OSRUI Alum Jason Brown Heads to the Olympics

OSRUI Alum Jason Brown came in second yesterday in the U.S. Men’s Figure Skating Championships, earning him a spot on the team heading to Sochi for the Olympics!!  Jason was a camper from 2003 – 2008, in Kallah, Tzofim, and Moshavah.  Sibs Jordan and Dylan...

18 Years After Yitzhak Rabin

by Deborah Goldberg, Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and an OSRUI Alum. My first memory of being taught of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was during the summer of 2006 as a camper in the Hebrew-immersion program at...

Some (Jewish) Experience Preferred

by Steven Chaitman, Social Media and Digital Communications manager at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and an OSRUI Alum. When I graduated college, I really wasn’t ready for what would come next. I entered the University of...

Avodah – a Holy Job

Rabbi Isaac Serotta, Lakeside Congregation for Reform Judaism, Highland Park, IL, and Avodah Segel It is unusually quiet in OSRUI right now.  After a very busy morning everything is silent.  No, it’s not Shabbat.   It’s the day after.  Moshavah left early this morning...