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You might not even know it, but right now, about 60 recipients of the Charlie Award are gathering in Jerusalem to celebrate the five-year history of the award and remember the man who inspired it all, Charles "Charlie" Schusterman.
The award annually r...
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Remember Will and Michelle's "Matzah Song"?
If your native language is Hebrew, maybe you didn't get everything the first time. But now, an inventive independent translator took it upon himself to translate the famous "20 Things To Do With Matzah" viral...
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Blog posts and articles by ROI staff and participants, here and elsewhere...in chronological order, with more posts to come:
General Reflections by ROIers
"What the Next Generation Wants," by Marcus Freed in the London Jewish Chronicle
ROI120, in Inv...
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Jen Kraus served as our Tikkun Olam/Service track facilitator at this summer's summit. Shortly after she arrived home in Washington, DC, her longtime boyfriend popped the question, and the lucky pair a...
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When ROIers come to town, the press goes mad for the imported stories of how young Jews are connecting to Jewish identity and values. We're like celebrities. Or כאילו. משהו כזה.
In three separate articles in the Jerusalem Post, Michelle Cit...
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As founder of the Alma Home for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv, Ruth Calderon has encountered a unique challenge: to find a way to interest secular Israelis in classical Jewish texts.
Calderon explained her motivation in founding Alma. She wanted to be bot...
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The sign of ROIers at work--in the heat of the day. They were of all skin tones and worked, and thirsted, and reapplied sunblock under their plastic work aprons. All on behalf of the residents ...
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Facebook is a tremendous tool for people to organize around any issue--practical, social or just for fun. Of course, pre-ROI, the ROI120 2008 group went up, followed shortly by the Arts & Culture track group and the Environmental Activism track group, fea...
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For anyone who missed the video team's intro at the Opening Night of the summit, let's go to the videotape:
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Check out videos from ROI, including our new "Meet the Video Team" video. Other conference videos are being edited and will be posted when ready, but stay tuned.
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The other day, I spun a plate on a stick. Believe me, it’s not as easy as it looks.
It all started with a skill session called “Juggling for Jewish Leaders,” led by fellow ROIer Lisa Appel, an acrobat and juggler who combines circus skills with ...
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If you were at ROI and are anything like me, you're feeling a combination of exhaustion, depression and encouragement that's really hard to describe. On the one hand, we had an intense five days of conversation and passion--and yes, even a little partying...
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Matt Bar is the creator of the BibleRaps project, which may explain why his posts are rendered in a humor and style all their own. If you don't understand all of his references--and you may not...I'm not sure I do, and I've known him for a while--feel fre...
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Some of the goings on at the recent ROI Summit in Jerusalem were covered in Haaretz:
A communications overload brought down the internet connection on Tuesday at Jerusalem's Hebrew Union College. The surge came from room 104, where the summit's 20 comp...
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Our Environmental Track presentations continued with presentations from several new Jewish innovators. Our first presenter was Yishai Fuchs, who coordinates a program called Bike for Jerusalem “Ofanayim B’shvil Yerushalayim”. His work is supportin...
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It seems as though all conferences and programs revolve around numbers. The numbers attending, the number of programs (no too many, not too few, but a good Goldilocks number), the number of minutes allotted for each program/activity, breaks in between, mo...
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Today on the Environment Track, several of our participants presented on the projects that they are working on. We have quite a diverse and interesting group of leaders in our track!
Eli Winkelman and Emily Freed were involved in Hazon (www.hazon.org)...
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Esther here, with an opinion piece about Open Space. Open Space is always really interesting, as it gives the controls over topics of discussion to the participants, and reveals what people are really thinking about. Some of the topics included Aliyah, Ho...
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Roi Summit thus far: They saved the best for first when the big boss, Shai Agassi, told his remarkable story of how, in the last year, he found his ‘calling’ - which happens to be saving the world from both World War III and natural apocalypse while ...
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Two Daniels. One Julie. One article. The Canadian Jewish News interviewed Daniel Rattner (2007/2008) and Julie Schneiderman (2006) as to their opinions about participating in the Summit and its potential to impact their work.
[...] Rattner, a Halifax ...
