Henry S. Jacobs Camp

HSJ) is a Jewish summer camp run by the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), serving the Deep South (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Western Tennessee, and the Florida Panhandle).

[citation needed] In 1954, a group of Jewish parents primarily from some small towns of the Mississippi Delta began fundraising for a summer camp where their small-town children could meet each other in a Jewish environment.

In 1968 the land for the camp was purchased in Utica, Mississippi for $100,000 and construction began on November 9, 1969.

In 1979 the units were renamed Garin, Maskilim and Talmidim.

In 1988, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (now part of the Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life) was built.