Gindling Hilltop Camp

Gindling Hilltop Camp is a Jewish summer sleep-away camp administered by Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Malibu, California in Little Sycamore Canyon between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on a coastal ridge, 750 feet above sea level. The camp serves approximately 120 campers, ages 7-15, and has a staff of about 40. The residential director for Summer 2015 is Andrea Cohen. Gindling Hilltop has been described as "the prototype for the American Jewish youth camping movement".[1]

Gindling Hilltop Camp
camp
Nickname(s): 
Hilltop, GHC
WebsiteOfficial website

Hilltop and its sister camp, Camp Hess Kramer, are run by Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps, an organization associated with the Union for Reform Judaism. The director of WBTC (currently Doug Lynn) supervises both camps, but Hilltop is run on a day-to-day basis by a residential director. The camp's staff is made up of counselors, activity specialists, religious educators, supervisors (for programming, counselors, and counselors-in-training), and health personnel.

History

Gindling Hilltop Camp was opened 1968 as a sister camp to Camp Hess Kramer because enrollment at Hess Kramer had become too high. The camp is named after Albert Gindling who worked on several of the Hess Kramer facilities.[2]

Actors Zachary Gordon and Alden Ehrenreich are among the camp's alumni.[3] The camp was destroyed on November 9, 2018 by the Woolsey Fire and they are now in the process of rebuilding the camp.[4][5]

References
  1. Oliver, Myrna (August 02, 2004). "Alfred Wolf, 88; Noted Rabbi Started Jewish Youth Camps". Los Angeles Times.
  2. Jaffe-Gill, Ellen (May 23, 2002). "Hess Kramer Turns 50". The Jewish Journal.
  3. "7 of Hollywood's Favorite Summer Camps". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  4. Moche, Erin. "Jewish Summer Camps Destroyed By Woolsey Fire". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. Stuart, Gwynedd (2019-04-17). "Will a Pair of Beloved Jewish Summer Camps Rise from the Ashes of the Woolsey Fire?". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-22.

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