Photo: Friendships were made and common experiences shared last summer at an overnight camp for Jewish Deaf boys in Upstate New York. The campers came from the United States and Israel.
By Menachem Posner
May 10, 2015 3:26 PM
The first in a series of articles on Chabad-Lubavitch summer camp.
For most of his childhood, 12-year-old Joel Pennington was unique. He was the only child in his Houston, Texas, neighborhood who was Deaf, and one of the only Jewish students in the special school for the Deaf that he attended in Austin.