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• Grades K-6
• Summer camp: Swimming,
field trips, cooking, Rock Show,
arts & crafts, music, Israeli
culture, sports, STEAM
• School-break camps
• Kosher lunches
• Infant-kindergarten
• Year-round program with
flexible scheduling
• Four-Star Quality First site
• National Early Childhood
Program Accreditation
• Low student-to-teacher ratio
• After-school enrichment classes
Campers try out the new 18-hole disc golf course.

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room. “We’re excited to be able to bring
more artists in residence as well as pur-
chase new equipment — enabling us to
bring back this very popular activity for
all age groups,” said Slaton.

There are also new housing options
for campers. Last summer, in partnership
with Keshet, an organization that works
for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews
and their families, Camp Newman offered
several all-gender housing options for
specific age groups.

Slaton said that for more than a decade,
Camp Newman has been committed to
creating a true space of belonging for
each and every person, ensuring camp is
a gender-inclusive and expansive space,
and housed campers and staff based on
their gender identity and where they felt
most comfortable.

“This opportunity enabled both camp-
ers and staff who feel most comfortable
in an all-gender space — whether they
are nonbinary, transgender or an ally —
to have a housing option at camp that
deepened the feeling of belonging. We’re
excited to continue offering this option,
along with a male and female housing
option, for sessions with campers in sev-
enth to 12th grade.”
The tents or cabins are created based
on interest and age group and are opt-in,
which means families indicate their hous-
ing preference upon registration. Staff for
all-gender housing receive additional train-
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ing to ensure campers are supported and
can co-create a living space that feels truly
comfortable, with communal norms and
expectations, grounded in Jewish values.

SINCE 2017, THANKS TO
THE INCREDIBLE AND
GENEROUS SUPPORT OF
THE COMMUNITY AND
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO
REIMAGINE OUR SITE
WITH BOTH FUNCTIONAL
AND ACCESSIBILITY
UPGRADES IN MIND.

“The process of creating a brit kehillah
(community covenant) is one that every
cabin at camp creates,” said Slaton. “All
campers have access to single-stall, all-
gender bathrooms throughout camp,
along with private showers and changing
space.” In addition to summer camp, Camp
Newman holds events throughout the
year, including family weekends and family
camp. They are hosting open houses for
new campers on Jan. 15 and Feb. 19. JN
For more information, visit campnewman.org.

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LOCAL Jewish Arizonan named one of top female scientists in
nation, world
SHANNON LEVITT | STAFF WRITER
W hen Nancy Eisenberg began
her career in 1977, there were
relatively few women doing research in
developmental psychology. Throughout
her 44-year career, she’s watched women
increase in numbers until they reached
parity and even a majority of professionals
in the field.

In that time, she’s also racked up a
number of impressive achievements. The
latest is being named 133 on Research.

com’s list of top female scientists globally
— and the top Arizonan; nationally, she
ranked even higher at 86.

Research.com’s stated mission is to
help academics and students in various
scientific fields find publications and con-
ferences around the world to assist their
work. Every year the organization creates
a list of top scientists through metrics
such as the number of scientists’ citations,
publications, awards and achievements.

This is the first year Research.com
created a list of the top 1,000 female
scientists globally and nationally.

“Of course, it’s nice,” Eisenberg told
Jewish News after learning her ranking.

It wasn’t a complete surprise, however,
since she’s been ranked highly in other
groupings of scientists.

Eisenberg was born in Cincinnati,
attended the University of Michigan
and then the University of California,
Berkeley, for her doctorate, which she
received in 1976. The following year, at
26, she landed a tenure-track position at
Arizona State University, where she stayed
until her retirement in 2021.

Her research is ongoing and she is
still the associate editor of American
Psychologist, an academic journal.

“I just don’t have to go to meetings,”
she laughed.

This career wasn’t always a given.

“I was always expected to go to college,
being from a good Jewish family,” she
said. She was valedictorian and an out-
standing science student in high school,
but science didn’t excite her. But because
she thought being a good student meant
science, she started out in microbiology.

“My first course bored me to death.

But then I took a psychology course,
and it just interested me. From there, I
started taking more and more psychology
and something about it just clicked with
me,” she said.

Eisenberg’s work focuses on develop-
mental psychology, including the topics of
prosocial behavior, empathy, emotional-
ity, self-regulation and adjustment. Her
research is multidisciplinary and looks
at various factors, including personal-
ity development, cognition and moral
reasoning. “When I started, no one was looking at
the role of self-regulation in sympathy and
prosocial behavior and few people were
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