Meet Our Hava Nashira 2020 Faculty

Meet Our Hava Nashira 2020 Faculty

Cantor Rosalie Will – Hava Nashira Program Director   Cantor Rosalie Will mentors clergy in the field and consults on issues of worship, music, and synagogue transition and change. She also serves as the Director of Worship and Music for the Union for Reform Judaism...
Meet Our Hava Nashira Faculty

Meet Our Hava Nashira Faculty

We have an amazing faculty for this year’s Hava Nashira Songleading Workshop. Cantor Rosalie Boxt, Hava Nashira Program Director Cantor Rosalie Boxt is the Director of Worship and Music for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ).  She also mentors clergy and...
Back to Camp Night

Back to Camp Night

By Jay Rapoport, Kallah Segel and Director of Lifelong Learning at Temple Sholom of Chicago, and the creator of “Ruach Rock,” original Jewish music for kids, teens and families. www.ruachrock.com Like any kid on the precipice of summer at a new sleepaway...
Back to Camp Night

Song and Creation – Reflections on Shabbat Shira at OSRUI

By Rabbi Larry Karol, songwriter, performer, Rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Las Cruces NM, and OSRUI alum  I am sure that if you had asked me about what I would be doing after turning 60, I wouldn’t have imagined that I would I be participating in new conferences...

Mahj!

by Denise Heimlich, OSRUI Staff Member and Mah Jongg Player The sound of tiles clacking on the table evokes clear memories for some women of mom playing mah jongg while children try to sleep down the hall or upstairs.  Others are the first of their families to take up...