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'''Gindling Hilltop Camp''' is a [[Jewish summer camp]] administered by [[Wilshire Boulevard Temple]] in [[Malibu, California]] in Little Sycamore Canyon between the [[Santa Monica Mountains]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] on a coastal ridge, 750 feet above sea level. The camp serves approximately 120 campers, ages 7–15, and has a staff of about 40. Gindling Hilltop has been described as "the prototype for the American Jewish youth camping movement".<ref>Oliver, Myrna (August 2, 2004). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-02-me-wolf2-story.html "Alfred Wolf, 88; Noted Rabbi Started Jewish Youth Camps".] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
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'''''The Three Philosophers''''' is an oil painting on canvas attributed to the Italian [[High Renaissance]] artist [[Giorgione]].
It shows three philosophers — one young, one middle-aged, and one old.
The work was commissioned by the Venetian noble [[Taddeo Contarini]], a Venetian merchant with an interest for occult and [[alchemy]].
The painting was finished by [[Sebastiano del Piombo]].
 
Hilltop and its sister camp, Camp Hess Kramer, are run by Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps, an organization associated with the [[Union for Reform Judaism]]. The director of WBTC supervises both camps, but Hilltop is run on a day-to-day basis by a residential director. The camp's staff is made up of [[camp counselor]]s, activity specialists, religious educators, supervisors (for programming, counselors, and [[Counselor-in-Training|counselors-in-training]]), and health personnel.
''The Three Philosophers ''was finished around [[1509]], one year before the painter died. The picture has been reframed with nearly 1/5 width lost and its compositional balance destroyed<ref>[[Ernst Gombrich|Gombrich E.]]"A note on Giorgione's 'Three Philosophers' " Burlington Magazine, 128 (1986), p. 488 [JSTOR]; A copy by [[David Teniers]] shows rather faithfully the original disposition, see [http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2006/teniers/index.shtml]</ref>One of Giorgione’s last paintings, it is now displayed at the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] in [[Vienna]].
 
== History ==
The current name of the work derives from a writing of [[Marcantonio Michiel]], who saw it in a Venetian villa<ref>Marcantonio Michiel , ''Notizie d’opere di disegno'', manuscript, Venice (see Zeleny)</ref>. The three figures portrayed are allegorical: an old bearded man, an [[Arab]], and a sitting young man, enclosed within a natural landscape. In the background is a [[village]] with some mountains, the latter marked by a blue area whose meaning is unknown. The young man is observing a cave on the left of the scene, and apparently measuring it with some instruments.
Gindling Hilltop Camp was opened 1968 as a sister camp to Camp Hess Kramer because enrollment at Hess Kramer had become too high. The camp is named after Albert Gindling who worked on several of the Hess Kramer facilities.<ref>{{cite news | last = Jaffe-Gill | first = Ellen | date = May 23, 2002 | url = http://www.jewishjournal.com/education/article/hess_kramer_turns_50_20020524 | title = Hess Kramer Turns 50 | work = [[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|The Jewish Journal]]}}</ref> Camp Hess Kramer was the site of the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference (CYLC). The conference was founded in 1963 by [[Sal Castro]], a teacher at Lincoln High School> The annual three-day event was designed to inspire and motivate Chicano students in LAUSD high schools.<ref name="Haro">{{cite news | last = Haro | first = Carlos M. | access-date = January 17, 2021 | url = https://www.chicano.ucla.edu/about/news/commentary-cylc-location-damaged-woolsey-fire | title = Commentary: CYLC Location Damaged by Woolsey Fire| work =UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center}}</ref>
 
Actors [[Zachary Gordon]] and [[Alden Ehrenreich]] are among the camp's alumni.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/7-hollywoods-favorite-summer-camps-1130882|title=7 of Hollywood's Favorite Summer Camps|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 4, 2018|language=en|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref> Another notable alumni is singer-songwriter [[Alec Benjamin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alec Benjamin Alumni |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2582801268400826 |website=Gindling Hilltop Camps |publisher=Gindling Hilltop Camps}}</ref> The camp was destroyed on November 9, 2018 by the [[Woolsey Fire]]; as of early 2019, they were still in the process of rebuilding the camp.<ref name="Moche">{{cite web |last1=Moche |first1=Erin |title=Jewish Summer Camps Destroyed By Woolsey Fire |url=https://jewishjournal.com/online/241848/jewish-summer-camps-destroyed-fire/ |website=Jewish Journal |date=November 12, 2018 |accessdate=February 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/jewish-camps-woolsey-fire/|title=Will a Pair of Beloved Jewish Summer Camps Rise from the Ashes of the Woolsey Fire?|last=Stuart|first=Gwynedd|date=April 17, 2019|website=Los Angeles Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref> In the summer of 2019, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps temporarily relocated to [[California State University Channel Islands]].<ref name="Summer 2019 Location Reveal">{{cite web |last1=Seth |first1=Tobeyes |title=The location for summer 2019 is... |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I5FWtBEDB0&list=PLHMb_Ujs78gNVpGL9kxYNHKtEDkSHjGvj&ab_channel=WBTCamps |website=Youtube |publisher=WBT Camps |access-date=April 7, 2022}}</ref>
===Interpretations===
The general meaning of the work has not been clearly defined by scholars. According to a famous interpretation{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}, the three men would not be the three [[Magi]] facing [[Jesus]]'s grotto, but they would represent the three stages of human thought: the Renaissance (the young man), the Muslim expansion age (the man wearing a [[turban]]) and the Middle Ages (the old man). Other hypotheses connect it to astrological and alchemical theories, one of the philosophers being [[Contarini]], a scholar of those matters. {{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}
 
[[File:Buckhorn Camp.png|thumb|right|alt=A picture of Buckhorn campgrounds campfire and cabin area|Buckhorn campground]]
Augusto Gentili proposed that the picture illustrates the waiting for the Antichrist, based on conjunctionist astrology. On the sheet held by the oldest philosopher the word 'eclipsis' and an astronomical diagram can be seen. The [[great conjunction]] of 1503 and the eclipse the same year were believed to be signs anouncing its coming. <ref>Gentili A., ''Giorgione'', Giunti Editore (coll. Dossier d'art), 1999, (Googlebooks)</ref>.
 
In 2020, the camp's summer was spent on [[Zoom (software)|zoom]], free of charge.<ref name="WBT Camps Virtual Program">{{cite web |title=WBT Camps Virtual Program |url=https://www.wbtcamps.org/virtualprogram |website=wbtcamps |publisher=WBT Camps |access-date=April 7, 2022}}</ref> In 2021, and until rebuilding in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] is complete, the camp will be spent at Buckhorn Camp, located in [[Idyllwild–Pine Cove, California|Idyllwild, California]]<ref name="Buckhorn 2022 Location">{{cite web |last1=WBT Camps |title=Camp@Buckhorn |url=https://www.wbtcamps.org/our-camps/campbuckhorn |website=wbtcamps |publisher=WBT Camps |access-date=April 7, 2022}}</ref>
In a note about the picture G. C. Williamsom, early in the 20th c., stated that "It represents [[Evander of Pallene|Evander]]and his son [[Pallas (son of Evander)|Pallas]] showing to [[Aeneas]] the future site of Rome"<ref>G. C. Williamson, ed.,(1903), ''The Anonimo. Notes on Pictures and Works of Art in Italy Made by an Anonymous Writer in the Sixteenth Century'', (trans. Paolo Mussi), London: George Bell and Sons,p102 [http://archive.org/details/anonimonotesonpi00michuoft]</ref>. The possibility that the three men are [[King Solomon]], [[Hiram I]], King of Tyre, and [[Hiram Abiff]] has been advanced by Neil K. MacLennan and Ross S. Kilpatrick<ref>by Neil K. MacLennan and Ross S. Kilpatrick, ''King Solomon & the Temple Builders: A Biblical Reading of Giorgione`s Painting "The Three Philosophers" ''[http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/Giorgione_Three_Philosophers.html Heredom 9(2001)]</ref>.
 
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It has been suggested that the figure of the young man can be inscribed neatly in a right-angled triangle for which the [[Pythagorean theorem]] applies. Karin Zeleny, relying on a reading of [[Polydore Vergil]]<ref>Polydore Vergil, ''De inventoribus rerum, libri tres'', Venetia, 1499</ref> has proposed that the philosophers are the teachers of [[Pythagoras]] - [[Pherecydes of Syros]] and [[Thales]]. Thales has been painted as a Jew, while Pherecydes was mistakenly believed to be a Syrian<ref>Zeleny K., ''The Giorgione Code'', Kunsthistorisches Museum Papers [http://www.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Ausstellungen/2007/Bellini-Giorgione-Titian/GiorgioneCodeE.pdf]</ref>.This interpretation was modified by Frank Keim who claimed that the older philosopher is in fact [[Aristarchus of Samos]]<ref>Keim F., ''Die Entdeckung der Jupitermonde'', 2009, Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang Verlag. </ref>
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*[http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/Giorgione_Three_Philosophers.html]
 
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