Oorah
By Timothy Knight on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015 - 6:26 pm
Above: Gilboa Supervisor Tony VanGlad, left, accepting a check from Oorah Camp Director Avraham Krawiec in July 2014. Photo courtesy of the Schoharie News.
Schoharie County officials have denied an application from Oorah, a New Jersey-based nonprofit... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2014 - 4:13 pm
Oorah, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that runs summer camps for Jewish children in the Schoharie County towns of Jefferson and Gilboa, has won a major victory in a longstanding legal battle with the town of Jefferson over whether Oorah was entitled to an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 16, 2014 - 6:47 pm
Oorah, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that runs two summer camps for Jewish children in Schoharie County, filed a lawsuit this week against the town of Jefferson, where Oorah's Boy Zone camp is located.
In the lawsuit, filed in Schoharie County court on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 - 12:23 pm
Above: Video from surveillance cameras at Oorah BoyZone, a Jewish children's camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson. In the video, posted on Oorah's YouTube channel, one of the burglars can be seen climbing through a broken window and letting two... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 20, 2012 - 1:33 pm
Above: Gilboa supervisor Tony van Glad accepts a $7,500 check to the town from Oorah camp director Rabbi Avraham Krawiec in August. Photo courtesy of Oorah.
Is Oorah a good neighbor? It depends who you ask.
Oorah, a large nonprofit that runs two Orthodox... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 - 5:11 pm
Oorah, a Jewish summer camp company that runs programs for boys and girls at a campus called The Zone in Stamford, reports that last week, a burglar (or burglars?) broke into the camp and made off with some expensive equipment from the game room,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 20, 2011 - 11:44 am
According to the Mountain Eagle, the on-going dispute between the Jefferson Town Board and Oorah's Jewish BoyZone summer camp got another airing at last week's Jefferson town meeting.
The paper reports that the camp is planning to expand its capacity by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 2:55 pm
Oorah's BoyZone camp in Jefferson. Photo by Julia Reischel
The Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, reports that Oorah Inc., the company that owns a Jewish boy's summer camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, was the target of a noisy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2010 - 12:54 pm
A man was airlifted to Albany Medical Center after being electrocuted at the Jewish BoyZone summer camp in the town of Jefferson last Thursday, according to officials at the Stamford Fire Department, the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office, and BoyZone's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:21 pm
A Jewish summer camp for boys, which was slated to open this week on the grounds of the former Scotch Valley Ski Resort in Jefferson, had to send all its campers home on Sunday, reports the Mountain Eagle.
The camp -- Jewish Boy Zone, which is owned by... Read more
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