1974-1983

When Nachum Segal was assistant head counselor and would yell out that it was time for Mincha...and never needed a mike to be heard around the boys campus! I was too young to fully appreciate what a special man my Sabba was at that time.

1976-1981

So many great memories from camp including meeting my husband. All my life's a circle (anyone?). One Friday night in Ilanot, we thought we had a bat in our bunk so our counselors came back to find a bunk full of girls with towels wrapped around our heads (sleeping soundly). Waterskiing and accompanying my group of Nitzis swimming out to the Kollel dock for their first time! And I never won a color war either. And making the biggest faux pas when I recommended the film, The Producers, to Rabbi Willig! Oy vey

1973-1985

I crack up every time I hear the name of "Bondi", because I always think of "going to do a Bondi" after a big meal on my way back to the bunk........

Also, whenever my wife stirs the soup before Shabbos I always yell, "from de bottom, from de bottom, from de bottom, G-d bless Amerika, right now right now right now!!!!!!!!!"  (for those who never worked in the kitchen, a famous Eli Benzaquen quote, yelled at the top of his lungs while stirring the soup with a large, filthy canoe paddle).  And no matter how hard I try, I can never do a good imitation  Eli's version of Havdallah, which I will never forget as long as I live. 

Who remembers Shigella?  The ATP club?  Slim the driver (Kiddush Lebonyah, anyone?) Heres a good obscure quiz question....What was Slims favorite apertif? (Answer-  I think it was called "Gorilla milk", served at the bar at the Lake Como Inn.)

Anyone else with some old inside jokes or trivia tidbits, please join in......

Larry always yelling at us because we didnt put tht stupid empty soda bottles back.. food that even the people of INDIA WOULD TUN DOWN ,..boker tov machana morasha everbody up up up and out of bed it a beautiful day campers; 5degrees ] lake como pa 18437

2000-2004

1990-1996, 1999

Having to announce wake up every morning for two weeks because I was late to mifkad too many times. Thanks Ruchie! - The lake!!! (best memories of my life) - Intercamps - "Shaiur" (w/ Morah Shulamis learning sefer Yonah) - Sulam in Europe (Spain and Gibraltar... amazing) - Trips to Dorney - Color war!!! [color war break out with the horses] - Shiriah - Machon was one of the best years!!! (great counselors)

1984-1996, 1999-2001

Listening to Rabbi Berman's Animal stories. Sheur with Rabbi Oratz, Shulamith Cohn, Sharon Richter. Arts and Crafts with Mrs. Nadata and Woodshop with Mrs. Koller... and of course day camp winning shiria.

1991-2003

Being a staff kid on visiting day: hanging out in the boys' bunks, working in the canteen and/or the canteen right, and checking out what other people's parents brought them!

1978-1982

I think it was 1979? One morning we woke up for mifkad on boy's campus and we found a skunk had it's head stuck in a garbage can oustide of Bunk 1,2. Neil Wallin was the counselor of Bunk 2. After mifkad, Eddie Malinsky's son was called in to deal with the skunk. We went to davening and breakfast. During breakfast we heard the sound of a shotgun followed a minute later by the smell of skunk. When we got back to boy's campus we found out that the skunk's last act was to spray Neil's laundry hanging on the line on the side of the bunk.

I also remember the year that Rabbi Mordechai Willig challenged the incoming Morasha tennis counselor (who I will not name) to a game of tennis. With tzizit flying, Rabbi Willig beat him in match on Machon-Mechina campus that was one of the best attended tennis matches in my memory at Morasha. I guess Ed Staff was better paying than sports staff because Rabbi Willig stuck with his original job.

When punk was really big and the Sex Pistols were taking their ill-fated tour through the US, a group of Machon-Mechina punkers named Jacobs, Goldsmith, Walkenfeld, and Kellman had a smash hit in the pargod with their original punk hit: "I met a dead lizard on the road, got stepped on by a toad, dead lizard makes good meat, dead lizard's fun to eat."

Anyone remember the time the Haitian kitchen staff threatened to burn down the Bondi complex because the camp showed Blazing Saddles which used the "N" word?

As you can probably guess, I could go on and on.... When I first met my wife, who was from San Francisco and never even heard of Morasha, she used to complain that every 30 minutes I had to interject a "Morasha Minute" into the conversation because those were my salad days. Years of self-discipline had brought this problem under control, but the new Morasha website seems to have revived this character flaw.

1978-1987

So many amazing memories.....some that stand out: "borrowing" intercamp sing trophy, disconnecting all the camp speakers (with our counselors), playing basketball all day Tisha B'av, seeing my first shooting star on the alufim baseball field, roller skating in that tiny gym, and friendships that have lasted 30 years!