Here’s to Our Lives

Here’s to Our Lives

Here’s to Our Lives Poem by Dani from Chalutzim, read at Mesibah We live our summer in fragments, Camera snaps and flashes of lightning too quick to grab on to but undeniably true. We are fragments of our summer.  Of our camp.  Of the brink of our lives. We are...
What do you DO?

What do you DO?

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...
Kallah Bet in Full Swing!

Kallah Bet in Full Swing!

By Libby Fisher and Max Antman, Rashei Eidah of Kallah We can’t believe it has only been a week since the Kallah Bet chanichim (campers) arrived at OSRUI! We have already participated in so many fun activities! On Thursday, Noam Katz was here to and performed an...
Tiferet Presents: A Frozen Mesibah!

Tiferet Presents: A Frozen Mesibah!

By Becca Levy, Rosh Eidah of Tiferet After three weeks of rehearsing, Tiferet presented our Star Spangled Mesibah to all of camp last night! Mesibah is a 4th of July (well 5th this year!) Talent Show for the whole camp presented by Tiferet. Each year has a top-secret...
Judaism’s Dance

Judaism’s Dance

By Rabbi David Locketz, Associate Rabbi at Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka, MN, and Avodah Segel There is no such thing as a typical day at camp, because in some way, every day is unique.  The day before Shabbat…the Day after Shabbat…Shabbat…High Sock Day…Yom...
Dikduk HaMagevet

Dikduk HaMagevet

By Micah Brandhandler, Rosh Eidah of Chalutzim This week in Chalutzim has been one of the best yet.  We started off with our surprise Tiyul L’Park  where we went to Nagawaukee Park and played outside the whole morning until heading off to see “How to Train Your Dragon...