Our International staff have made it safe and sound to Oconomowoc for OSRUI 2016! Isaac and Sammson, from Uganda, will be in Gesher this summer! Our Mishlachat from Israel includes madrichim (counselors) for Chalutzim and our moomchims (specialists) who will...
By Jake Beckert, Rosh Eidah of Chalutzim What a busy week! Two of the most anticipated days of the summer, Yom Yisrael and Yom Horim, with hardly a moment in between. Theodore Herzl once wrote a book about Israel titled Altneuland, old new land, as Israel is...
By Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D., National Director of Recruitment & Admissions and President’s Scholar, Office of Community Engagement at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Scholar-in-Residence at OSRUI. Jewish values and Hebrew...
By Jake Beckert, Rosh Eidah of Chalutzim Chalutzim has started off with a bang, lots of sunshine, and of course Rak Ivrit (only Hebrew)! From the moment the chanichim (campers) arrived they have been talked to exclusively in Rak Ivrit by their madrichim (counselors)....
