Camp Shalom Seeks New Site After BOE Ends Deal By Jewish Link Staff | May 06, 2021
With the summer camp season on the horizon, the Teaneck Board of Education recently notified Camp Shalom that it was breaking its two-year agreement to lease Benjamin J. Franklin Middle School to the popular summer camp. The decision, sent by email to the camp’s directors, came as a shock to them, and has left hundreds of families who rely on the camp with no guarantee of childcare this summer.
In two separate emails to Camp Shalom’s directors, which were provided to The Jewish Link, lawyers representing the Teaneck BOE provided a range of reasons for the abrupt termination. In an initial email to the camp on March 29, lawyers for the BOE said the middle school, and all other facilities in the district, would be unavailable to the camp this summer–a fact that “it could not have reasonably known or anticipated.”