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Gindling Hilltop Camp

1968 establishments in CaliforniaReform Judaism in CaliforniaReform summer camps
Gindling Hilltop Camp
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. Gindling Hilltop has been described as "the prototype for the American Jewish youth camping movement".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 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 camp counselors, activity specialists, religious educators, supervisors (for programming, counselors, and counselors-in-training), and health personnel.

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