After completing 10th grade, teens from all three Cohen Camps—Tel Noar, Pembroke, and Tevya—join up for the Dor L’Dor Travel Program: an intensive month typically in Israel, a trip that is physically, spiritually, and intellectually stimulating. We strongly believe that direct experience of Israel is integral to the way each person develops their Jewish identity, values, and character.

Then our own teens may return to Camp Tel Noar for 2.5 weeks as CITs, for reflection, leadership, and reconnection with the Tel Noar family. As CITs, they will get hands-on counselor training, shadow  staff, and work directly with campers. They will also participate in lessons that strengthen their Jewish identity and prepare them for future leadership roles: at camp as a Junior Counselor next summer, and in the world.

Dor L’Dor gives our teens an opportunity to create a personal relationship with the historical, religious, and cultural aspects of the Jewish people, lands, and heritage. Younger campers relish the weekly Shabbat updates sent in by the Dor L’Dor travelers and the stories they hear upon the teens’ return. This opportunity for campers to learn from “near-peer” teens and then become the role models themselves is a distinctive feature of the Cohen Camps’ approach.