Camp HASC

About Camp HASC

Camp HASC is a camp on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 269+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Camp HASC is the summer camp of the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, and its channel tells the story of its summers - one video for almost every week, from 2010 to 2026. Each week has its theme in its name: "Unpack Your Heart", "King of the World", "Light a Fire", "Welcome Home", "This Is Who We Are", "Building Bridges for an Amazing Summer", "Ein Od Milvado - There's No Summer Like This One", "Legends", "It's Not the End" - and with them the simchas in camp, the dedication of Sifrei Torah, and a greeting from the camp to the soldiers of the IDF.

The camp's own concert, "A Time for Music", brings its songs: the overture of the thirty-fourth concert, "Acheinu" with Abie Rotenberg and Baruch Levine, Abie Rotenberg's "Kol HaMeracheim" written for the camp, "Ve'ahavta" from the 2014 concert, "This Is We" with Shulem and Eli Schwebel, and Uncle Moishy live at Camp HASC.

Its staff learn as well as they sing. Rav Judah Mischel opens each summer with a sicha, speaks at staff orientation, gives a shiur on the Sichos HaRan - "The Joy of a Broken Heart" - and "The Questions We Ask", and says the kinnos of Tisha B'Av in camp with their explanation, "Kevodam shel Yisrael". Rav Moshe Weinberger joins a Leil Shishi with Zusha, Rabbi Shalom Rosner shares Torah with the staff, Rav Azriel Rosner speaks on believing in yourself, Harav Matisyahu Salomon on the angels in our midst, Rabbi Avraham Leventhal on serving the Jewish people, and a whole evening is given to the transformative power of tefillah.

The niggunim of the camp are sung by its rabbanim and friends: the niggun of the Kedushas Levi, the Rebbi-Talmid niggun, the song of Adam HaRishon and "Tzama" with Rav Dovid'l Weinberg and Rav Ari Yablok; Lecha Dodi with Rav Ari Waxman; Mizmor LeDavid, the twenty-third psalm, with Rabbi Dr. Benji Epstein; "Nigun Nevo", "Shabbos Kodesh" and "Rikud" with Shlomo Katz; "Nafsheinu" with Chaim Dovid; and "Habeit", "Es Tzemach" and "B'Shem Hashem" from the camp itself.

The channel remembers its own: a tribute and an in-camp memorial for Yisrael Noach (Yisno) Cantor, and a song dedicated to Dedi. It follows Team HASC at the Jerusalem Marathon, and Rav Berel Lazar's visits to the camp and to a HASC group home for Rosh Chodesh Kislev. Each video opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it.

You can search inside the songs by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Camp HASC to be told when something new comes in.