SHABBAT PINCHAS 2014 We are all sensitive to the circumstances in Israel. Our summer shlichim (staff who come as counselors and specialists from Israel) are certainly feeling the distance from home, but they, along with our Chalutzim campers, created a fabulous...
By Ana Apter, Interim Religious School Director at Mt Zion Temple in St Paul, Minnesota and Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, Am Shalom, Glencoe, Illinois This week in Kallah, our chanichim (campers) have been learning about the North American Jewish Experience, from entering the...
By Danny Altkorn, Rosh Eidah of Moshavah We just finished our third and final tiyul (trip) in Moshavah and now we can look back on the summer and reflect on what a wonderful success it’s been. As usual, the chanichim (campers) traversed the Kettle Moraine State...
By Aliza Ainis, Rosh Eidah of Tzofim Yesterday was an amazing day in Tzofim! In the morning, we hopped on the bus and went to a dairy farm and it was spectacular. We got there around 11:30am and we ate lunch and met some of the farmers who were going to give us tours....
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...
