Camp Interlaken JCC

Camp Interlaken JCC, formally The Steve and Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC, is a Jewish summer camp located in Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA. It provides residential camping for incoming 3rd through 10th grade Jewish children from around the world. The camp has been affiliated with the Milwaukee Jewish Community Center; previously it was called Camp Interlaken of the Pines for Boys and operated as a private camp since 1935.

Jewish Living Magazine has ranked Camp Interlaken among the top Jewish summer camp in the country.[1]

History

Camp Interlaken was established in 1935, when Herbert Magida bought the Interlaken Hotel in Hartland, Wisconsin to serve as a summer camp for boys. In 1938 Magida moved the camp to a location in Eagle River, home to a number of other Jewish summer camps, where it remains. In 1948 Magida sold the camp to attorney Arthur Morse (owner of the Chicago Stags basketball team) and Joe Kupcinet, football coach at Taft High School and brother of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet. The Milwaukee JCC bought the camp in 1965.[2][3]

Activities

"Lake Sunset," a sunset over the lake at Camp Interlaken
Ben Golopol in a heated moment of Tushball, the unofficial sport of Camp Interlaken
A photo of Lake Finley, the lake on which Camp Interlaken is located, taken by the docks.

Individual Sports: Tennis, Gymnastics, Golf, Disc golf, Tushball, Ga-ga, Archery, Cycling, Fitness, and Rock Climbing Wall.

Team Sports: Softball, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Floor (Court) Hockey, High/Low Ropes with Zip Line. Ultimate Frisbee and Maccabiah.

Waterfront Activities: Waterskiing, Wake-boarding, Knee-boarding, Windsurfing, Sailing, Small Crafts, Swimming, Life Guard Training

Cultural and Creative activities: Ceramics, Fine Arts, YOGA, Aerobics, Modern Dance, Theater, Theater Tech, Israeli Dance, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Preparation, Woodworking, Crafts, Guitar, Photography, Video, Nature, Fishing and Shabbat.

Tushball

Tushball is a sport played with a volleyball, a roof, and a line of players creating an extended volley off the roof. Similar to Knockout, you have to be better than the person in front of you. Unlike Knockout, you play it on a long flat inclined roof with a volleyball.

The first person throws the ball on the roof. The next person then also has to throw the ball on the roof before it touches the ground. However, they may not touch the ground while touching the ball, jumping, like Tips. Tushball was first played in the early 1960s at Camp Timberlane,[4] but with the ball being tapped like a volleyball instead of caught and thrown, and players not having to leave the ground.

Notable attendees

Former Hall of Fame NFL football coach Marv Levy spent several summers in the 50's working at Camp Interlaken[5] when it was run by Joe Kupcinet, before it was owned by the JCC.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Camp Interlaken named among 'Top 10' Jewish summer camps", Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, February 8, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Memories of Camp Interlaken", Chicago Jewish History, Summer 1999 p.10ff.
  3. ↑ Irv Kupcinet, "Kup's Column", Chicago Sun-Times, October 14, 1994  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
  4. ↑ Marks, John (August 6, 1976). "Tushball: Up and Coming Sport". Timberlife Magazine 2 (2).
  5. ↑ Patricia Hersch (1999). A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence. Ballantine Books. pp. 137ff. ISBN 978-0-345-43594-1.
  6. ↑ Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?, Sports Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-58261-797-X

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Coordinates: 45°53′56″N 89°24′06″W / 45.898872°N 89.401621°W / 45.898872; -89.401621

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