PETALUMA, Calif. — One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Another was adopted in Uganda by a white Jewish woman; they now live in Montana.
Like many of the young people who shared challenges and adventures with them this summer, they grew up often feeling like outliers — and then found a near-magical comfort zone at Camp Be’chol Lashon in the rolling hills of California’s Marin County. Its founders say it's the only sleepaway summer camp specifically serving Jewish children of color, creating a safe space for candid conversations on race and identity.
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Baileigh Davis, 11, of Houston, left, and Apiyo Bocast, 11, of Bozeman, Montana, laugh while swimming in the lake July 27 during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a Jewish sleepaway camp for children of color in Petaluma, Calif.
Isaac Harrison, the 10-year-old from Oakland, went to a traditional Jewish summer camp last year and said he was bullied by some campers for being Black.
“There were no kids of color there,” he said, “Some kids kept saying that you can’t be both Black and Jewish. They said that you can’t be two things. They were just being really mean, but here no one’s mean like that.”
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Isaac’s mother, Jennifer Harrison, was relieved to find Camp Be’chol Lashon.
“If camp this summer didn’t work out, we were going to be done with Jewish camps,” she said.
Over the past 14 years the camp has offered children like Isaac a haven where they don’t have to explain their identity or downplay a part of who they are. It functions as an extended family for campers who are often the only Jewish child of color in their hometown or treated more as a curiosity than a full-fledged member of Jewish or Black communities.
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Judah, 10, of Vermont, center, and Kallie House, 12, of Sugar Land, Texas, right, react July 28 after the prayer over the challah bread is recited during Shabbat at Camp Be'chol Lashon in Petaluma, Calif.
“If it’s just Black people and you say that you’re Jewish, they just don’t get it," says Baileigh Davis, 11, of Houston, who is the third generation of Black Jews in her family.
The U.S. Jewish population remains overwhelmingly homogenous in its racial makeup, with 92% of adults identifying as white, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center survey. But there are signs the nation’s Jews are becoming more diverse, especially among younger generations. Compared to 8% of all Jewish adults, 15% of those ages 18 to 29 identified with a nonwhite category.
At the camp, each morning begins with a lesson on global Jewry. For example, there’s Pirate Day, when campers learn about Jews who were expelled to the Caribbean during the Spanish inquisition and found livelihoods as pirates.
Some of the campers have Jamaican heritage, including Josiah Spencer, 15, grandson of the Be’chol Lashon organization’s founder, Diane Tobin, and son of Sarah Weinberg, the camp director.
“It’s like a family and having been here makes people more comfortable when they’re not here,” said Josiah, who attends a Jewish day school in San Francisco.
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Maya Johnson, 7, of New York, is playfully swung into the lake by her friends July 28 during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color in Petaluma, Calif.
When the camp opens, each child gets a booklet called Passport to Peoplehood, with questions about their nationality, ethnicity and favorite foods. Asked if another language besides English is spoken at home, hands shot up — answers included Spanish, Zulu, Swahili and Bulgarian.
Although most campers this summer were from Northern California, other home states included Texas, Montana and New Jersey; one came from South Africa.
“We were looking for a place where (Isaac) could celebrate both of his identities,” said Rashad Harrison, Isaac’s father. “There are very few African American spaces where Judaism is embraced.”
At the end of one busy day, campers gathered in the art room, surrounded by projects like the mezuzahs and menorahs they had made at camp. That night's game was “Jewpardy,” with questions reflecting the diversity of Jews, including Black Jewish musicians such as Drake.
After evening s’mores, in the flickering light of a campfire, 8-year-old Abey Levine belted out a rendition of, “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars. Cheering campers hoisted him atop their shoulders.
“We searched all over the country for Jewish camps that had diversity,” says their mother, Vanessa Levine.
“It feels like we are all together — we are different but the same at the same time,” said camper Okech Odola, 13, who lives in New Jersey. Odola’s father is Ethiopian, and at camp, a half dozen campers who were adoptees from Ethiopia met for the first time.
“It’s important to me to stay in contact with my Ethiopian culture,” said Ruby Beerman, 14, of Marin County. “It’s been really good to meet other people that have similar stories.”
“When I was younger, I felt so alienated and so alone. I get told every day that you’re different, you don’t belong here, because I’m part of so many different minorities,” she said. “And here is kind of a place where everybody belongs to a lot of those minorities. … Not everybody is the same here, but we’re all different together.”
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Surrounded by campers who will have their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs this year, camp director Sarah Weinberg speaks July 29 about the week's Torah portion during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color, in Petaluma, Calif.
“My grandmother is well known in the San Francisco Jewish community. My grandfather is Black and so is my dad," Sheftel-Gomes said. “That’s part of why camp is so important, to give me the language to identify what I was experiencing without knowing why.”
Be’chol Lashon, which means “in every language” in Hebrew, views its mission as honoring the global nature of the Jewish people.
“There are Jews in Africa, Jews in Iraq, Jewish people in China and India,” said Weinberg. “It’s only in the U.S., where a majority of Jewish people are of Eastern European descent, that Jewish equaled white.”
Many of the campers identify as mixed race. Aesa Masliyah, 16, of Oakland, represents multiple heritages; his grandparents were Iraqi, Israeli, Ashkenazi, Jamaican and Dominican.
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Zohara Grossman-Naples, 15, of Philomath, Oregon, center, hugs younger campers July 28 as they roast s'mores during a fire pit at Camp Be'chol Lashon.
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Isaac Harrison, 10, of Oakland, Calif., is embraced July 29 by his new friends, including Naftali Torres, 10, also of Oakland, left, and Mkale Friedman, 10, of Philadelphia, as Isaac prepares to leave Camp Be’chol Lashon.
Shortly before sunset the group gathered around a pole with words of peace written in multiple languages including Hebrew, English, and Spanish. Campers embraced as the Havdalah candle was lit, hugging their new friends tight. Most planned on returning next summer.
For Isaac Harrison and his family, the camp offers a new hope for the future.
“You send your baby somewhere and hope. And the fact that here there was so much representation, it means everything,” said Jennifer Harrison, mother of the child who was once told he couldn’t be two things. “Now he can go through life knowing how much of his experience, and the way he is, and who he is, is also out there."
Summer camp for Jewish children of color ‘a place where everybody belongs’
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Maya Johnson, 7, of New York, is playfully swung into the lake by her friends July 28 during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color in Petaluma, Calif.
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Isaac Harrison, 10, of Oakland, Calif., is embraced July 29 by his new friends, including Naftali Torres, 10, also of Oakland, left, and Mkale Friedman, 10, of Philadelphia, as Isaac prepares to leave Camp Be’chol Lashon.
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Zohara Grossman-Naples, 15, of Philomath, Oregon, center, hugs younger campers July 28 as they roast s'mores during a fire pit at Camp Be'chol Lashon.
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Surrounded by campers who will have their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs this year, camp director Sarah Weinberg speaks July 29 about the week's Torah portion during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color, in Petaluma, Calif.
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Judah, 10, of Vermont, center, and Kallie House, 12, of Sugar Land, Texas, right, react July 28 after the prayer over the challah bread is recited during Shabbat at Camp Be'chol Lashon in Petaluma, Calif.
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Baileigh Davis, 11, of Houston, left, and Apiyo Bocast, 11, of Bozeman, Montana, laugh while swimming in the lake July 27 during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a Jewish sleepaway camp for children of color in Petaluma, Calif.
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Wearing bandanas for "Pirate Day," Major Smith, 10, right, looks to Sasha Wernick, 11, of Brooklyn, as they dress up July 28 celebrating the Jewish people of the Caribbean during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color in Petaluma, Calif.
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Eli, 12, of Phoenix, Ariz., left, and Sasha Wernick, 11, of Brooklyn, catch and release fish July 28 during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color in Petaluma, Calif.