Get to know our Summer 2025 Team! Meet Jackson, one of our Program Coordinators at LAJF and a Co-Assistant Camp Director.
Each summer at Camp Rising Sun is a reminder of what’s possible when young people from around the world come together to grow, lead, and connect. This year, we’re thrilled to welcome an incredible and diverse group of campers, but we’re also reckoning with who isn’t here and why.
Click to read this open letter to the CRS community from LAJF Director of Programs, Elyem Chej.
Get to know our Summer 2025 Team! Meet Chayel, our Program Coordinator at LAJF and one of this summer’s Assistant Camp Directors.
The CRS Israel Selection Committee hosted a three-day seminar in Jerusalem for incoming 2025 campers. It was a transformative experience, equipping the selected campers with the tools, perspectives, and community to represent Israel thoughtfully at CRS. Click to read about it.
Every month we send out an email newsletter to keep you — our community — up to date with everything going on at LAJF and CRS! If you aren’t already subscribed to our email list, please click here to subscribe. We’ll be sharing the link to the newsletter each month: Click to read the full February e-Newsletter.
Camp Rising Sun has an extensive global alumni community — with more than 6,000 alumni worldwide. Read this testimonial from alumna, Ruby Lainez, who attended CRS as a camper in 2010 and 2011 and has been continually involved as a summer staff member since then. Ruby is from Brooklyn, New York and she currently works as a school psychologist in New York. Click to read her testimonial.
Every month we send out an email newsletter to keep you — our community — up to date with everything going on at LAJF and CRS! If you aren’t already subscribed to our email list, please click here to subscribe. We’ll be sharing the link to the newsletter each month: Click to read the full January e-Newsletter.
Are you looking for support and guidance through the college application and admissions process? Join the CRS College Student Network mentorship program. We are looking for mentees, mentors, and volunteers. Click to read more and go to lajf.org/csnapply to apply today.
Every month we send out an email newsletter to keep you — our community — up to date with everything going on at LAJF and CRS! If you aren’t already subscribed to our email list, please click here to subscribe. We’ll be sharing the link to the newsletter each month: Click to read the full December e-Newsletter.
Read Haadia’s Story! When you support LAJF and Camp Rising Sun, change happens. The past year has reaffirmed just how important our work is, and with supporters like you, we can do anything. By making a gift to LAJF and CRS, you'll be making a difference in the lives of our alumni like Haadia. Please click to read and donate to LAJF and CRS this holiday season.
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The Louis August Jonas Foundation (LAJF) and Camp Rising Sun (CRS) have a long-held commitment to the principles of diversity, stemming from our mission. In that spirit, LAJF and CRS do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, nation of origin, gender, sex, or gender identity.
