News & Announcements
Upcoming Events
New Kinderland Family Members
Daughter Norah Szava Bernstein was welcomed by a delirious Bob Bernstein (C6, S7,8) and calmer but extremely happy partner Veronika Szava January 8th, 2:08 AM. Norah was 8 pounds 5 ounces, 22-1/2 inches long.
News
Jason Brenner (C9,S0) and Sarah "Saz" Bonagarten (S0) are engaged and will be married in New York in July 2011. The couple met at Kinderland!
What Are Kinderlanders Doing?
James Bradley, a current Kinderland parent, and WebServesUs, the developers of the Camp Kinderland website, have launched the alpha version of Accomplish.com and you are invited to become one of the early users of this website.
Accomplish.com was created with you in mind:
Your school programs, Your sport teams, Your community projects, Your religious groups, Your needs and desires - translated into action.
Please visit www.Accomplish.com
Register as a User. Create a profile. Decide your Role (Goal Owner or Goal Resource). Define a goal. Suppport a Goal.
We depend on your responses to Accomplish.com to build it further, improve, correct it where necessary. We have created a brief online user survey: http://www.accomplish.com/welcome/survey. Your feedback will help us make a better Accomplish.com.
Thank you very much, The Accomplish Team
Katie Halper, a former Kinderland camper and staff member, writer, comedian and filmmaker who is currently working on a documentary about Camp Kinderland, has created some YouTube videos including a most recent one about Sarah Palin and why she is not a feminist. Please check it, and the others, out at www.youtube.com/user/katiehalper. They're great!
For anyone who is interested in Jules Dassin's film The Naked City, an interesting note about the DVD. In one of the extras, Dassin is interviewed at the age of 92 and he discusses his time at Camp Kinderland in the 1930's. It is an interesting piece.
Mona Reeva, once a camper at Camp Kinderland, and a waitress at Camp Lakeland has a web site www.greenmountainartistry.com Mona offers her photography and handmade one of a kind jewelry including necklaces, earrings and bracelets, and one of a kind hand knit scarves for sale. Her photography includes images from her many travels, and from local areas. She is a member of the Berkeley Camera Club in Berkeley, CA, and of the Photography Society of America. She has received numerous awards for her photography. For more information and her bio, please visit
Steffi Stein is a former Kinderlander and an artist. She silk-screens anti-war t-shirts, many of which feature the names of people who have died in Iraq, both American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. They are available at www.unionmaide.etsy.com.
ZINGT! A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH CHORAL MUSIC the CD released in 2006 by the JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS conducted by BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER is now available on CD BABY!
If you have the CD, get it for a friend or relative. If you don't have the CD yet, get it now!
The 32-page booklet that comes with the CD has the complete texts in Yiddish, in transliteration, and in English translation!
Go to http://www.cdbaby.com and click on new arrivals / world / Yiddish or click on http://cdbaby.com/cd/jppchorus
The CD is also featured in two different places in the STYLE/GENRE GALLERIES:
http://cdbaby.com/style/460 and http://cdbaby.com/style/169
Enjoy!
How to Help Camp Kinderland
We all want to help Kinderland continue to provide the amazing experience our campers have enjoyed for 85 years. But, it isn't always easy. Here are a few ways to help that you may not know about:
Make a contribution to Camp Kinderland every time you search the internet or shop online! Go to www.goodsearch.com and they will make a donation to Camp Kinderland every time you do a web search. They will also make a donation when you buy something online through GoodShop. Check it out!
Looking for a new cell phone? You can make a donation to Camp Kinderland while you get one! Go to http://www.phonesforgood.com/pfg/go/144 and shop for a phone through any of their many carriers and they will make a $40 - $50 donation to Camp Kinderland when you buy one.
Looking to go to the theater? Go to www.givenik.com and select Camp Kinderland as the charity you want to support. Then you can buy discount tickets to broadway shows, and 5% of the price of the tickets is donated to Camp Kinderland.
If you have any news about anything that is happening in the Kinderland community that you would like to post here, please call or email us to let us know. All submissions need to be reviewed before posting.