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Looking up to the clouds, soaking it up with awe.
They had learned so much here, in just a few days,
All of the Middot that Camp Harlam displays.

Harlam is a safe place for exploration, a place that offers lots of opportunities, where success is celebrated and failure can also be celebrated as a chance to learn. It is a family, and I thank your family for joining ours.

Come back to the place that made you who you are, the place where you met your best friends, the place that continues to feel like home….. and keep giving everything you can to future generations of campers.

There aren’t that many places in the world that you can leave for a year and completely remove yourself from but still return and feel like you didn’t miss a beat. Camp Harlam is one of those places, through and through.

By David Wall "Oseh shalom bimromav. Hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu. V'al kol Yisrael V'imru" (They who make peace in their high places, may they bring peace upon us, and upon all Israel.) How many times have you said these words and truly understood what you’re staying and...

Talking about the end only makes it feel more real. Our summers can’t be defined by cold showers and splitting the last cookie.  But rather, by the endless laughs and countless memories with our best friends.

At camp we are all unique in different ways. At camp we show a lot of inner beauty even if we don’t realize it.

On opening day, I was not with my parents because my mom was running the camp office. She spent my first 4 summers at camp managing the office so that my sister and I could go to camp. My mom is a small lady with a heavy New York accent.