Oholei Torah Day Camp – Young Spirit, Old Memories
One of the most well known and oldest Lubavitch Day Camps was held here in Crown Heights, known as the Oholei Torah Day Camp.
Today, those who are in Crown Heights can’t help but notice the bright orange t-shirts that the 300 Oholei Torah Campers wear so proudly, but what many may not know is that the Oholei Torah Day Camp has a long, rich history.
Drawing campers from Flatbush, Williamsburg, Boro Park, and even as far as the Bronx, Oholei Torah Day camp was one of the only camp options for those young boys who spent their summer in the city. For many of these boys it was their first introduction to the world of Lubavitch and the Rebbe.
Under the Oholei Torah Administration, the camp blossomed and brought much nachas to the Rebbe, as is evident in the many answers Reb Michoel Teitelbaum, the co-founder of Oholei Torah, received from the Rebbe regarding the Day Camp.
We are pleased to share with you these pictures and invite you to guess who the counselors and campers are in the comments section below.
Live and Let Live!
hahaha benji stock looking good!!!!!
Thanx for the memories! Oholei Torah CHAI!!
Photo number 8 (the one with Benji Stock on it), the guy all the way to the left is a Shloimy Kuperman look-a-like!
Picture 1 Sholom Ber Shuchat!!! Ya, go tatty, go tatty!!!
#11 #12, bottom left looks like Zajac?
#8: My brother Yossie Wilansky; Benjy Stock; Yehoshua Yarmush; somebody important
#11,#12: My brother Dovid Wilansky
#8 was Color War contest. I think i have an audio of it in my house… boy… did that rock!!
I have at least 100 pictures of Oholei Torah Day Camp. It was an amazing time. I also have several pics of Avremel Goldman HY”D.
# 1 Sholom Ber Shuchat, Shmulik Naparstick
# 2 Avraham Kass
# 3 Avraham Boruch Junik (Spilman twins)
# 4 Avraham Zorach Notik
#6 Gadi Belizinsky (on right)
# 7 Moshe Moscowitz, Sholom Ber raices (Shimshi Fisher)
#8 Moshe Moscowitz, Yossi Wilansky, Benji Stock, Yehoshua Yarmush
#9 Shlomo Engel
#10 Carlebach
#11 – 12 Dovid Wilansky
Middle kid Shimshon Fischer so cute!!
Picture # 11 is yossi keller
guesses
Photo 3 = camper bottom left = Morozov
photo 6 = camper on right is Blizinsky
photo # 7 = middle = Fisher
photo # 12 = left to right Sklar, Lipsker, Keller
I THINK THERE ARE 3 WILANSKYS HERE!!
YOSSIE DOVID AND MOSHE!
ALL SHLUCHIM OF THE REBBE!
Can the counseler in #4 be Sudak?
The first picture on the bottom left is Moshe Moscowitz, CEO of shazak productions, my kids favorite video and comic books, queen of Persia, out Egypt, and miracle lights.
Shuchat (Toronto) and Shmulik Naparsrtek (Califorina)
the 2 boys on either side of the counselor have GOT to be Spielmans
Counselor is Avraham Baruch Junik sandwiched by the Spielman twins
I can’t believe this! pic #8 is my father who is the BEST HC in Camp Geulah Day camp of Montreal:Rabbi Yosie Wilansky & the one on the right is his good ol’ buddy Rabbi Yehoshua Yarmush
Pix # 11 & 12 must be my uncle:Rabbi Dovid Wilansky
PS I gotta show these to my mother!!!
The counselor is Mendel Raskin, today a Shliach in Melbourne, Australia.
The taller one is Moshe Moscowitz from Chicago, and the shorter one is Sholom Ber Reitses from Chicago.
Rabbi kass is leading the group. The first boy on the right with the payes is sruli Friedman. In the back there is a Rugatzkie
like it or not, slogans started in the early mems with tzivos hashem and we want moshiach now etc.
I remember those good days in Oholei Torah day camp.
I think the counselor in #3 is Avraham Baruch Junik!
mendel bronstein shlome hershkop naftoli herts trenk boruch thaler on the right side dovid moshe newman elchonon shagalov
did anyone notice
there are no “slogans” on any yarmulkahs
wonder why
at least the size of the glasses changed in 20-something years B”H
On your title picture the boy in the dark navy t-shirt is Dovid Moshe Newman and the boy with glasses and a blue shirt is Baruch Trenk
Rabbi Shloimy Carlebach from carroll street
Is that Rabbi A. Kass? he taught in Toronto as well.
#7 The one on the left is a Reitzes
#8 Yehoshua Yarmush and Benji Stock
#9 One of the Engel twins from Montreal
#11 & 12 Mendel (?) Lipsker (Barel’s son) in the middle
my parents were younger than 15 then !!!!!!!!
yehoshua yarmush
benji stock
2 Wilansky’s – y. Yarmush – Carlbach-Angle.
all montrealers some now some then