Its time to step back and reconsider the whole “color war” shtick at summer camps in the broader context of global geopolitics and militarism. Parents sending their pure yiddeshe neshamas to a summer camp do not expect them to be indoctrinated in the barbaric violence of milchama and instead hope they learn to peacefully engage with those bunks whose residents they disagree and sit around the campfire and sing “Oseh Shalom” to the melody of Kumbayah. As chazal bring down the inyan of “Make Love Not War”, summer camp must reinvest itself in this pacifist model.
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