By Vanessa Ehrlich, Educational Director at Lakeside Congregation in Highland Park, IL Every day in Kallah Gimmel may have a similar format but the surprises are what all the chanichim, madrichim and Segel anticipate with great relish. Our Boker Tov in the morning is...
by Benyamin (Bruce) Herst, OSRUI song leader from 1974-1982 and currently an active musician, music teacher, performer, and song leader. If you’re like me and you spent years at camp you might still tell time in the summer by your unit’s daily schedule. Wake up at...
SHABBAT PINCHAS 2015 It has been a week full of activities from one end of camp to the other and beyond! Yesterday, our Chalutzim campers presented a wonderful service for the whole camp as part of Yom Yisrael (Israel Day) which was produced by our Israeli shlichim...
SHABBAT BALAK 2015 In a few hours lots of you will be celebrating the 4th of July with BBQ’s, parties and fireworks, but here at OSRUI we have been celebrating all week. Monday was opening day for Kallah and Tzofim with a smooth opening that got all of our campers in...
SHABBAT CHUKAT 2015 We sure are sad to be saying l’hitraot to our Kallah and Kibbutz HaTzofim campers, most of whom will be leaving this coming Sunday as our Aleph sessions close. It has been a whirlwind 13 days chock full of all kinds of activities. We have been...
By our Tzofim Segel: Jessica Barolsky, Rabbi-Director of Lifelong Learning at Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun in Milwaukee, WI and Rokki Parinello, Co-Principal at Beth Tikvah Congregation in Hoffman Estates, IL. Often times, when we say we are going to camp,...
