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Szarvas camp was a great experience

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Published in the Home News Tribune Teen Scene 09/24/07

By ETAN HELLER
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With the placid Danube River stretched out before us and the soft glow of the street lights illuminating the small field of grass we had sat down upon, we started to talk about our heritage.

Enjoying the warm night, we told each other about our family trees, our ancestors and where we had come from.

Stories of escape and new lives were shared, Jewish identity discussed, and finally we said the customary prayers of the havdalah service, to end the Sabbath, as the river flowed next to us.

This was the conclusion of a weekend in Budapest, the culmination of the three-day orientation for the American group about to embark on the two-week Szarvas program in Hungary. Over that weekend, 26 American teenagers who had applied and been accepted for the American Fellowship program formed bonds that would only be strengthened and challenged during the next two weeks.

The next day, we departed for Camp Szarvas (pronounced “Sar-vash,” which means “deer” in Hungarian), an international Jewish camp hosting groups from more than 25 countries, funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation.

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