(Jewish Group) Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. Filled in weeks.

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Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. It was filled within weeks.

Shira Berkowitz was building a career in Jewish camping when a camp told them not to return.

“It got around that I was that was queer, and that that wasn’t appropriate for me to be a program director for girls,” Berkowitz said. “And that was really harmful to my identity. I went back in the closet for a few years.”

Berkowitz’s career and personal identity recovered, and they went on to work at Camp Sabra, Missouri’s biggest Jewish overnight camp, which they described as far more accepting.

“But I was also very aware that there was almost no queer staff, except for myself and one or two other people,” Berkowitz said.

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1. This makes me smile

My kids all attended Jewish camp outside Waco. My older two kids who are 22 months apart in age convinced the counselors that they were twins.

Again, this makes me smile

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