Our story
58 summers on the same mountain
1968 — the beginning
Rabbi Avrohom and Ester Farber
The Farbers came to Tannersville because the mountaintop was where Jewish families already spent their summers. The synagogue was here. The community was here. What was missing was somewhere for the children to go while their parents worked — somewhere that would give them more than a way to pass the time.
Seven children came that first year. The camp grew the way those things grow: one family telling another, one summer at a time, until a rented house was not enough and the fields on the mountaintop became home.
Our history
From seven children to three generations
1968
The Beginning
Rabbi Avrohom and Ester Farber open Camp Sharon in a rented house on Grey's Lane with seven children.
1972
A home of our own
On August 19th, 1972. The congregation sold the Henry Rem Youth Center property on Spring Street to Rabbi Farber for a permanent home for Camp Sharon.
1975
Spring St
The camp continued for the next two seasons in Platt Cove until finally moving in 1975 to their permanent home.
1998
Camp Sharon Adds Olympic Pool
In 1998, the Farbers invested in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, significantly enhancing the camp's recreational facilities and amenities for campers.
2017
Rabbi Farber passes away
Patriarch of Camp Sharon, Rabbi Avrohom Farber, passes away, passing Camp Sharon on to new leadership.
2026
A new chapter
The Jewish Historical Mountaintop Society acquires Camp Sharon, committing to preserve its character and secure its next fifty summers.
Our community
The White Shul Congregation Anshei Sharon
The camp grew alongside the Anshei Sharon congregation, and the two have shaped each other for decades. Shabbat on the mountaintop became the anchor of the camp week — not as a lesson, but as the natural rhythm of a place where Jewish life was simply the air everyone breathed.
Families who spent their summers here often found their way to the synagogue, and families from the synagogue sent their children to camp. Three generations later, that circle is still turning.
Be part of the next chapter
Every summer here is built by the families who choose it. We would love yours to be one of them.
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