OSRUI Year-Round Staff Update

OSRUI Year-Round Staff Update

Dear OSRUI Community, For the last 20 years one constant at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute has been Susan Alexander’s leadership. As Associate Director, Susan’s impact is felt on all parts of OSRUI. So many of us have memories of Susan personally greeting every family...
Meet Our Hava Nashira Faculty

Meet Our Hava Nashira Faculty

We have an amazing faculty for this year’s Hava Nashira Songleading Workshop. Cantor Rosalie Boxt, Hava Nashira Program Director Cantor Rosalie Boxt is the Director of Worship and Music for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ).  She also mentors clergy and...
How My NFTY Experience Came Full Circle When I Launched My Career

How My NFTY Experience Came Full Circle When I Launched My Career

by Danielle Wright, OSRUI and NFTY-CAR Alum.  This originally appeared on the NFTY blog. In Judaism, and in life, a lot of things come full circle. Two weeks ago, my life once more came full circle when NFTY Convention was held at the Gaylord Texan hotel. I am...
Some Families Hand Camp Down Across Generations

Some Families Hand Camp Down Across Generations

by Rob Golub, from the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle When Karen Berk, now the director of administration at Congregation Sinai in Fox Point, attended overnight summer camp at OSRUI in the 1970s and ‘80s, it was where she developed her sense of Jewish identity. “It was a...
Updates for Summer 2019

Updates for Summer 2019

Planning for Summer 2019 has been going on for many months – hiring staff, planning programs, maintenance of camp buildings and grounds.  Now it’s time for us to ask for help from our parents.  We want to get to know our campers from the people who know them best …...
A Postcard from Camp: News from OSRUI Winter 2019

A Postcard from Camp: News from OSRUI Winter 2019

From the Director Recently, I had the pleasure of welcoming our 2019 Rashei Eidot (unit heads) and Segel (faculty) to camp for our annual Mid-Winter Planning Meeting. We are fortunate to have so many talented, thoughtful, caring, leaders who are deeply committed to...