Susan B. Stone, President of Camp Ramah has announced that Marla C. Berkowitz, president and cofounder of the Jewish Deaf Resource Center, Inc. in New York City, has been appointed as Director of the Kesher Programs for Jewish Deaf at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. Berkowitz becomes the first Deaf person to direct the program which provides educational and recreational programming to Jewish families with one or more deaf members and traditional overnight Jewish camp designed to meet the needs of deaf boys and girls. The first Deaf graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary with a Master’s in Jewish Education, she also serves on the board of the Jewish Deaf Congress. “My dream is to have a career that would enable me to work in the greater Jewish community on a full-time basis,” she says, “Serving as Director of the Kesher Programs is helping me fulfill that dream.” She will commute to the camp’s Jenkintown, Pennsylvania offices during the winter.