By Evan Richter and Dylan Singer This Sunday, a group of OSRUI summer staff members, including Evan and Dylan, will be traveling together on a Birthright trip to Israel, led by OSRUI alum Daniel Shore. In just a few short days we’ll be getting on plane and traveling...
By Rabbi Jill Crimmings, Rabbi Educator at Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka, MN, and Tzofim Segel One of the things I love about camp is being able to escape the noise of society in favor of engrossing myself in the lives of our chanichim (campers) and...
OSRUI has a fabulous group of very talented staff members from Israel … called the mishlachat. They work in every unit, as counselors or specialists. https://vimeo.com/100521524
SHABBAT PINCHAS 2014 We are all sensitive to the circumstances in Israel. Our summer shlichim (staff who come as counselors and specialists from Israel) are certainly feeling the distance from home, but they, along with our Chalutzim campers, created a fabulous...
By Alison Lewin, Director of Education at Emanuel Congregation of Chicago, and Tiferet Segel The same thing happens every June. I start telling people that I am going back to camp (now as a faculty member, though I began as a camper 20 years ago in Tzofim Gimmel...
By Ilana Axel, Cantorial Soloist at Beth Tikvah Congregation in Hoffman Estates, and Chalutzim Segel Shalom! An old rabbinic tradition teaches that if we take time to recite 100 blessings each day, we then experience the world as being filled with blessing. Here in...