by Vanessa Ehrlich, OSRUI Faculty Member and Director of Education at Lakeside Congregation, Highland Park IL Last weekend Lakeside and Or Shalom [in Vernon Hills, IL] went on their annual Fall retreat to OSRUI with 5th and 6th graders. (Or Shalom also had an adult...
by Rebecca Bloom, Chalutzim 2013 I spent seven weeks this summer speaking rak ivrit, only Hebrew, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The small town between Madison and Milwaukee may seem like a strange place to find a Hebrew immersion program, but along the shores of Lake Lac...
by Deborah Goldberg, Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and an OSRUI Alum. My first memory of being taught of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was during the summer of 2006 as a camper in the Hebrew-immersion program at...
by Steven Chaitman, Social Media and Digital Communications manager at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and an OSRUI Alum. When I graduated college, I really wasn’t ready for what would come next. I entered the University of...
