Sarah Chandler

It presents what sociologist Peter Berger calls a "plausibility structure," Or, as explained by Sarah Chandler, a five-year staff member at the Reform movement's Camp Eisner, "an alternate universe, where all the food is kosher and all your friends are Jewish."

It presents what sociologist Peter Berger calls a "plausibility structure" or, as explained by Sarah Chandler, a five-year staff member at the Reform movement's Camp Eisner and now a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary's Davidson School of Education, "an alternate universe, where all the food is kosher and all your friends are Jewish."
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"Camp shows what it would be like to be in a 100% Jewish community, so that when campers come out of that plausibility structure, they still recognize it as their own," said Chandler, who contrasted that whole- life-immersion experience with a visit to a synagogue, "which, on its own, may seem very alien."Sales and Saxe found that camp counselors often perform the vital function of Jewish role models, although they also found that most camp counselors are woefully underprepared (and underpaid) for the role.
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For example, Chandler attributes her decision to become a professional educator to her five years on staff at Camp Eisner in Great Barrington, Mass.She never was a camper herself, and first experienced a "full-time Jewish community" when she joined Camp Eisner's staff.Yet it was an experience she sought to replicate in college."I really missed the down-to-earth community of Jews who loved to sit and sing and celebrate Shabbat, and that's what I found in my chavurah at school," she said."It was like water to me." She is now pursuing a master's degree in informal Jewish education.So, what happens at summer camp is actually a very complex phenomenon.