School may have just started but we are already getting excited for Summer 2019 at OSRUI! Registration opens Tuesday, September 25th! 9:00 am (central time) Please read this entire email for important information and updates to registration and the 2019 camp season....
We are excited to announce that Geoff Prass will be joining the OSRUI staff on September 4th as our Operations Manager. He’ll be a key member of our full-time staff: his responsibilities will include managing our year-round rental business and other pieces of the...
Parshat Re’eh: Looking to the past and the future Dear OSRUI Families, It is hard to believe the end of summer has arrived! It has been a great final week at camp! Gesher did an outstanding job hosting our all-camp carnival Thursday night. Moshavah enjoyed their final...
by Jami Goldberg, Gesher Rosh Eidah (Unit Head) I can’t believe our session is almost over! We have had an AMAZING last week at camp, with a tiyul (trip) to Madison, concluding chugim (electives), and our big end of the session event – Gesher Carnival! We...
by Leah Sherin, Tiferet Rosh Eidah (Unit Head) When I walked in to visual arts studio this morning, I found 16 chanichim (campers) silently sitting around a table in the art studio. On the table was a display of bagels, milk cartons, cereal, and fruit, and in front of...
by Rabbi Debbie Helbraun and Rabbi Scott Gellman, Gesher Segel (Faculty) It’s obvious why a Jewish kid from an active family belonging to a URJ synagogue winds up at OSRUI for summer camp. It is not obvious to many of our kids, however, how they will formulate,...