By Dr. Roberta Goodman, Education Director at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe IL, and Gesher Segel This week I went with Gesher, the unit for 7th through 9th graders with a leadership emphasis, to the Brewers baseball game. I felt a bit guilty when I told...
By Scott Goode, Rosh Eidah of Tour La’Agam Shalom! What an incredible first four days it has been on our trip! We have biked 240 miles through eastern Wisconsin and door county. Up to this point we have lucked out with the weather – sunny skies and a...
By Scott Goode, Rosh Eidah of Tour La’Agam Shalom! My name is Scott Goode and I am the Rosh Eidah (unit head) this year of Tour La’agam. We are very excited to get on the road for this tiyul (trip). After months of planning and training we are finally on...
by Naomi Gamoran, Tiferet Rosh Eidah and Songleader The OSRUI songleaders are now in our fourth day of Hava Nashira, the annual songleading and music workshop hosted by OSRUI. We arrived on Tuesday to begin our training and preparation for the summer. Since then we...
Confirmation Speech by Jessica Heinz, Chalutzim 2012 In 2010, .2% of the world’s population was Jewish. .2% of the world read Torah, fasted on Yom Kippur, and celebrated Hanukkah. Less than that celebrated Shabbat every week. We all know the awkward experience of...
by Vanessa Ehrlich, OSRUI Faculty Member and Director of Education at Lakeside Congregation in Highland Park, IL. These are excerpts from her blog, In One Ehrlich. Part of a trip to Tel Aviv should be a visit with Ohad Sha’altiel, artist, teacher, creative...
