URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy
Create. Connect. Celebrate.
At 6 Points Creative Arts, participants are drawn together in a dynamic artistic community to experience camp, explore their passions, and improve their craft. With guidance from compelling role models who weave Jewish values, ethics, and tradition into their arts disciplines, campers challenge themselves to continue their development as artists, refining their natural abilities and acquiring new skills.
*We welcome transgender, intersex, non-binary and gender-non conforming campers
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Meet The Director
Jay Rapoport
Jay Rapoport, MARE, is thrilled to be leading the URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy team after several decades in Jewish camping. A passionate Jewish educator and musician, Jay holds a Master’s in Religious Education from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and a B.A. in Elementary Education and Music from the College of William and Mary. He earned the Reform Jewish Educator (RJE) title in 2019, recognizing his academic and professional accomplishments, and received the ARJE’s Yad B’Yad Award in 2020 for innovative programming and curricula.
Jay has served on faculty at URJ Camp OSRUI and the Hava Nashira Jewish Music Conference, and is a frequent presenter and performer at the URJ Biennial and other conferences. A pianist, vocalist, and composer of original Jewish music, Jay is a Featured Artist on Jewish Rock Radio (JRR) and JKids Radio, and a member of JRR Chicago Sings. He lives in Lakeview with his wife, Rachel, and their two children, Ruthie and Emet.
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