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Neshoma Orchestra! Neshoma is professional, talented, and does a custom job for EVERY simcha. Whether it is 5 piece band or 25 piece band, they do a custom job tailor to the style and songs you like! I’ve done three simchos with them and we are very happy. The biggest compliment I can give the band is that by my last simcha NO ONE needed ear plugs! Volume was perfect, loud but not not hurting the ears and music was amazing! I highly recommend Ari Boiangiu to lead the band. A mentsch and wizard on guitar!
I can answer your questions. I’ve worked at Camp Simcha for nearly ten years this summer.
1) You must be 18 years old to be a staff member (lifeguard, waiter/waitress, etc) and 19 to be a counselor. Occasionally they will accept a 17 year old with good references for a mother’s helper job to assist the head staff. 2)You should apply early in the school year. The deadline to apply and interviews begin approx December so make sure to check for the deadlines and get all the paperwork in on time. You find the applications and deadline information on http://www.chailifeline.org or http://www.campsimcha.org. 3)Camp has two sessions for boys and two for girls. (Camp Simcha for children with cancer and Simcha Special for children with chronic physical conditions). Each one is approx 2 week long. Depending on the calendar and yeshiva zmanim, some summmers it is 4 week girls in a row then boys and some summer it could be 2 weeks girls, 4 weeks boys, then 2 weeks girls again. The dates for next summer will be posted on the site once the applications become available.
The phone number for Chai Lifeline’s helpline is 917-710-8399
Chai Lifeline has a hotline set-up where you can speak with professional social workers and psycologists trained in dealing with such traumas. The hotline was set-up for parents to call with questions regarding what to tell their children.
The way I heard it, and I cannot back this up as I wasn’t there… The origins of the phrase “tuna beigel” was from a certain yeshiva back during the Veitnam War. When the draft was in effect, many frum boys enrolled in yeshiva to avoid going to the US army. As such, many chasidish boys, to whom the yeshivish derech was a whole other world, found themselves sitting in bais medresh. Well, there was one table in the back where the chasidish boys would sit and everyday they came to yeshiva with, yes you guessed it… Tuna Bagel Sandwiches. This led to the group being called “Tuna Bagels” – meaning, those boys who do not fit in with their surroundings. Today, we see tuna baigels as “modern” chasidish boys, cool chasidish boys, or rebelious chasidish boys. the term all gives the same conotation to all these types. When a person looks one way but acts another, not fitting in with the surroundings or when the picture doesnt match the actions. Chasidish boys who grew up sheltered, but now have every high tech gadet, cherry lights, and cell phone.
I hope this clears things up.
Sacrilege – as a recent graduate from a good law school, and as a volunteer in my school’s admissions department for six months, I can tell you first hand that law schools are decreasing the amount of BTL students they accept. NYU, Brookyln Law, Columbia, Fordham Law Schools have all eliminated BTL students or only accept a handful if the LSAT score is above average. The theory is that the law schools want to diversify the student body (there are hundreds of BTL applications each year) and many [not all]BTL student lack english reading and writing skills. While they may have the brains from learning in yeshiva, they lack the formal secular education required for success in law school and the legal profession. In my law school class, one student would frequently use “yeshivish” or yiddish words to the professor. Need i say more?