by Shore (aka Daniel Shore), OSRUI Alum and OSRUI Birthright trip staff The flight is so much f…wait, we’re off the plane already. Oh, well there’s one quick story I should recount. With 30 minutes left until landing in Israel, the pilot or someone announced,...
by Shore (aka Daniel Shore), OSRUI Alum and OSRUI Birthright Trip Staff How often do you arrive at the airport and within minutes have seen FOUR people you know? Okay, so maybe I set myself up for success when I agreed to staff a Birthright trip with a bunch of OSRUI...
Congratulations to OSRUI Alum Jason Brown on winning the U.S. men’s Figure Skating title this past Sunday in Greensboro, N.C. Jason became the youngest man to win a national championship since 2004. He totaled 274.98 points -a record for the event...
by Bradley Egel, NFTY and OSRUI Alum People frequently talk about generational leadership. The Hebrew phrase, l’dor vador, literally means “from generation to generation,” and is most often applied to the handing down of leadership from one generation to the next. If...
by Michael M. Lorge, Gesher Faculty We do not aspire to be Prophets, but we seek to be inspired by the Prophets. This was our focus for the second 2 weeks of Gesher 2014 at OSRUI. We developed an understanding that the Prophets were real people and that they were...
