By Simon M., OSRUI Alum and NFTY-CAR participant Last week, our group spent four days on a program called Gadna. (It should have been five days but it snowed…..go figure.) Gadna is an army orientation program led by soldiers. We spent our time there being treated as...
by Shore (aka Daniel Shore), OSRUI Alum and OSRUI Birthright trip staff The flight is so much f…wait, we’re off the plane already. Oh, well there’s one quick story I should recount. With 30 minutes left until landing in Israel, the pilot or someone announced,...
by Shore (aka Daniel Shore), OSRUI Alum and OSRUI Birthright Trip Staff How often do you arrive at the airport and within minutes have seen FOUR people you know? Okay, so maybe I set myself up for success when I agreed to staff a Birthright trip with a bunch of OSRUI...
by Shore, OSRUI Birthright Trip Staff As the song by Rabbi Larry Milder goes: Wherever you go there’s always someone Jewish You’re never alone when you say you’re a Jew So when you’re not home And you’re somewhere kind of...
Congratulations to OSRUI Alum Jason Brown on winning the U.S. men’s Figure Skating title this past Sunday in Greensboro, N.C. Jason became the youngest man to win a national championship since 2004. He totaled 274.98 points -a record for the event...
by Hannah Cohen and Moshe Rubin The day was finally here. On January 4, 2015, we joined the participants of Birthright Bus 316 gathering at Newark airport in New Jersey to prepare for our flight to Israel. Although we were anxious for Birthright to begin, we were...
