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Ed Gelb

Sep 6, 2021, 7:46 PM

An Inside Look: Running Camp Ramah During Covid

A year ago, after a devastating summer without camp, our senior leadership turned our sights on making sure that camp opened in 2021. I hadn’t even heard of Ted Lasso at that point. All of us believed that we...

Jul 24, 2020, 11:44 PM

Confederate Statues and the Road to Idolatry

The first two of the Ten Commandments lay out the biblical prohibition of idolatry. We worship God and not objects. For most of my life, I didn’t consider public statues or works of art as idolatry. In my mind,...

About Me

Rabbi Ed Gelb has served 15 years as the CEO/director of Camp Ramah in New England. Ed joined CRNE after a successful five-year tenure as director of Camp Alonim, which is affiliated with the Brandeis Bardin Institute. Raised in Wyoming, Ed is a longtime Ramahnik, having served on the staffs of Ramah California and Canada. Ed currently serves as head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Maimonides School. Prior to directing Camp Alonim, Ed was a teacher, administrator and basketball coach at Yeshiva University High School in Los Angeles. Ed received his ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and graduated from UCLA with a BA in History. He lives in Sharon, Massachusetts with his wife, Tami, and their children, Yoni, Emma, Tova and Zachary.