The basic principle of the camp was that all morning we studied Talmud and all afternoon we played sports and all night we did whatever the hell we wanted without supervision as long as we were awake the next morning for Shacharis davening. It was a strange unbalancing combination. It was an interesting experience for a few weeks, but it was exhausting and confusing and most of the time had very little to do with Judaism.
This made me think of the movie Unorthodox, which argues (convincingly or not--I think you would probably fall on the side of "not," and I don't honestly feel like I have enough first-hand experience of Orthodox Judaism to judge myself) that experiences like this are deliberately and successfully engineered to push questioning Jewish teens deeper into Orthodoxy.
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Date: 2016-08-26 04:05 am (UTC)This made me think of the movie Unorthodox, which argues (convincingly or not--I think you would probably fall on the side of "not," and I don't honestly feel like I have enough first-hand experience of Orthodox Judaism to judge myself) that experiences like this are deliberately and successfully engineered to push questioning Jewish teens deeper into Orthodoxy.