Council of American Jewish Museums

Amy Skopp CooperOral History Interview

Amy Skopp Cooper, director of the Ramah Camping Movement, was interviewed by Elizabeth Kobert on August 18, 2021, for the Collecting These Times oral history project. Amy Skopp Cooper, who lives in Riverdale, New York, and Jerusalem, Israel, discusses her leadership role at the National Ramah Commission, the difficult decisions to close camps in 2020 and reopen in 2021, medical guidance for the camps throughout the pandemic, and the emotional costs of camp closing.

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Amy Skopp Cooper

Elizabeth Kobert

MPEG-4

Camp Ramah

medical decisions

summer camp

disconnected from Jewish community

humility

cancelling camp

building teams

TheirStory

Jewish Theological Seminary

Cooper_Amy_Skopp.mp4

8/18/21