★★★★★4.9 · 4 reviews📍 59884 A L Jones Rd, Three Rivers, MI 49093
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About Habonim Dror Camp Tavor
Camp Tavor is the perfect outdoor summer retreat! Located on 68 acres of beautiful woodlands on Kaiser Lake in Three Rivers, Michigan, kids can enjoy a wide variety of activities from swimming in the pool to playing soccer or basketball on the courts. The camp also features a working farm, and the outdoor amphitheater hosts campfires and talent shows for campers to participate in.
At Camp Tavor, the goal is to nurture campers’ compassion, creativity and confidence. Through activities like games, creative adventures, storytelling, and lively conversations, kids can sharpen their critical thinking skills and gain a stronger understanding of their Jewish identity.
Camp Tavor is a great way to help your child grow and learn this summer! Kids will have a blast participating in the camp’s activities while developing important life skills like compassion, creativity, and confidence. With a working farm, pool, basketball court, soccer field, and outdoor amphitheater, Camp Tavor is the perfect place for kids to explore, create, and have fun while learning about their Jewish identity.
Programs
The classes, camps and experiences this business offers.
Avodah
Each session, chanichimot (campers) choose an avodah (work) group and work together on a project for the summer. Some chanichimot work in the chava (farm), weeding, planting, and taking care of our chickens and other animals. Others prefer to tend the trails around camp, trailblazing to keep the pathways through the forests clear and walkable. Chanichimot interested in bishul (kitchen work and food preparation)can help to peel and slice vegetables or assemble lasagna for Shabbat. Year after year, campers share that doing avodah helps them feel ownership over the camp, and contributes to their feeling connected to the land and the people with whom they work.
Peulat Shichva (Age Group Activity)
Activities divided by age group take up a large portion of the day at camp. They usually involve an educational component paired with a fun activity to stimulate both minds and bodies. Chanichimot (campers) may dress up like famous characters from Jewish history and act out a play, or harvest plants from the chava (farm) and have a sicha (discussion) about food justice in our country. These peulot (activities) are firmly rooted in Tavor’s values and seek to focus on social justice, environmentalism, and help foster a personal connection to Judaism.
Zman Chadash (New Time)
This time of the day is one devoted to learning new skills. Counselors (and often campers as well) plan and run activities that are centered around teaching new skills. A madrichol (counselor) who is a math whiz might run an activity teaching basic trigonometry. A chanichol (camper) who plays guitar might organize a guitar circle and teach other campers some basic chords. Zman Chadash is a time to really showcase our unique skills, abilities, and passions with each other and enrich the greater camp community.
Tiyul (Camping Trip)
Tiyul is the name of Camp Tavor’s camping trips. Each session, each shichva (age group) gathers together to experience a camping trip beyond the Camp Tavor property. We know that camping and hiking trips provide an unmatched opportunity for reflection, community building, and self-discovery, and we work to ensure that each camper has an opportunity to develop greater self-confidence while engaging with the great outdoors. Past tiyul activities have included hiking, biking trips, swimming, and (always) singing around a medura (camp fire).
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