By Rabbi Frederick Reeves, Rabbi at KAM Isaiah Israel in Chicago IL, and Tzofim Segel I write this having completed my first week of Jewish camp. Not only my first week at OSRUI, not only my first week as faculty, but my first week ever at a Jewish camp. When one goes...
Here’s to Our Lives Poem by Dani from Chalutzim, read at Mesibah We live our summer in fragments, Camera snaps and flashes of lightning too quick to grab on to but undeniably true. We are fragments of our summer. Of our camp. Of the brink of our lives. We are...
By Alison Lewin, Director of Education at Emanuel Congregation of Chicago, and Tiferet Segel The same thing happens every June. I start telling people that I am going back to camp (now as a faculty member, though I began as a camper 20 years ago in Tzofim Gimmel...
By Libby Fisher and Max Antman, Rashei Eidah of Kallah We can’t believe it has only been a week since the Kallah Bet chanichim (campers) arrived at OSRUI! We have already participated in so many fun activities! On Thursday, Noam Katz was here to and performed an...
