It's all in the family

We'd like to wish a big, juicy
MAZAL TOV!
to longtime NAGEELA east and Jepli veteran staff member
Aron Lipman
Upon his engagement to former NAGEELA camper and staff member
Sara Zelka,
Sister of Aaron (Ethel) Zelka.

I cant remember...

I really do have a photographic memory



-- I just haven't developed it yet.

move it

Now that is COLD

Some people get this warm, fuzzy feeling when the hear Hava Nageela.
I just think this is kinda COOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prB1kNhnGPI&feature=related

What-ever

Whatever, like, I so, totally you- know, whatever.
You know what I mean? Whatever.
I mean, like according to like, Reuters.com, the word 'whatever' is like totally the most, like totally annoying word in like the whole English language. Sweet.
So like basically what that all means, is, you know, it's like totally not cool to say 'whatever', cause it's like, totally annoying, you know. Actually, whatever... Like, if u wanna like say it all the time, knock yourself out, cause whatever, I like really don't care. Or maybe I do care.
Whatever.

Finally made it safely back home. Just about 25 hours late. I guess that's taking 'Jewish time' to the extreme.

So bad rabbi Fromowitz is reading the Spanish side of the inflight safety card

Seated in front of the exit row, so that means can't even lean the chair back on a late night flight. Ouch

Almost there...

I won't count my chickens before they hatch... Meaning until I open my front door tonight. But, at least tonight we made it last security... At the gate now!
Granted the plane will not leave onetime considering they haven't started boarding yet for a flight that supposed to take off in 15 minutes.
It seems the saga has almost ended.

Stuck @ a railroad crossing. Will we make the flight?

Stuck in Chicago

Should have been simple, right? A one day conference in Chicago.

Well, it actually all started a couple of months ago when I heard that the National NAGEELA conference would be taking place in New York City. Naturally, as very organized people, we immediately booked flights. It was only after the flights were arranged that the location of the conference was switched to Chicago.
Ok. One strike, but we changed our tickets and now we're heading to Chicago. The flights from Las Vegas into the windy city are sparse, and we ended up scheduled on a 12:50AM flight. After we get to the airport, we find out that the flight is delayed until 2:30.
Great.
We finally get into Chicago, where it's 7 degrees, as opposed to the 70 in Las Vegas. We swing by the place the meetings are going to be held and immediately begin ingesting large amounts of caffeine.
The meetings went pretty well. We made all kinds of great plans, had wonderful food, and I'm imbibed more caffeine.
Then our flight got delayed again. And again. Turns out theres this website where you can actually track your plane's progress in the air, as well as how many bags of peanuts each passenger managed to grab while the flight attendant wasn't looking. The wonders of technology!
This website told me that our plane was still somewhere over Georgia, and would depart Chicago at 11:59pm. Great, that means I wouldn't be home until at least 1am. Well, what can you do? I get to the airport at 11:00, and it completely dead. Nobody behind the airline counter.
We ask the guy mopping what's going on, and he tells us that the security checkpoint is closed.
"well how am I supposed to get to my flight?"
"you're not."
"but we just called the airline, and after a while of trying to find someone who spoke English, they told us the plane is still on the ground!"
"you're also on the ground and you are going to stay that way."
"Is there a single security checkpoint in this airport that is open?"
Now you might be thinking, "This is Chicago O'Hare, the busiest airport in the world... How is it possible that there aren't any open checkpoints?"
No idea.

It's the next day, and I'm still in Chicago. Naturally, the airline put us on the NEXT flight out, which is 24 hours later. At least they have good burgers here.

I'll keep on updating...

Free ipod nano!

That's right. Get an iPod nano.

This is NOT a raffle, offer or contest. You do not have to write an essay, have the winning ticket or stay on top of a bucking horse.
It's simple.

Download, register, rock.

Every camper that signs up to camp nageelawest before the end of the year (by that I mean before new years) will get a new nano!

Visit www.nageelawest.org to register and win!

Hava Nagila in STYLE

Check out this guy's moves.

Awesome Chanukah Music Video!

Amazing Football Trick Play

It's a boy!

Mazel tov to long time NAGEELA head lifeguard and administrator Shaul Leiser on the birth of a baby boy!

First shabbaton in the books!

This past weekend was the kickoff shabbaton... The first Nageela Las Vegas shabbaton is now in the books, with games ,songs, ice cream and laser tag!
We had special guests, as Nageelawest counselors Debra Willner and Sarah Benedict flew out for the shabbaton!

Next time you are at laser tag, watch out for 'pickle juice'.

Ding!

What do you get when you cross a canon and a bell?

A boomerang.

Mazel Tov

MAZEL TOV
TO THE ENTIRE NAGEELA FAMILY
And especially to Nageela founders
Rabbi & Mrs. Shenker

upon becoming grandparents!

New one day video

Check out this cute one day video by an unnamed relative of mine.

I need some novocaine

Be kind to you dentist



He has fillings, too...

Shopping, anyone?

When you’ve seen one shopping centre, you’ve seen a mall

Whats this world coming to?

This article from reuters...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has joined Facebook, adding a presence on the world's most popular social network to the royal family's accounts on Twitter, photo-sharing site Flickr and YouTube.

The British monarchy's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/TheBritishMonarchy) does not allow users to "friend" the Queen or to send her messages, but offers updates on royal news and diary events.

By midday on Monday, a few hours after the page went live, 60,000 people had clicked to signal they liked it, meaning they will receive updates on the royal family's activities in their Facebook news feeds.

The page does not display personal details such as the Queen's relationship status, interests or political views.

Britain's royal family prides itself on keeping up to date with new technologies.

In 2008, the Queen uploaded a video to YouTube during a visit to Google's London offices, in 2009 a British monarchy Twitter account was launched, and a royal Flickr account was created this year.

ANNOUNCING CAMP DATES 2011!

NOTE THE CHANGES

Hot off the press (it's not even on www.nageelawest.org yet), here are the dates for NageelaWest 2011:

Boys: July 3rd- July 25th

Girls: July 27th- August 17th

Registration opened November 14th!

Rabbi Locker loses contest!

I know, I know, I never, ever, ever lose. I's just one of those things.
I've got enough material to make fun of my opponent if I wanted to... I'll concede defeat.

Welllllll?

A friend told me he dug a hole in my backyard and filled it with water.


I thought he meant well.

Is that really all on an iPhone?

Thanks to Yehuda for showing me this crazy talent!

Mazel Tov

We would like to wish a
MAZEL TOV
to veteran Nageela counselor
Hudi Appel
on getting engaged!

Yipppeeee!

More pain

This duck walks into a bar and orders a beer.

"Four bucks," says the bartender.

"Put it on my bill."

Funny?

Pencils could be made with erasers at both ends, but what would be the point?

Deep thoughts

Light travels faster than sound.

This is why some people appear
bright until you hear them speak.

Groooaaaan

Why do doctors feel fine on ships?

Because they are accustomed to see sickness.

Camp Date Progress

Working on Camp 2011, and it seems now, that we'll be adding a few days to each session.
More NageelaWest! What more could you possibly ask for?

Stay tuned...

Hail to the Chief!

The Nageela Camping Network
wishes a HUGE
Mazal Tov
to long, long time
Nageela and JEPLI
CHIEF

Dovid Abrahamson
upon his engagement to

long time JEPLI leader

Odelya Naamat

Post your personal mazal tov message by clicking on this.
Or this
Or this

Funny Signs of Utah (and Wyoming)

ya just don't find signs like this in the city

photo credit: Josh Small (camp driver, boys division)

Beautiful Sights of Utah (and Wyoming)

The trademark of Majestic Ranch- Beautiful sunsets, and non- stop sprinklers!

photo credit: Josh Small (camp driver, boys division)

Caption Contest

Come up with a great caption for this pic, and post it to the comments below, or email it to info@nageelawest.org

You're supposed to do WHAT with the fish???

Each year, as I serve the head of a fish as part of the traditional ROsh Hashana meal, there is always someone too grossed out by the thought of actually looking at a real fish (albeit a dead one).

Well you aint seen nuttin till you check out this article from reuters...

Circus forced to stop live fish regurgitation act

You just can't make this stuff up!

Very, very nice

Here's a cute video of a favorite Nageela Shabbos song. Thanks to Azi for posting it on nageelaboys blog!

Photo Caption Contest

Here's a pretty random picture from NageelaWest girls' session. Come up with the funniest caption for it.

Beautiful sights of Utah (and Wyoming)

Check out the bird in flight. Awesome!

Photo credit: Josh Small

Strange signs of Utah (and Wyoming)

yup. it's real

photo credit: Josh Small

What do you call an illegally parked frog?



Toad

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN HIJACKED!

I HAVE GOOD NEWS, AND I HAVE BAD NEWS, AND I HAVE GOOD NEWS AND I HAVE BAD NEWS AND I HAVE GOOD NEWS, AND SOME MORE GOOD NEWS...

The good news is that Camp Nageela (the one on New York, the mothership, the original, the promised land, etc.) has finally gotten ITS OWN BLOG, so that Shaya and Azi can fight among themselves without bothering me! Here's the link: http://nageelaboys.blogspot.com/

The bad news is that they were sort of evicted... well, not exactly, but sort of, because...

THE GOOD NEWS is that Camp Nageela West has been an amazing success, and this blog is now the home of news jokes, updates, pictures and videos for CAMP NAGEELA WEST, which is...

BAD NEWS for me, because I enjoyed hosting all the Nageela East discussions, but it is still...

GOOD NEWS because Nageela East people are still invited here, and I'll be happy to post any info about it that you guys give me.

But the best news is for NAGEELAWEST people. Get involved, this blog is now yours! Post on the tagboard, comment on my posts, forward links to your friends! ENJOY!

New Slideshow

Take a look at the top of the blog for a slideshow of NageelaWest 2010 pictures. Click on a photo to see it full size!

Nageela (East) Color War Green TeamMusic Video

Continuing the tradition of excellence in Nageela Music Videos, The amazing Gollubes, along with the rest of the green team gang have put together solid competition for Boruch Reis.
You're all invited to NageelaWest next year :-)

Nageela (East) Music Video - ONE DAY

Leave it to Avi G. to make sure One Day made it's way to CNB East! With the extraordinary film talents of Baruch Reiss, and a little help from an underwater camera, AWESOME VID!

Traffic

If you think traffic is bad in New York or LA, try driving through Yellowsone National Park with hundreds of Bison crossing the orad!

Camp Nageela West Boys Highlights 2010

Check out the new NageelaWest FIRST EVER video on YouTube!!!

It's over!

CNW for boys is over! WHat an amazing 3 weeks it's been!

Camp NAGEELA west has officially begun!

Crocs?

I saw a sign in a store todat about crocs... but they weren't talking about the slipper.

but it was a leather store and they were selling croc and gator skins. cool!

I wonder if they come in orange>

San Francisco

I will be in San Francisco, San Jose, Sunnyvale and Oakland over the next two days.

If you know of someone who would like a private meeting to discuss NageelaWest, please have them email info@nageelawest.org.

There will be a NageelaWest BBQ in Sunnyvale on Tueday at 6:00pm, please email for details.

New AWESOME video

Mordechai Shenker has outdone himself! This is a takeoff on the Nageelastrong video we had this summer, but much, much cooler.

My opinion, best Nageela movie ever!

final logo

Here is the final version of the Utah Jewz logo. Enjoy!
Caps and polos arealready embroidered. Shirts should be going to print shortly.

New website

Camp Nageela West has made some changes to our website. In act, we've changed it completely. It's now, neater, more user friendly and informative.

check it out here.

You can also try the following links (they're the same) in honor of the NageelaWest logo.

http://utahjewz.com/
http://www.utahjewz.info/
http://www.utahjewz.org/
http://www.utahjews.org/

Welcome...

The West Coast welcomes

Yehuda Maryles

who will, G-d willing be moving to Las Vegas this summer.

Oy Veygas!

Good times (picture taken in 2003 at the 5 towns deli)

more old pics...

well, one of them, anyway...

I gets the havdalah candle. Don't ask me why...

This one's from 2005

Back when Shorties were Shorties

I came across a batch of really old Nageela pictures on my hard drive, so I'll look through them and post any that aren't too traumatic for ye' average folks to see.

Here's one of Shorty (before he was Rabbi Shorty) back in 202!

Whoaaa, look at those biceps, Azi.

I blew it way up, and I DIDN'T SEE A SINGLE MOSQUITO!

Teen Plurg

in honor of azi- a plug for the teen program

(and baby blue text... just like this year's Nageelawest shirts!)

HOT!

109 degrees today. Not bad.

Good day to bring out the kiddie pool in the back yard. No, no, not for the kiddies...

Thank goodness, Randolph, Utah is nice and cool!

Hey what's he doing here?

I have a SURPRISE GUEST at my house!

Throw him in the lake...

Oh wait, we already did! Here's Rabbi Shorty after flipping off t a kayak in Lakewood.

By the way, the water was up to everyone else's neck.

Jewish Camping comes to Northern Utah - Randolph, UT - AmericanTowns.com

Jewish Camping comes to Northern Utah - Randolph, UT - AmericanTowns.com

Good Shabbos

Wishing everybody a fantastic Shabbos!

Mazal Tov!

MAZEL TOV

to Nageela veteran

SHLOIMIE REICH

upon getting somebody to say YES!

Nageela Idol 06 Remix

Here's a serious blast from the past!

I was going through an old backup CD and I found a few great videos including this one:

Remix from Nageela Idol '06, featuring such all time greats as

Jeff Weisz on the yoyo

Goob blowing up his head

Jacob Smalkin folding his underwear

Simi Moskowitz's crazy bike jumps

Scott as Simon

Me as Randy? You gotta be kidding!

Matthew Wexler, who stole the 1st place vote with his performance of 'blowing in the wind',

and the first ever Nageela edition of Sam Lipke clapping a song!

the BIG Shabbaton

SO you all know that this week was the BIG Shabbaton in Long Island. In fact, I think it was the BIGgest Shabbaton in JEPLI's history.

I want to hear from participants. How was it? Who was there? Who wasn't (besides me)?

What was the best part?

Wayyyy too caffeinated

Is there even such a thing?

There's this great kosher coffee shop chain here in Vegas called the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

I often come here to learn or meet with people.

I've been here today for the past 6 and a half hours.

WAYYYY TOOOO MUCHHH CAFFFEEEIIINNNE!

someone get me some good old mountain dew!

New logo idea

This obviously would only work for NageelaWest. Here's what happened. I was listening to the radio in my car, and as a West coast community, they had the Lakers playoff game on. They are playing the Jazz... lightbulb!

Whadya think? Should I use it over gatorade or the PS3 logo?

Here's the big question- it's a great logo and all, but I still have to get the words 'camp nageela west' somewhere on the shirt. Any ideas on how to make it work?

NEW NAGEELA BASED WEBSITE

In a collaborative effort between the head counselors of the 3 Nageela branches (East, Midwest, West) we have launched a blog/site dedicated to one of Nageela's all time favorite topics- CHOLENT!

It is still a work in progress, but you can check it out at www.thecholentbowl..com

Cholent Tributes

Camp Nageela owes much of its culture to that wonderful staple of Jewish gastronomic phenomena called cholent.
We are in the process of developing a new site dedicated to the wonders of cholent, both in the serious, and in the humorous worlds. So:
1. I challenge you to write poetry declaring your love for cholent or describing its many attributes and accomplishments
2. If you have a good cholent recipe, or cholent cooking/ serving tip, send that in too.

The best ones will be published.
You can email them to dani@jepli.org, lockeroom@gmail.com, rabbilocker@lasvegaskollel.org, dani@campnageela.org, info@nageelawest.org, dlocker@nageelawest.org... the possibilities are endless!

Just got back from the nageela conference. I'll tell you all about it some other time, but as far as logos go, most of the ppl there seemed 2 like the gatorade best

A rough idea

Here's an updated version.
Props to Corky for the idea!

Please comment if you have any changes that need 2 b made.

A rough idea

I will, of course, make adjustments to the design.
Props to Corky for the idea!

It's that time of year again!!!

We need your ideas. Please tell me anything you got for logos.

compromise

Someone suggested that I compromise between the two logos. Please give feedback

JUst to Drive Azi nuts

because there is NO WAY I'm really using this

Skype logo idea

Here's another one

NageelaWest logo ideas

Here are two ideas (Okay, really just 1 idea, split into 2 possibilities) for a NageelaWest T- shirt design.

It is (obviously) based on the playstation 3 design. I think the top one is more authentic (looks like the 'S' in PS3), but is a bit harder to read.

What do you guys think?

Okay... any other ideas? I'm working on a few, but I'm open to new ideas.

Las Vegas Kollel Video

Ever wonder what it is exactly that I do in Las Vegas? Probably not. Either way, you can take a look at this video

NageelaWest names Girls Head counselor

We're excited to announce that the head counselor of the Camp NageelaWest girls division will be none other than Nageela veteran

Tzippy (Sherman) Holander

who brings years of experience and creativity to NageelaWest!

I saw the Signs

You gotta love Utah. There are all kinds of funny signs there. Here are a few that I saw on my recent trip (sorry, I didn't get pictures):

This handpainted sign was outside this tiny shack:

SMALLEST STORE IN UTAH

There was a progression of Xing signs that went as follows:

DEER XING

COW XING

TRUCK XING

GRANDPARENT XING

I kid you not. Utah, a truly unique place.

Letter 'B'

Don't even bother asking

No, No No! I will not let you see the music video I made for Shaya's sheva brachos! So stop asking! No...STOP~! rEAllY!

17 wheels on a big rig?

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17... wheels on a big rig...
I thought I saw strange things in Nevada, but that was before I drove through Wyoming!

Deep Thoughts

Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.

Mazal Tov

Camp Nageela (s) would like to wish a great big

MAZAL TOV

to veteran Nageela counselor

YONI POLATOFF

upon his getting engaged!

Woooohooooo!

Mazal Tov

Mazal Tov to

Sammy Lefkowitz

on his Bar Mitzva, this morning.

Re-Onion 2010

Thanks to Corky for sending me these pics from the reunion. Sorry I missed it this year.
Think maybe you're overdressed? Just a tad? What do you think this is? A paintball field?

When ice skating gets too tiring, you can always fall back on the good ol' Canadian pasttime of pressing your face against the glass.

That picture might look cooler on the beach, but...

I don't have a snappy cation for this one. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

Now I really feel bad that I missed it. Looks like everybody was there. Hope you had a blast! I hope I'll be able to come visit CNB this summer for a day or two.