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The following was posted as a comment to the original post about the Marker naming Nir Kouris to their list of top innovators. We asked Nir to let us know how the summer was, and he responded!
How was the summer? AMAZING!
I saw kids and teenagers ...
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2008 ROIer Nir Kouris was just named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in Israel's The Marker Magazine, for his work with eCamp Israel. (Link to come.)
Kol hakavod, Nir--please let us know how the summer was!...
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When you first meet her, you might not know it, but ROIer Hannah Janal walks with Israeli cultural royalty.
From working with Ivri Lider to promote his new album in English, due in the coming year, Janal has progressed--through gumption, persistence a...
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ROI Summit Episode 1...better than Star Wars: Episode 1, because it's a hundred percent Jar-Jar free! ...
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ROIer Caylee Talpert recently returned from a study trip to Rwanda which she coordinated with support from the ROI Grants. Here's a letter from her about the experience:
Rwandan Study Tour
by Caylee Talpert (South Africa-ROI 2007)
A group of stude...
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During the 2008 Summit, ROI Community member Assaf Luxembourg (Israel) remembered a piece he'd written over a year ago about the future visions -- and occasional lack thereof -- for the State of Israel and the Jewish people world wide. "It was an issue I ...
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She's the Video Goddess of ROI, the Grand Directrix of the Four Corners Project, a former Charlie, three-time veteran of ROI, and a hell of a great friend. And that's why we can't believe that we left Lindsay Litowitz off our list of birthdays for this we...
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If you're aware of the new trends in Jewish learning, you might have heard of Limmud, an annual festival of Jewish learning that lasts for several days and draws people from all backgrounds. Limmud events have been held in Europe, UK, the US (LA and NY)
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This was taken at the CLI-Israel office in Jerusalem yesterday. So as you can see, the ROI Team sees you all the time, and you are present in the work that happens there. Stay in touch....
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Lately there's been a number of projects that are designed to support Jewish projects that are innovative and creative. Bikkurim concentrates on New York-based small non-profit initiatives in the startup stage. The PresenTense Institute for Creative Zioni...
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On a hot steamy night in Tel Aviv, no breeze was present from the darkened city or from the ocean shores that everyone keeps saying are there in this beach city. But a few smart Kol Dorians sought out the air conditioned comfort of Silon, a bar on Ibn Gvi...
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Sure, Episode One was loads of fun, but that's yesterday's news.
Re-experience it all, from inspiring words from Sandy Cardin to Bibliyoga and acrobatics; from Eli Valley giving away his phone number at Speed Networking to me sitting in a corner with ...
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Forget Beijing. The real gold medalist is in Hungary.
Bruno Bitter (ROI 2006) recently shared with us the happy news that after earning a Silver Medal last year, Judapest.org has won the coveted "HVG Goldenblog" Golden Award this year, making it number...
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Every year the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education meets on a North American college campus during the last days of summer--members of the conference network, schmooze, attend classes and workshops, discussing the latest and greatest initiat...
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This announcement courtesy of Emily Freed (2007, 2008):
Come be a part of the New Jewish Food Movement!
You are invited to the 2008 Hazon Food Conference which will take place December 25 - 28, 2008 at the Asilomar Conference and Retreat Center, on ...
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Rapper (and 2006 ROIer) Shi360 (also known as Shai Haddad) has had a busy summer--he celebrated a birthday (see above photo), visited his extended family in Morocco with other ROIers through the Four Corners Project, and spent some time in Italy. The foll...
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Young Jewish innovators were certainly present in force at this year's ROI Summit, but 13 of them provided a distinctly Spanish accent to the proceedings. In this article, the three Argentineans--Valeria Grimberg, Abigail Gaisner, and Gabriel Buznick--are...
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As you may know, the NASDAQ stock market often asks celebrities and people of particular achievement to ring its opening or closing bells. On Thursday, Project Sunshine CEO (and 2006 ROIer) Joseph Weilgus rang that bell, accompanied by several other noted...
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...and Michelle Citrin (ROI 2006, 2008) attended, having the chance to experience the crowd's reaction to the song for which she did the vocals...here's her reaction.
And to hear the song in better audio quality, see below.
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At long last, ROI Summit 2008: Episode 1!! (And trust us, it's much better than Star Wars Episode 1.)
Big ups to Lindsay, Ben and Zach for an amazing job (with more exciting webisodes to come).
Enjoy, and if you love it...let us know!
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