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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
