On Monday, Aleph Kattan and Gadol had exciting relay races, bunk vs. bunk. And the winner was well, lets wait and see. The races started with an individual long distance dash with a close

finish between Yosef Chaim Gold-stein and Simcha Kay with Yosef Chaim pulling out a victory by a few feet. Next came the whole bunk chal-

lenge where each camper had to run a long distance before tagging a teammate who would run next. Every camper ran with excitement, determination and purpose: each wanted to finish first. But it was Aleph Gadol who brought across the finish line each bunk member first:

Simcha Kay, Tzvi Hirsch Oshink-sky, Yitzy Meir Roling, Yosef Chaim Goldstein, and Binyamin Cortell. In a final bid to see who was speediest of the speedy, Benyamin Cor-tell ran faster than everybody in both bunks. Way to go, Benyamin.

In tennis baseball, both Bunks of Aleph had terrific hitting and great field-ing.

Ches Kattan played a rousing game of football, each team choosing the names Eagles and Jets. Two highlights

included Yonah Tzvi Miller picking up a fumble on the one yard line and diving into the endzone for a touchdown;

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and some of the counselors have returned to their respec-tive Yeshivos. We are sad they are gone but happy that they are shteiging in learning heilige Torah. Davening and Learning are so incredible that the Rosh Hayeshia of Mir Ye-shiva decided to join Camp Achdus for the rest of the Sum-mer. Cool dude! Whats this new activity instead of Go Carts? Ez-rollers and Scooters are now an official activity at Camp Achdus! Zooming around Achdus Circle is sooo much fun! With some of the

talented staff already gone, Rabbi Akiva is forced to don his working hat again and run Camp. Thus, Camptime is a really cool game of Eat your Mouth Out/Sing Your Mouth Out! The Oldins and the Youngins both have a wonder-ful day but the Oldens also have a wonderful night. Bunks Vuv and Suf jump on the Out-law Mobile and make their way to French Creek. Or is that Spanish Creek, or Greek Creek? Its some foreign lan-guage somewhere in PA. Any-way, the trip to French Creek is

OH NO!!! ONLY ONE MORE WEEK OF CAMP!

ANOTHER TOUGH WEEKEND is done and BH Camp Achdus has begun again. The hallowed halls of camp are just a bit quieter though due to the fact that Elul is here

Week in Review RABBI AKIVA POLLACK

Sports

The Weekly Wrap-Up.

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Camp Photo!

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Gibor Charts Completed!

Chaim Leib Miller

Simcha Kaplun

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1 WEEK IN REVIEW

1 SPORTS

2 THE BEIS MEDRASH

4 GPS WALL OF FAME

5 GIBORIM OF THE WEEK

6 THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS

6 UPCOMING EVENTS

SPECIAL FEATURES

T his week the sound of Torah in the Achdus Beis Medrash resounded from wall to wall. The older bunks are deeply into Perek Shlosha

sheachlu and the the momentum is only build-ing. As the campers toil on the gemara with their charusos and rabbeim they are working hard to gain a clear understanding of the sugyos regarding making a zimun. This week the chavrusa shafts span from mem vuv to mem

zayin and are learning about how far birchas hazimun goes, whether zimun is doraysa or dra-banan, who gets the honor of sit-

ting first and washing first (is washing first real-ly an honor?), when to give kavod and when not to, if a guest can eat before the baal habayis, when to answer amen and when not to, how could it be that we bencsh zimun on dmai, and whats the chiddush that we bensch with a zimun on maser rishon shenitla terumaso. With Rabbi Michelsohns Gemara Point System in place, as the campers learn the Gemara, they are tested by their chavrusos in order to earn points. The Top Ten scorers, along with their points, are hung prominently on the wall. The younger bunks are davening and learning beau-tifully. A special yasher koach to bunks Daled Gadol and Kattan, who have been davening so nicely even though they have had to switch learning rebbeim. The sweet sound of the tino-kos shel bais rabun of bunks Alef and Ches davening and learning Chumash has been bring-ing Mashiach closer and closer!

The Beis Medrash AKIVA LOGUE uneventful until we get

to the narrow gravel road. Somehow, some-way, the big yellow Out-law Mobile must trav-erse these muddy pot-holes and transport the Achdus children to their little wooden cabin and plastic port-a-potty. As it turns out, Brandon the Outlaw has abso-lutely no problem navi-gating those hills and alleys. His performance is absolutely breathtak-ing!

The children of Unison (Achdus) imme-diately begin to set up their tents. Once again Moshe Goldman has brought the biggest tent of all! You can huff and puff and never blow that thing down. He is able to fit 412.5 bunk Suf kids in there. Which is good because the first digit is the actual amount of bunk Sof kids we have this week. Wood is collected and the fire is built. Mincha is prayed and hot dogs are cooked. And then its time for the fire. Oh yes the fire. Its so big

the Lone Ranger would be impressed. A special treat is the attendance of the Rabbi G. Gold-stein family including Avraham. We danced and sang the night away to the rhythm of Yehu-da 10&baums guitar. The franks were deli-

cious thanks to Shloimy Gorin and Mordechai Phelps! The Smores were also ex-tremely edible. Smores will now become an official staple added to the Pollack Supper menu. Maariv followed and then it was off to Capture the Flag! Bran-don Outlaw was abso-lutely unstoppable! The pitch black field mile from the campsite was scary and dark. The campers were thrown in jail and the flags were

captured. A truly be-coming Sport for a be-loved camp. There was one purple heart given out during the game. Shloimy Gorin took one for the team when he twisted his ankle while trying to steal the flag. Rabbi Goldstein also

gets an award for trans-porting the wounded Gorin to the Campsite from the Capture the Flag Field.

Tuesday

Its a beautiful morn-ing and boys at the overnight must wake up extremely early! 8:30 am. It is Rosh Chodesh, and, although they are stranded in middle of nowhere, they manage to find a Chabad house

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only 20 minutes away where they daven kidebai! Thank you, Yehuda Kremansky, for leining, and Yehuda 10&baum and Chaim Yona Nulman for leading the be-ginning-of-the-month pray-ers. They return to the campsite where they pack their tents and things and make their way to boating! Moshe Goldman, Hillel Friedman, Dovi Ellman, Chaim Yona Nulman and Shlomo Starkman found a very unique flower floating in the French waters. That was their excitement for the day.

Back at camp, the Junior Division of Camp Achdus was having a blast. They davened, learned, and fought the evil forces of the Yetzer Hara! And that was all be-fore 10:30 am. Sports were sporty and fun! After lunch we played The Brothers Game! Brother and Brother had to somehow get along! Yisroel Oshinsky was asked if he was nice to his brother. Yoni Galen was asked if he jumps out of bed or hits the snooze button. Moshe was asked who Yossi Gabbais best friend was. It was a cra-zy game but the truth has vanquished its evil twin!

Wednesday

Today is the day! Yes! The younger division of Camp Achdus finally gets their overnight. Well, its more of an Overday. Never-theless, the children bring their sleeping bags, pajama, insect repellant and smiling

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faces. After davening and learning, they enter a darkened Kfiratorium where a makeshift fire was set up (actually it was four wooden bent-ches lined up together.) An extremely scary story was told about an old man and his one-legged dance. Oh, was it scary (not). The chil-dren then joined in a Smores fest. UMMMMM. Then it was time for the real fire. Adam the Shadow (knows) built a fire out of cardboard boxes. The bad news is that it was a fake fire as well. The good news is that if Mrs. Lipsky doesnt come one day, we have a new replacement.

During this propitious time, the older bunks became very jealous. They wanted an over-day, too. True, they had two overnights but nothing compares to an overday. As a concilia-tion prize, they were given an activity to write Yearbook articles. Articles like: If I had a penny every time (fill in the camper) or If there was a fire then (fill in the camper) would. They repeated these sentences for each boy in their bunk. Now if, during the year, they were given an as-signment to write a paper, pretty much re-peating the same thing

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15 times, it would be con-sidered a punishment. But not in Camp Achdus! The boys then had the choice of going to swimming or play-ing in the rain. Most ended up getting wet in some form or another. Another great day comes to an end at Camp Achdus.

Thursday

The countdown has be-gun. Its hard to believe but there are only six more days left to camp! That means that we are about to start school again. Wahhh! I need a Motrin. Extra Strength. I guess we just

have to make the best of what we have left.

TALENT SHOW!!! Peo-ple bring in all sorts of fan-cy stuff. Guitars, Magic Cards, voices, Dances, Har-monicas! Yeshaya Badush, Mordechai Mosheyev and Yosef Chaim Goldstein did a really cool Cartwheel dance. Simcha Kay, Zach Bril, and Matti Brennen also did some dances and musical magic. Chananya Kelemer and Reuven Rudin played some beauti-ful guitar together! Chaim Shvartz played the har-monica beautifully! Adam Harari had a great HipHop performance but the music

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Top Ten Masmidim

1) Shloimy Ribiat

1,529 POINTS

2) Hillel Friedman

1,107 POINTS

3) Dovid Weiss

705 POI NTS

4) Shlomo Starkman

540 POI NTS

5) Eliyahu Bucholtz

470 POI NTS

6) Dovid Zalman

Shmulevitch

457 POI NTS

7) Mordechai

Kelemer

435 POI NTS

8) Aharon Nulman

427 POI NTS

9) Dovi Ellman

375 POI NTS

10) Yisrael Arbiv

326 POI NTS

GEMARA POINTS SYSTEM

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Dovy Goldman intercepting a pass on the one yard line and then returning it for a touch-down to close the games gap to 14-7. But that wasnt enough as the Jets topped the Eagles 21-7.

Daled Gadol also played football choosing for team names Eagles and Steelers. Highlights from this game in-

clude Gershon Colemans endzone snag to start the scor-

ing, Yehuda Galens looooong catch for a touch-down and his later leaping

blocked pass on defense;

Yishai Yamini breaking up a touchdown pass in the en-

dzone, and Jonathan Lubels two (count them, two) 20-yard catchesone for a touchdown. There were so many great plays and fast-moving plays and touchdowns and turnovers Im not even sure what the final score was. (But I think it ended a tie.)

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was not available. Moshe Juni did a special hand trick. Binyomin Kre-mansky breakdanced. Yishai Yemini made some very interesting clicking noises with his mouth and Daniel Bren-ner karate-chopped with a long stick. Moshe Badush did a cool card trick. The Pollack boys and Yoni Galen joined for a musical production and Yosef Rosner bal-anced a bat on his fin-gers. Yisroel Arbiv sang a beautiful English song. Levi Goldman did some-thing with his shoulders but we are not sure what; but the winners were: David Bril, Shlo-mo Goldenberg, Eitan Goldman and David Kallush. They did a real-ly cool dance to the tune of Yesh Tikva. (If I hear that song one more time, all hope is lost.) Great Job guys! Swim and Park followed. Another great day at Camp Achdus!

Friday

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue But not in Camp Achdus! Oy Vey!!! We are going on a massive hike today but the sky looks ominous! Achdus shall prevail though. We shall go on the hike and rough it. After all whats a good hike without a little rain? Bunks Alef and Ches go on a bit of a shorter hike, Eat a delectable lunch made by their mothers and then get to feed the Kachkees (Thats Yiddish for duckies). Daled, Vov and Sof rough it out. Up the mountains, down the Valleys and hopefully somewhere over the rainbow. Have a great Shabbos!

Hillel Friedman walked all around the playing fields, collecting the cones after everyone else went inside!

Yaakov Nisenfeld and Shmuel Jacobs saw Rabbi Goldstein picking up garbage outside and offered to help!

When the ATV stopped working, Yosef Kahn and Levi Goldman pushed it around the track with their campers riding on it!

Rabbi G. Goldstein

Efraim Pollack used his own precious swim time search for Reuven Rudin's goggles...wow, what a tzadik!!!

Chaim Leib worked with not-so-backbreaking effort to rid the floor of the noodles which were residing there!

Hillel Friedman and Dovy Ellman reported an error in the gemara points that they would have received!

Mendy (of Mendy Music) showed unbelieve-able gevurah when he kept on singing his beautiful music even when his audience consisted of just one campers and two over-excited counselors!

Rabbi Goldstein showed extreme persistence in his efforts to retrieve some campers from the pool. After persistently trying to enter the Ganz Van with the incorrect key, the holy Rabbi was persistent in finding the correct key. He continued to be persis-tent throughout the drive to pick up the boys and continues to be persistent in the reading (and typ-ing) of this gevurah note. IYH, he will be persistent in his persistency!

Chanoch Ganz almost exploded with giborness when he threw his refuse towards the rubbish can, but missed (OH, NO!). He stopped in his tracks, whipped around, snatched the trash from the floor, and nicely dropped it in the bin!

General Zecharya Michelsohn wore the invisi-ble gevurah hat when he worked on the yearbook / newsletter instead of doing other possibly more fun things, like Mendy Music, lunch, Mendy Music, etc.!

Dovy quickly listened to his counselor without delay!

Aviad demonstrated astounding gevurah when he excitedly cleaned and straightened up the Bunk Ches Kuttun bunk room!

Daniel I., Chaim S., Yona Tzvi M., Tuvia R., and Yonatan L. were mivatter being in the skit be-cause they were needed for the dance!

Josh Rosen, Yoni Galen, and Moshe Badush held strong against heavy peer pressure and bentched really nicely!

Efraim Pollack used his own money to buy a soft pretzel for a friend who was hungry!

Yisroel Meir Burger, Simcha Press, and Bin-yomin Rosskamm spent countless hours, mamash ad ein shiur, being matriarch while they could have

been relaxing, in order to do a chesed for Tuvia by cleaning the Ganz van. Wow!

Akiva Logue

Efraim Pollack cleaned up the bunk room!

S. Kaplun

Uri Meth leant his goggles to a friend who need-ed them!

E Pollack

Avrohom Zev was playing with a toy his sister wanted to use and even when it was his turn to use it he still let his sister use it before his turn was over!

Yaakov Arye & Ciril Abraham

Tzvi Shmuelevitz stayed inside the crosswalk while crossing the street!

Yehuda Nissim Silverman and Tzvi Oshinsky came down from on top of the cabinet right away when told to!

Levi Goldman

When selling canteen, Shlomo Goldenberg is very patient and clear with customers!

Seth

Yona Tzvi brought his little brother up to take a bath and helped him in the bath in such a responsi-ble way!

Chaim Leib showed a lot of empathy when Mommy hurt her foot yesterday. He ran to get ice even though Mommy didnt ask!

Yona Tzvi gave Bubbie such a warm greeting at our family BBQ and made her so happy! It is a big mitzvah to show respect to elderly people!

Yona Tzvi helped his younger brother get dressed this morning! What a chessed!

Mrs. Miller

In spare moments, Simcha chooses to spend his time reading medrash and other Jewish books.

On Sunday, Simcha proudly took charge of a new route for JRA food deliveries. And then he went to visit his grandmother who wasn't feeling well.

Simcha's Dad

Simcha gave away a gift to a friend eventhough he really wanted it for himself

Simcha's Mom

Yona Tzvi helped prepare for his family BBQ with zrizus!

Yonatan Hassidim had an amazing bentching! Oriel Gola had an amazing bentching even

though everyone else had already bentched and he was the only one in the bunk bentching! 5

Chaim Leib Miller

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Miller,

Mazal tov on Chaim Leib's completion of his Gibor Chart! I can attest that Chaim Leib has been working energetically toward completing this chart for weeks. And now, his efforts have paid off! Today, the cele-bration of Chaim Leib's accom-plishment elicited song and cheers from campers and coun-selors alike.

Rabbi G. Goldstein

Reb Gedalia:

Anything positive you can come up with to focus his ener-gies on is a great thing. We are both elated (and relieved) to know that he has completed the chart. Thank you for the bracha and for the dedication by you and your staff in making this a memorable summer for our kids.

Elie and Tehila Miller

Simcha Kaplun

Just moments before Fridays dismissal, Simcha received his sixteenth gevurah entry, thus completing his gevurah chart! Mazal tov, Simcha and Mr. and Mrs. Kaplun! We cant wait to celebrate this monumental ac-complishment next week! May you merit continuous growth and boundless nachas until the coming of Moshiach; may it be speedily, in our days!

Charts

Complete!

MONDAY

Bunks Alef, Ches, and Daled to Sahara Sams In-door Water Park! Departing from camp at 12:45 pm Arriving in Bala Cynwyd (making all regular stops) at about 6:00 pm Arriving at Algon and Griffith at about 6:00 pm Arriving at Tomlinson at about 6:15 pm Bring water gear for trip.

There will be no regular swimming.

TUESDAY

All Bunks to The Rink (ice skating)! Departing from camp at 10:30 am Returning to camp at 12:30 pm Bring warm attire for ice skating. Bring swim suit for regular swimming.

WEDNESDAY

Bring swim suit for regular swimming.

THURSDAY

LAST DAY OF CAMP 2013 All campers from both sessions are welcome to

attend. Campers not registered for week 8, please RSVP.

Treats and Prizes!

Yearbooks and Yearbook Video!

No swimming.

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Upcoming Events

Bunks Alef & Ches Kattan

It's that time of the year that we think about decorating our sukkahs, wait a minute, it's too early for Suc-cos!

Yes, it is a bit early but we won't be in camp by the time yom tov is here so we need to make our decorations now. We used stars to made beauti-ful hanging decorations for our suk-kah. There were stars on the star and also stars hanging down from the

star. They looked so beautiful hang-ing from the hooks in the room! Eve-ryone was so proud of how their pro-ject looked when it was done.

Bunks Alef

Continuing on our decorating for the Sukkah, we strung beads made from straw. Bunk Alef Gadol wove the yarn thru both sides of the bead, it was hard at first but most of the boys really got the hang of it.

Bunk Alef Kattan also strung beads and straws, we made an alternating pattern with a straw bead and then a small plastic bead. Some of the boys wanted it to be a necklace for their moms and some were just long strands that can be hung up in the sukkah. The best part is that if it rains the decorations should not fall apart!

MRS. DORIS LIPSKY

This Week in the Arts

Even though he really didnt to, Simcha Kaplun brought in the EZ Rollers. What a tremendous display of chesed and courage!

Andrew Brenner

Chaim Leib Miller gave up his seat on the bus!

Josh Gordon

Moishie and Yossi had wonderful manners at supper saying please and thank you for everything!

Yossi brought napkins to the table without being asked!

Moishie put his clothes in the laundry with zrizus!

Itamar Gabbai

Nosson made a really good deci-sion and was a Gibor when he took care of Shaya even though, at first, he didnt want to!

Simcha has been speaking the emes about different things that hes been doing. That takes a real Gibor to

do the right thing! Simcha also shared his new gimp with Nosson!

Mommy Kay

Tzvi Ganz bentched very nicely!

Yaakov Horwitz

Simcha Kaplun brought in al-most all the hockey sticks without being asked

Y D Oshinsky

Efraim got ready for bed and stayed in bed so nicely even though his Mommy and Tatty were not home!

Efraim ate his supper so beauti-fully and was not upset that the hay ride he was supposed to go on was cancelled!

Mommy Glatt

Dovid Nulman was upset that the teams were not fair, but dealt with it maturely and kept on playing!

D Lubell