Service/Tikkun Olam

Elissa Krycer / 01/27/12

In my experience, ROI consistently achieves its goal to connect community innovators across the World.

Like Moishe House, it has a model that I hope other cultural, social and religious communities around the world learn from, empowering and enabling those who already have motivation.

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Sarah Schonberg / 11/30/11

IsraCorps - An ROIer Collaboration Comes to Life

By Sarah Schonberg, ROI Micro Grant Recipient

It feels like just yesterday that I stood on the ROI Summit 2011 stage with my new Idea Competition team members and my jaw on the floor. Yossi Vardi had just told us that our idea for IsraCorps was “grand” and Lynn Schusterman herself told us that a Jewish Peace Corps was her “life’s dream.” Perhaps the most profound part of that moment was the standing ovation given to us by the ROI Community. It was one of those rare moments in life when you know something truly special is happening. Something big was taking shape. As we stepped off the stage, we were patted on the back, high-fived and fist-bumped. We were overwhelmed with offers to get involved and support this idea that resonated so deeply with everyone in the room.

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David Krantz / 09/20/11

Lessons from Ghana

By David Krantz (recipient of an ROI Micro Grant)

SEFWI WIAWSO, Ghana — When I told my friends and colleagues that I was coming here to learn lessons for Israel, many were puzzled. Surely, they thought, Israel should be teaching Ghana, not the other way around. But this remote corner of southwestern Ghana, near the country’s border with Ivory Coast, provided me with many lessons that will affect the policies promoted by the organization that I run, the Green Zionist Alliance. Thanks to fiscal support from ROI and NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, I was able to travel here to study international food policy and learn ways that Israel could become more environmentally sustainable by emulating this small country in sub-Saharan Africa.

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ROI Community / 08/17/11

El Al's Atmosphere Magazine - ROI Feature Article

El Al's August 2011 Atmosphere in-flight magazine carries a four page feature on ROI Community, with a spotlight on ROIers Brian Elliot, Dina Buchbinder Auron, Edoe Cohen, Michal Ansky and Rachel Olstein Kaplan.

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ROI Community / 08/02/11

5 Questions with … Yael Assor

by Abigail Pickus

This is the first in a three-part series.

Yael Assor, 26, is a social activist living in Jerusalem. Originally from Be’er Sheva, she moved to Jerusalem to attend Hebrew University, which was where she learned about Bema’aglei Tzedek (“Circles of Justice”), an organization that raises awareness and engages the public to take action to make lasting changes in the area of social justice. Today, Yael is the coordinator of the Tav Chevrati (“Social Seal”), a certificate granted by Bema’ageli Tzedek to restaurants in Israel that treat their workers ethically and are handicap accessible. She is also pursuing a Master’s degree from Hebrew University in sociology and anthropology.

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Yvonne Feiger / 08/01/11

Interfaith Conference - More Than an Experience

Muslim Jewish Conference 2011

The annual MJC 2011 took place in Kiev, Ukraine from 3rd to 8th of July where we spent almost a full week discussing and learning about each other’s lives, everyday practices and religious traditions.

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Premshay Hermon / 07/31/11

A "Brave" Lesson Through the Arts

Premshay Hermon, recipient of an ROI Micro Grant, describes his experiences with "Brave."

"Brave" Festival is an annual event taking place in the beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland. Dating back over 1,000 years old, it is no surprise that Wroclaw has yielded a festival of ancient traditions. Marching with the slogan "Against Cultural Exile", the "Brave" festival is all about mutual respect. For one week A variety of carefully chosen ceremonies and traditional performances "lend" themselves to one of Europe's most exciting cities, and receive center-stage, literally: a traditional Healing ritual, that hosts disease-demons humorously singing and dancing, takes place in the backyard of the theater institute (`Tovil`); a Hindu ensemble from Kerala performs 'Kathakali' dances from the ancient Ramayana for two hours (this is the short version, an average show can last 4-6 hours); men and women from the Bwa tribe in Burkina Faso perform the 'Masks of the Moon' ceremony, with white & black full-body masks and magnetizing voices of genuine singing and drumming; and many more.

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ROI Community / 07/13/11

Innovation at Any Age

July 14, 2011 by eJP

by Justin Korda and Esther D. Kustanowitz

In the field of innovation, the term “innovative” is almost always paired with the word “young.”

Admittedly, at first glance, these two terms seem a natural fit. As Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, points out, the development of high-caliber social entrepreneurs is largely linked to taking initiative at an earlier age. He bases his assertion on both experience and research: in a study of more than 2,500 Ashoka fellows, the organization saw that a significant number of these social entrepreneurs had first experienced the power of being change-makers in their younger years.

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Karin Fleisch / 07/11/11

Uri L'Tzedek Uses Micro Grant to Inspire Pursuit of Justice

By Karin Fleisch

When Jeff Sachs speaks, people listen. Even if they don't agree with his policy prescriptions, his voice is authoritative, compassionate and demands our attention. On June 1, he addressed the crowd at Uri L'Tzedek's first annual Spring fundraiser, "And Justice For All," held at Midtown Loft, in Manhattan.

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Erica Lyons / 07/05/11

Aging Out of Generational Divides

by Erica Lyons

Recent articles in the Jewish media have cited critical differences between Jews under 40 and ”older Jews” and have made reference to “stark generation gaps”, “deep generational divides” and certain ideas “not resonating with Jews under 40”. Will I think so radically differently in 11 months? Will I be ‘unfriended’ by my social media cohorts? Will I no longer be their cohorts, statistically speaking?

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Service/Tikkun Olam

El Al's August 2011 Atmosphere in-flight magazine carries a four page feature on ROI Community, with a spotlight on ROIers Brian Elliot, Dina Buchbinder Auron, Edoe Cohen, Michal Ansky and Rachel Olstein Kaplan.

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