David and Ziporah Ettenberg
Owners\Directors
and our kids Sam & Hannah

We want to introduce ourselves. We're David and Ziporah Ettenberg, the owners and Director of Camp Shane. Since 1968, thousands of parents have entrusted us with their children. Let us show you why.
You love and want the best for your child, just as we do for our own children. That’s why we run an extraordinary camp. We’re a camp that everyone is proud to be a part of - kids, parents and staff. We maintain high ethics and an overriding commitment to care. Our impressive facility, our superb, mature, adult staff and marvelous planning combine to provide the best camp experience you can find. Anywhere.

We make every camper part of the Camp Shane family. We get to know every camper. We visit the cabins, participate in the activities and talk with the campers. We create an environment where everyone feels comfortable and at home.

Yes, we're a weight loss camp, but we're not obsessed with dieting. Most important, our unique guidance program creates a total feeling of compassion and acceptance and that builds self-respect.

To make sure your child feels welcomed, well cared for, well respected and well loved. To promote a healthy diet and active lifestyle. We serve as positive role models upholding integrity, high standards of ethics, proper behavior among campers and effective, appropriate judgment dealing with children.

Parents often think of camp as a place for games and physical skills and traditions. But camp is much, much more. It is a vital companion to school as part of your child's total education. Camp is the chance to do and experience things way beyond the walls of the classroom.

Camp Shane, is a caring community that provides emotional safety and a very warm environment for every child. As a result, our campers try out new positive behavior - they reach out to make new friends - as others reach out for them. We actually have campers practice expressing caring thoughts about others, and resolving problems among themselves. We help show our campers what bonds them together and this good feeling reinforces their own self-respect.

Does all this sound like something that doesn't happen for your child back home, particularly during the school year? This is why Camp Shane makes such a big difference for so many of our campers.

Does it sound too good to be true?

Camp is a big decision for you and your child. If you're like us, you look for reasons to trust those who can help your child. Clear indications that you can rest easy.

David Ettenberg is a senior camp director with thirty-five years experience - all at the same camp! He has worked with thousands of campers and their parents. He possesses a wealth of skills and knowledge. David has dealt with nearly every conceivable situation and their solutions.

He is a Certified Camp Director, a member of the American Camping Association, and the New York State Camp Directors Association. In addition, every nook and crannie of the camp is inspected by the NYS Department of Health - which has the reputation of doing the most comprehensive inspections of any state in the country.

David provides the kind of mature judgment that you yourself would use. He has a great sense of humor, high ideals, loads of ability and - as a result - the respect of the campers.