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My parents really enjoy spending yamim tovim together as a family and this year I was the only one of my siblings that was supposed to be at home, explained counselor Avi Gordon, who was almost unable to join the HASC event. However, when he was approached to take a specific camper who he had supervised this past summer and who would otherwise be unable to attend Simchaton, Avis parents quickly agreed that he should go in order to bring simcha to this child and his family. Similarly, about a dozen other out-of-town counselors flew in from Israel, Toronto, Los Angeles, and other places just to join their New York/New Jersey friends in spending two days caring for the campers with whom they had developed such strong relationships over their summers in camp.
As one of the organizers of this eventalong with Avi-Gil Chaitovsky, Liz Sinnreich Lasher, and Yudit Gluck, camp director Samuel Kahn, and program director Avi SacksI was privileged to get a firsthand account of the appreciation the campers parents have for the staff of HASC. As I was about to try and persuade the mother of a little girl, who had just spent her first summer in camp this year, to send her daughter to the Simchaton, she brushed aside my prepared words, insisting that her daughter, who had a fantastic time in camp, would definitely derive an incomparable amount of simcha with her counselors at this event. In fact, one parent confided in me that her only regret was that there was no way on yom tov to capture on camera the smile that she was sure would light up her sons face as he danced with the Torah and reveled in the attention of his camp friends.
Even though the parents of our beloved HASC campers did not get to witness their sons aliyahs or the other fantastic ways that counselors include their campers in every aspect of the Simchas Torah experience, other guests at the hotel surely did. From young to old, people who were not a part of this HASC program let us know that they were delightfully aware of the simcha that our crowd radiated, and were in turn inspired themselves to a greater sense of joy.
While each year the feeling of simcha so clearly permeates the minds and hearts of HASC staff, parents, and outside observers, Simchaton prides itself most on weaving this feeling into the hearts of our beloved campers

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