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Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, Camp Kinderland is a multicultural summer camp and community that honors our progressive secular Jewish roots through our commitment to economic, racial, and social justice.
Camp Kinderland is a summer camp located in Tolland, Massachusetts for people aged eight through sixteen. The camp's motto is summer camp with a conscience since 1923. The main topics of the curriculum are: equality, peace, community, social justice, activism, civil rights, Yiddishkeit, and friendship.
The Camper Recruitment Committee organizes and hosts open houses for prospective camper families, reaches out to personal networks to raise awareness about Camp Kinderland, and represents Camp Kinderland at camp fairs.
With 300 acres of our own forest to explore, we don’t have to go very far in search of the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Depending on our specialty staff, some summers our program focuses more on campcraft and low impact camping, other summers on nature and environmental exploration.
Camp Kinderland was established in 1923 by Jewish union activists in New York, who wanted to provide a summer escape from the city for working class families. The founders of Kinderland believed that Jewish culture includes a responsibility to social justice.
Evolving generations of campers and staff embrace a far broader and more diverse spectrum of issues and ideas that are expressed in the cultural program—including struggles for women’s and gay rights, and environmental justice—and a more multicultural outlook.
Camp Kinderland was founded in 1923 as a secular Jewish camp, and more than half of our children are Jewish or have one Jewish parent. Camp is completely secular with no religious observances or rituals of any kind.
