(JTA) — In the last several weeks, as parents have registered and paid for this summer’s camp season, a handful of families in New York City found themselves hung up on one day in their camp’s traditional programming. “In the past we know the Y has celebrated ‘Israel Day’ in various forms,” the families wrote in […]

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