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20 TAMMUZ 5774
PARSHAS MATOS

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Learning is
Shtark in Camp
Achdus

ho is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful

than a locomotive, and earns lots
of points? A Camp Achdus camper!
The Kfiratorium is transformed
every morning into a lively Beis
Medrash. Campers in Alef, Ches,
and Daled daven and then attend
their respective shiurim given by
Yisroel Meir Burger, Rabbi Yehoshua Duskis, and Rabbi Reuven Goldstein. Meanwhile, Vuv
and Suf campers learn with Rabbi
Nulman or their esteemed
chavrusas, the erudite counselors
we are so proud to have.
From the Chessers and Daleders
learning mishnayos to the Vuver
and Suffers learning Gemara Kiddushin, everyone can and is accumulating a fortune in eternal,
priceless reward. As a small bonus,
Camp Achdus also supplements
those points with less valuable
(but more tangible) GPS Points,
named after a
very famous
navigator.
The points are
bh rolling in
faster than they
can be spent on
delicious canteen treats and fabulous prizes!
The prestigious Top Ten point
leaders in Vuv and Suf are posted
daily on the Wall of Fame in the
Kfiratorium. A

SMILING ON THE FIELD: Shloimy B. and Dovid S.

Last Week in Review

The first week of camp
was a little bit meshigeh!
You disagree? Well, let
meeeeexplain!
We wrapped up a few boys in
toilet paper. Yechiel Greenspan was one of the Wrappors
and Mordechai Mosheyev was
one of the Wrappees. Motty
Kolodny served ketchup blindfolded to Moishy Couzens.
Pinny Elbaum drank 13 cups of
water in 4 minutes and Shloimy
Ribiat drank a concoction the
contents of which we are still
not sure. The counselors decided
to put on an impromptu play
about the importance of Avacado. It turns out that the active
ingredient in Avacado is Vitamin
Chof Gimel. Who woulda thunk
it?
There was also Human Bingo!
Tuvia Rosen came in first
place. He found out that Yaakov N. was born in the same
month as him, S.M.S. can touch
his tongue to his nose, and
Efraim P. has a broken arm.
In other news, Avromy Pollack and Daniel Brenner
stood at the front of the Kfiratorium and told stories. At the

same time! Matty Brennen

performed a skit in front of the
whole camp about a king who
wants to go to Eretz Yisroel. The
counselors wondered Who
Wants to Buy a Duck, which
somehow morphed into Who
Wants to Run Camp Achdus with
Mrs. Goldstein! Shlomo Feldman threw a football into a
bucket over 100 ft away. Oh I
almost forgot about the Brothers
game! Did you know that Zach
Bril wants to be a Soccer player
when he grows up and the
Baumingers favorite food is
Cheese Blintzes? Did you know
that if you have a brother in
camp, the likelihood of you
agreeing to do your chores when
asked falls substantially? Well
now we know a lot of things that
maybe we really dont want to
know!
We also went to Flyers Skate
Zone and froze our kahoozees
off while listening to Everybody
wants Moshiach for the 400th
time. Its hard to believe we did
so much in a week and that is
besides the sports and swimming we did at the new Simon
Clanaman pool!

1 Last Week in Review

1 Learning Shtark
2 This Week in Review

GPSEnd of Week 2

Vuv & Suf

1 Yisroel Kelemer 7,260
2 Dani Horwitz 7,175
3 Fitzy Bettoun 5,175
4 Yechiel Greenspan 5,000
5 David Bril 4,835
6 Dovid Shmulevich 3,710
7 Avromi Pollack 3,370
8 Shloimy Bauminger 3,320
9 Eitan Goldman 3,200
10 Oriel Gola 2,500

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This Week

watches. Bunk Alef played a mean game

of soccer and made 3D Rosh Hashana
Cards. Bunk Ches ate a mean lunch and
shopped at the canteen.

IN REVIEW

who actually thought he was a cook. UnMonday

fortunately, Shloime Ribiats hair was the
The week started off with some recipient of Yisroel Meirs tragic mistake.
unbelievable learning groups!
As always, tickets were picketed and
Davening was powerful as bunks Ches and
freeze pops were won. But
Daled belted out the different parts of
thats beside the point!
Davening with Rabbi Dave Lubell. Tickets
We ended the day
were won and prizes were given for exwith
a crazy game
traordinary prayer sessions.
of Actionary. DaHey, who is that man carrying a large
vid Bril, Dani Horbag of sports equipment? Yes, it is Mr. Ira
witz, Aharon NulSomers, back once again for Somers
man, and Idan
Sports! Soccer, Hockey, Kickball! No sport
Bitas fought over a
is too preposterous for the majestic Mr.
Lulav and Esrogor
Somers!
was it a baseball bat?
The first game of Leagues beWho knows! This is acgan!!! The four teams, Afar, Aish, Mayim tionary, and you never know
and Ruach battled it out to see who would where the silent skit shall take you.
be the final conquerors. Alas, the games
Tuesday
did not count yet as they were exhibition
games. At lunch, the counselors put on a
Fast Day went so fast we didnt even
hilarious play about a hair stylist/barber
have any camp...

The rest of the camp had leagues, and

then the real fun started. The boys boarded the Maytav busses and headed to swim
in one of the wettest pools in the Eastern
hemisphere. Mr. Clanamans pool would
be the wettest but his half
brother on his mothers
side has a pool 2 degrees
wetter in Perth Amboy.
The boys returned
from swimming to
see their money disappear. No not really!
It was M.M.M: Magical
Magician Michael, who
found Dovid Nulmans
dollar bill in the middle of a
lemon and made David Bril (on his
very Bar Mitzvah Day) look like Mickey
Mouse! It was a very strange magic show
when his rabbit buzzard ate someones
card and he stuck a real pin through a real

Wednesday
The day started out
with the recitation of
Tehilim for the dire situation in the Holy Land
and then we were off to our
regularly scheduled davening
and learning Groups. Rabbi
Duskis plied the young
Achdus children with powerful kitchen Torah about the
Yomim Tovim, and Rabbi
Goldstein filled the hallways
with sound of holiday teachings. The rest of the day
passed by very quickly, as
the students and campers of
Camp Achdus had so much
fun they lost all of their
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balloon and did not pop it. Another crazy

hazy day at Camp Achdus!

Thursday
The day once again starts off
with dazzling davening and lumdishe
learning. Yechiel Greenspan klerred a chakira from Rav Boruch Ber that was mamish
a velts kasha! As we speak, he is up to

Week in Review
4,400 points which translates
to a fairly large amount of
freeze pops! After learning,
Mr. Sommers is back, but
thats not even the most
active part of the day! Go
Carts are back on at Camp
Achdus along with EZ Rollers
and Scooters. What a great
activity! And what is that
large flat box sitting on the
office floor? Oh its our

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brand new Air Hockey Table!!! Yahoo!!! The Game
room is now double the
fun!!!
Lunch is delicious, but not
nearly as edible as Sing Your
Mouth Out with our new
reigning champion, Avrohom
Yitzchok Duskis. He sang
some really great songs composed by his very own father!

Following the lingering

lunch, Bunks Alef and Ches
played a mad game of balloon-a-rama. How many balloons can you keep up in the
air? Two, Five, Ten? We shall
see, we shall see.
The day ended with a
brand new game brought to
Camp Achdus: Skits in A Bag!
Each bunk got a bag and had
to use those props for a very
strange play. That was fine
for Bunk Alef because it was
1973 and that was a very
strange year as everyone
knows. Bunk Ches tried to kill
someone with a wire hanger
but BH that came to a quick
stop. Bunk Daled played a
Baseball game with garbage
but somehow scored 50 runs
anyway. Bunk Vov Katan
made fun of their teacher
and tried to poison him to
death and Vov Suf took an
entire bank hostage (I think).
Bunk Vov Kattan won the day
and a free trip to Ritas!!!

MASMID OF THE WEEK

David Bril
Mazel Tov to our very
esteemed bunk suffer,
DAVID BRIL, on his
Bar Mitzvah this week!

Meatball of the Week

Aharon Nulman

Friday
Its a beautiful Sunny day
at Camp Achdus! Thats no
surprise but whats crazy is
the Fast Food, Electrical Appliances and Torah Heroes.
Yes we played FFEATH! For
lunch we played some more
games and said a loud and
resounding Sha Sha Shabbat
Shalom!!! Between that &
Air Hockey, Camp ROCKS! A

Bunk Ches plays an enthusiastic game of soccer

Leagues play baseball >