More on Camp Yawgoog

I would like to update the article in the August [2025] issue about the Jewish Committee on Scouting by mentioning that Camp Yawgoog celebrated Rabbi Sol Goodman’s 25 summers at camp (along with his wife SueAnne) on Aug. 26 at the staff’s end-of-summer banquet. I was amazed how he would begin a short moral teaching, only to have the entire staff shout back at him the ending of his sentences. He had a truly receptive audience among the couple of hundred mostly college-age staff members, very few of whom are Jewish.

It is worth noting that each week, Camp Yawgoog welcomes an average of 1,000 scouts and (adult) scouters, or approximately 8,000 individuals each summer (in addition to camp staff), who all interact with Rabbi Goodman, the senior chaplain at the camp.

Larry Katz

Providence, R.I.