July 14 – July 25 EDT

Specialty Nature Camp

Adamah Nature Camp offers a week-long adventure connecting campers to nature through exploration, sustainable crafts, wilderness skills, and scientific discovery – all rooted in Jewish wisdom. Activities include hiking trails, exploring forests and ponds, observing wildlife, and fostering an appreciation for nature’s beauty. Participants will learn wilderness skills such as shelter building and fire creation and engage in exciting scientific experiments. 

Inquiries about programming can be directed to detroit@adamah.org, while camp policies and registration details can be obtained from the friendly camp staff.

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This summer, we are offering two weeks of Adamah Nature Camp: 

Junior Specialty Adamah Nature Camp – July 14^th – July 18^th  

• Campers entering 1^st – 2^nd grades in Fall 2025 

Specialty Adamah Nature Camp – July 21^st – 25^th 

• Campers entering 3^rd – 6^th grades in Fall 2025 

To register, visit the JCC Day Camp website and look for Adamah Nature Camp listed as a Specialty camp and a Junior Specialty camp. 

Our Nature Camp SOLD-OUT last year, so please register soon to ensure you have spot in this special program.  

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July 21, 2025

Through immersive nature adventures – swimming in the creek, exploring meadows, hiking in the forest, working the rich soil on our farm – Adamah Adventure Camp is the place to be this summer for rising 1st-8th graders!…

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Sigi Koko Clay Plaster Workshop

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July 24, 2025

Whether you’re a corporate group, nonprofit team, or professional network, this is a great chance to give back while learning sustainable building skills in a collaborative, outdoor setting….

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July 24, 2025

“Each year we look forward to your family farm camp. To see our children grow from year to year is truly a blessing. We also get to see their ability…

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Step away from the rhythm of everyday life, as we intentionally create, “an island in time.” Together, through the study of ancient Jewish wisdom and the practices of yoga and other guided activities, we will reveal and illuminate the Torah within our body, mind, heart and soul. …

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Community Plastering Day

July 27, 2025

| All Ages Welcome | Registration Required | Rain or Shine! | Come get your hands muddy and your heart full. Whether you’re 5 or 85, join us for a joyful, family-friendly day of plastering, laughter, and connection. Help bring the amphitheater to life—no tools or experience needed!…

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Way of the Wilderness | Tending the Wild, Caretaking the Land, Rewilding

July 27, 2025

In this class you will start to learn why eco-systems collapse when indigenous peoples are removed from their land and how native people gathered from the land in such a way that animals, food and biodiversity were greatly increased in their ecosystems. Class will include some caretaking the land projects. This class is my personal favorite, and this knowledge is much needed in the world today….

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July 21 @ 9:00 am – July 25 @ 4:00 pm

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 22 @ 9:00 am – July 23 @ 5:30 pm

Help bring Pearlstone’s new Myerberg Stage at the Greenwald Amphitheater to life in a community-wide workshop celebrating the beauty of natural building.

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Join Sigi Koko, Master Builder in Sustainable and Natural Design

Learn practical plastering techniques, connect with community, and be part of a sustainable building project. No experience necessary!

What You’ll Learn

• Ingredients for basic clay plasters, including high straw fiber content
• How to test soil for clay content (and other sources of clay)
• How to develop your own clay plaster recipe
• Mixing techniques for fibrous clay
• Best practices and tips for plaster application

No prior plastering experience required—just bring your curiosity and willingness to get your hands dirty!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to work side-by-side with Sigi Koko and support the creation of a sustainable community space.

“This is more than a workshop—it’s an opportunity to build community and shape the future of sustainable architecture.” – Tiffani Irwin, Director of Sustainable Facilities, Pearlstone

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 24 @ 9:00 am – July 25 @ 5:00 pm

4-Hour Shift AM and PM each day or Full-Day Option includes Lunch

Build Together. Make an Impact.

Whether you’re a corporate group, nonprofit team, or professional network, this is a great chance to give back while learning sustainable building skills in a collaborative, outdoor setting. No experience necessary!

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Bring your friends and/or your team for a hands-on volunteer experience that blends sustainability, teamwork, and community spirit. No experience necessary!

Why Natural Plaster?

Natural plasters are beautiful, breathable, and built to last. Made from simple ingredients—clay, sand, straw—they’re non-toxic, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Great for interior and protected exterior surfaces, these materials support both your health and the planet. Learn more here.

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 24 @ 3:00 pm – July 27 @ 11:00 am

Retreat, Farm, Learn and Celebrate at Family Farm Camp!

Family Farm Camp brings together families for an immersive experience of learning, playing, celebrating and community building.

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“Each year we look forward to your family farm camp. To see our children grow from year to year is truly a blessing. We also get to see their ability to integrate environmental knowledge and Jewish knowledge into harmony in one complete package. Some of our very closest friendships have been solidified through family camp.”

Retreat Details

Earth-based Jewish wisdom is woven into campfire songs and storytelling, wild edible walks and brachot (blessings), high adventure ropes course & team building games, night hikes, and of course a vibrant and joyous Shabbat celebration! Kids get a taste of camp while parents and teens enjoy their own earth-based, camp-vibe exploits.  Family Farm Camp will then join Adamah Adventure Camp for the highlight of their week, the famous Shabbat Party!  

For questions about Family Farm camp, contact registrar@adamah.org

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2025 Pricing

• Standard Room Double Occupancy: $445 per adult
• Camping in our new Bunkhouse: $355 per adult
• Youth ages 5 – 12:  $270 per person
• Youth ages 2 – 4: $175 per person
• Up to 2:  $0 (but must be registered)

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Children’s rates assume sharing a room with at least one adult (13+), regardless of lodging style. There is a $300 additional charge for an extra room next door if your family needs additional space.

We are committed to making our programs accessible and affordable. Click here for our scholarship application. Scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis and scholarship funding is limited.

Program Highlights

Sample Schedule

Retreat

Relax in our natural setting and comfortable accommodations. Step away from your daily routine to enjoy quality time with your family in nature. Delicious, healthy farm-to-table food will be served throughout Family Camp, and our warm and dedicated staff will make sure that you are taken care of.

Farm

Get your hands dirty on our 5-acre, organic farm. Activities include harvesting fresh produce and preparing snacks and meals from our farm, visiting the animals, and tasting the summer’s abundance in our dining room’s meals. Our farm is a great way to connect to the land, the food we eat, and each other!

Learn

Parallel learning sessions for parents and children will ensure that everyone is learning at family camp from making pita over a fire to doing the high-ropes course to Jewish and environmental topics. Everyone involved will learn with their hands and bodies on Pearlstone’s beautiful campus, including the creek and nature trails. Traditional camp activities, such as swimming, sports, music, and arts & crafts will be enjoyed by all.

Celebrate

We’ll celebrate Shabbat in a family-friendly environment, building community with other young, Jewish families. Walk the nature trails, toast marshmallows and stargaze by the campfire, and celebrate the season at Pearlstone!

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 25 @ 3:00 pm – July 31 @ 11:00 am

A Torah Yoga Retreat: Awakening Our Ancestral Roots

Join Diane Bloomfield, Sharon Epstein and guest teachers

It’s the annual summer ingathering of Torah yoga practitioners, leaders, and seekers! We will connect to and strengthen our shared ancestral roots through Jewish text study, prayer and yoga practice, enriched by genealogy, art, dance, nature and food. Come celebrate the spiritual inheritance of our ancestors in body, mind, heart and soul.

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Come away with us this summer to a beautiful setting in the southern Berkshire mountains!

Torah Yoga Immersive Retreat: Friday, July 25 – Thursday, July 31, 2025

This experience is for anybody looking to join an uplifting and relaxing Jewish-inspired spiritual retreat. No previous yoga practice or Torah study is necessary to participate, all are welcome!

Retreat Details

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• Retreat Guides
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Pricing

All prices are inclusive of meals and program and teacher fees.

• Standard Room (Private Bathroom): $2,110 per person in double occupancy | $2,795 per person in single occupancy
• Basic Room (Shared full bathroom between two rooms): $1,830 per adult in double occupancy | $2,360 per adult in single occupancy
• Camper (bring your own tent, access to shared bathrooms and hot showers): $1,395 per adult (not per tent)
• Commuter (lodging not included): $1,395

Program Highlights

We will enter the retreat through the gateway of Shabbat. Our weekdays will be filled with the deep spiritual wisdom and light of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah and Rachel. We will also be inviting in our personal ancestors to guide and strengthen our lives.  

The ancestors are our ancient roots. In their lives is embedded the purpose of the Jewish people. In our encounter with them, we can come to know what G!d wants from us- the holy and the elevated. (Jerusalem Torah scholar, Nurit G’al Dor) 

All levels of religious observance are welcome. This experience is for all who are looking for a vibrant, inspiring spiritual retreat.  

All meals are kosher with vegetarian and vegan options. Meals are prepared using organically grown ingredients from the onsite Adamah Farm. 

Retreat Guides

Torah Yoga brings together an inspiring group of practitioners, teachers, and Rabbis who artfully combine ancient Jewish wisdom with mindfulness practices to reveal and illuminate the Torah within body, mind, heart and soul.

Diane Bloomfield

Diane Bloomfield has been a student and teacher of Torah in Jerusalem since the early 1980’s.  She is a pioneer in the field of Torah Yoga and the author of Torah Yoga: Experiencing Jewish Wisdom through Classic Postures and Playing with Fire: Hebrew Doorways to the Jewish Soul. Diane teaches Torah and Torah Yoga classes and retreats in synagogues, schools, and retreat centers in Israel, the United States and Canada, as well as on the web.  Diane lives in Jerusalem.
www.torahyoga.com

Nancy Wolfson-Moche

Nancy Wolfson is a nutrition and sacred eating educator, coach, chef, and author working with people of all ages to improve their health and well-being through making informed choices. Nancy elevates the practices of cooking and eating by infusing them with meaning expressed in traditional Jewish texts. She is the founder of FoodLab, a nutrition education program integrating food science and culinary arts. Her book, Vegetables for Breakfast from A to Z, invites the reader to re-imagine breakfast by enhancing it with fresh, seasonal produce. A certified Torah yoga teacher, Nancy has practiced yoga for over 40 years.   www.youarebecauseyoueat.com

Sharon Epstein

As a youth, Sharon Epstein sensed an inner Divine light of awareness while dancing in an Israeli folk dance circle in her Hebrew school courtyard. From that time forward, she felt a yearning for God, which she pursued through attending Jewish prayer experiences, studying dance, yoga and following a path into the healing arts.

Professionally, she worked as a dance therapist and then drawn to the depth and vitality of yoga, she became a yoga teacher. Sharon wanted to draw upon the profound wisdom of yoga and also revive, not ignore or abandon her identity as a Jew. She collaborated with her rabbi, Tara Feldman offering yoga classes inspired by Jewish holidays, text, metaphor and music. Together they authored a workbook, Into A Jewish Holiday Year with Yoga. Alongside her colleague and teacher Diane Bloomfield, Sharon is honored to create Torah Yoga retreats that will inspire meaningful connections and spiritual joy at the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center.
www.sharonepsteinyoga.com

Julie Emden

Julie Emden, E-RYT-500, Halprin Practitioner, is the Founder of Embodied Jewish Learning, which hosts an Advanced Teacher Training, and the Embodied Jewish Wisdom Network, a global collective of leaders and seekers of movement practices infused with Jewish wisdom. Julie has over two decades of experience guiding others in somatic explorations of Jewish wisdom teachings as a resource for living in balance and wholeness. 
www.embodiedjewishlearning.org

Arthur Kurzweil

Arthur Kurzweil is the author of the bestselling (over 50,000 copies), From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Family History and Genealogy and is the recipient of a lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Arthur is the author of The Torah From Dummies, Kabbalah for Dummies and his most recent book, The Talmud for Dummies. He is also the author of On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz, a memoir of his relationship with Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z”l. He and his wife, Bobby, share 13 grandchildren.
arthurkurzweil.com

For questions and more information about the retreat please reach out to Sharon at

levshalemyoga@gmail.com

860.824.5991 | freedman@adamah.org
116 Johnson Rd, Falls Village, CT 06031

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July 27 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Come get your hands muddy and your hearts full. Join us for a joyful, family-friendly day of plastering, laughter, and connection. Help bring the Greenwald Amphitheater to life—no tools or experience needed!

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No prior plastering experience required—just bring your curiosity and willingness to get your hands dirty!

What To Expect

• Hands-on natural plastering experience
• Connect with neighbors, friends, and fellow community builders
• Play with clay & learn something new
• All ages welcome—perfect for families!

Why Natural Plaster?

Natural plasters are beautiful, breathable, and built to last. Made from simple ingredients—clay, sand, straw—they’re non-toxic, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Great for interior and protected exterior surfaces, these materials support both your health and the planet. Learn more here.

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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SURVIVAL AND MENTORING SERIES

Learn the survival skills that people of the land all over the world have practiced for thousands of years. This course is for educators, extreme beginners, outdoor experts or anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of ecology.

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 27 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Come cool off from the hot summer days with all of your friends at the Pearlstone Pool!

Join us for a swim and poolside crafts, games, competitions, and dance breaks as we celebrate joy and community. There is fun to be found for all ages with our deep, shallow, and slide pools along with an array of additional activities for everyone to enjoy.

Sundays on the Farm at Pearlstone

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 28 @ 9:00 am – August 1 @ 4:00 pm

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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July 29 @ 12:00 pm – August 4 @ 12:00 pm

Wisdom traditions from across the world tell stories of communities and individuals finding deep, inner truth in the wilderness.

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Empowering a joyful, resilient generation of Jewish leaders

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August 3 @ 1:00 pm – August 13 @ 10:00 am

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Pearlstone | 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136
410.500.5417 | info@pearlstonecenter.org

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