remember staying up all night the last night of camp and making the
plaque for your cabin. Then going to services in the morning with everyone
sleeping on their pillows when they were supposed to be davening.
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More "Things you would know if you went to Ramah
Wisconsin"
10. Joel Chasnoff being Crusified on one of the large crossbeams, dressed like Jesus, on the last night of camp, summer 1990.
9. The loogie wall outside the cabins at the point
8. The Teva and Radio shed was always staffed by the strangest individuals Ramah could find.
7. Parents receiving $100 invoices in September for graffiti written on benches and cabins.
6. Finding out for the first time that Jews actually do live in places like Oklahoma City, Memphis, Fort Wayne, Cincinatti, and Dayton.
5. The kitchen lady who stirred the large vat of Hot chocolate always chewed on her tongue like it was a piece of bazooka bubble gum.
4. Hard Kosher Salami was traded between campers and staff and became a staple commodity.
3. The "Big Reish" was code name for pass the Rogaine.
2. CSR......rumors and realities
1. Bribing counselors to let us wash our clothes in the staff washing machines while we were campers.
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More ways you know you went to Ramah WI:
--"You wanna go to the Garbage Trail?" is considered a pick-up
line. (The best place to make out there is behind the meat locker)
--You danced on the kikar to songs no Israeli these days has even heard of
--Your cabin had a sex yishun courtesy of Minda Garr
--You thought you were so clever when you discovered the Nivo
"nun" sign reversed made an "L"
--You know that "No Smoking" doesn't involve cigarettes
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