B'nai B'rith Beber Camp is a 340-acre campground in
Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Mukwonago is a village in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 8,262 at the 2020 census. The village is located mostly within the Town of Mukwonago in Waukesha County, with a small portion extending into the Town of East Troy in W ...
. Formerly known as Burr Oaks prior to B'nai B'rith's acquisition on 17 May 1976, it was named in honor of
Sam Beber, the founder of
Aleph Zadik Aleph, in August of that year as B'nai B'rith Beber Camp.
Youth Camp
For years, there has been a camp for young campers at B'nai B'rith Beber Camp.
BBYO Leadership Training
As
BBYO
BBYO (formerly ''B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Inc.'') is a Jewish teen movement, organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The organization is intended to build the identity of Jewish teens and offer l ...
was expanding its leadership training programs in the summer at
B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp
Perlman Camp is a Jewish summer camp located in Lake Como, Pennsylvania, Lake Como, Pennsylvania, United States. The camp first opened in 1954 on the site of the former Camp Windsor; it has also been known as Camp B'nai B'rith (CBB) and B'nai B'r ...
in the 1970s, they sought a new location for a new two-week program that would “make the experience long enough to be meaningful and short enough to hold down costs for the participants.”
[Max F. Baer, ''Jewish Youth at the Bicentennial: Annual Report of the International Director'', 1975 (Washington, DC: B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, 3 April 1976), 9.] With this new program, BBYO would hope to re-emphasize its “strong trend toward in-depth training in leadership skills and in Judaism.”
Because of increasing and maximum enrollment at BBPC, the new Chapter Leadership Training Program began at B'nai B'rith Beber Camp in 1977 (BBBC), its name later changing to Chapter Leadership Training Conference (CLTC). 1980 marked the first year that CLTC expanded to two sessions,
[Sidney M. Clearfield, ''Something’s Happening! Report of the International Director'' (Washington, DC:
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, 9 November 1980), 13] eventually growing into more.
References
External links
Beber Camp Website
{{Summer camps in Wisconsin
B'nai B'rith
Jewish summer camps in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Waukesha County, Wisconsin