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Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/25/the_loudest_memories/
New England Camps Comfort Israeli Children from Bombarded City
[Boston Globe] Steven A. Rosenberg - The children began to cry and shake when they heard the thunder and saw the lightning during the camp dance. One girl fainted. Another hugged a counselor so hard that she dug her fingernails into the woman's back. Everyone had the same thought: The boom from the sky was a Kassam rocket. The boys and girls had traveled from Sderot, Israel, one mile from Gaza, to spend a month at Jewish camps in New Hampshire and Brighton, Massachusetts. Eliaev and the 18 other children from Sderot have been in the Boston area since June. The Russian Jewish community in Boston raised $62,000 to pay their way, in hope of returning the children to normalcy, if only for a month.