What Does It Mean to be Jewish?

What Does It Mean to be Jewish?

Recently during the spring semester of NFTY-EIE Aaron Gertz asked his Jewish History students to write a blog about what it means to be a part of Am Yisrael (the Jewish People) Our own Jacob B., a junior from Carol Stream, Illinois, congregant of Congregation Etz...
PJ Our Way at Camp

PJ Our Way at Camp

  We are thrilled to inform you that OSRUI has once again been selected to participate in the Harold Grinspoon Foundation PJ Our Way at Camp 2016 Pilot, and your child will have the opportunity to participate in the program this summer.   What is PJ Our Way?...
OSRUI Reunion 2016 Video

OSRUI Reunion 2016 Video

Just a quick and awesome glimpse at the amazing time we had at OSRUI Reunion 2016 just a couple weeks ago!!!   Don’t forget to register for OSRUI 2016 at https://www.osrui-old-production333.urjyouth.com!     (Thanks to Vanessa Ehrlich and Rabbi...

The Last Week of Camp

by Rabbi Ike Serotta, Avodah Segel (Faculty) The weather in Oconomowoc is beautiful!  The evenings have that end of summer feeling and the kids are putting on longs and longs in the evenings.  More important is the feeling in the air as we enter the last week of...

The First Week of Tzofim Gimmel

by Deborah Goldberg, Tzofim Sganit Rosh Eidah (Assistant Unit Head) Tzofim Gimmel is off to a great start!  Our campers have had the opportunity to swim in the agam (lake) and the breicha (pool), to climb Etgar (the Alpine Tower), to learn Hebrew, to work with the...