after the summer of 1999, macy hart (originally from winona, mississippi) ended 30 years as director of jacobs camp to focus full-time on running the institute of southern jewish life in jackson, mississippi. he was replaced by jonathan “jc” cohen (originally from tupelo, mississippi), who had been a dedicated camper and counselor at jacobs in the 1970s and 1980s. the daily schedule and unit set-up were modified a couple of times in 2000, 2001, and 2002 in an effort to improve the specialty programming at jacobs. for example, the concept of the talmidim intensive first appeared in 2000. also, in 2002 talmidim went back to being a four-week, regular-session program and entering 10th graders experienced the six-week chalutzim program for the first time.