Here is what you missed while we were away for Shabbat, banquets, trips to the museum with Tiferet, park with Chalutzim, and teva with Mosh, Closing day for Kallah, Tzofim, and Gesher Aleph, Opening day for Kallah, Tzofim, and Gesher Bet, Fireworks, the Fourth of...
There are things that happen at OSRUI that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. Like this past Monday, when we not only read Torah in the tradition of ancient marketplace readings, but the madrichim (counselors) actually created a morning marketplace for students to...
Imagine this….86 Kallah campers in a circle in Port Hall. In the middle of the circle is over 100 boxes. In the middle of the boxes is a Rosh Eidah. The Rosh pops out and spreads the boxes out within the circle. Campers go nuts over the boxes. OH, and the best...
Shabbat Chukat 2017 “The Attitude of Gratitude” What an amazing second week it has been at OSRUI. After a week of limmud (learning), omanut (art), water slides, tubing, wilderness trips, ivrit (Hebrew), field trips, evening programs, and so much more, Shabbat is here,...
People always ask me why I go back to summer camp every summer. Initially, I would tell them it was because I wanted to see all of my amazing friends that I grew up with or it was because it was a good way to make some money. But as my second week of camp comes to...
We paddled up to the first camp site after two encounters with the pouring rain. It was mud, sheer mud, deep, squishy, lose-your-shoes-in-it mud. The path to pull the canoes up was steep. The campers, staff and I were cold. But, together the group pulled the...
