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OSRUI 2017 Update
Thursday, June 22 was an epic day in 6th-8th grade Tiferet (Arts) Camp at OSRUI! As our Rosh Eidah (unit head) says, “Every day at camp feels like a year, but every week feels like a minute.”...
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Reflections on Segel experience at OSRUI 2017: Missing the Magic of OSRUI
There are things that happen at OSRUI that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. Like this past Monday, when we not only read Torah in the tradition of ancient marketplace readings, but the madrichim...
View ArticleA prayer for those affected by Irma
God, please be with the rescue workers and keep them safe as they make heroic efforts in dangerous situations to rescue those in trouble. God, please be with everyone waiting to be rescued, keep them...
View ArticleHigh Holy Day 5778 Welcome Video
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View ArticleThe Brokenness We All Feel Inside
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778 Sermon By Rabbi Scott Gellman There is a Japanese philosophy known as “wabi-sabi,”which embraces the flawed or imperfect. It values marks of wear that arise due to the use of an...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Temple Sholom Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon 5778/2017
Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon by Rabbi Goldberg Shanah Tovah, Temple Sholom, and Happy Birthday! How one hundred and fifty years young we are! Many here today have been loyal members and great...
View ArticleAnd Your Children Shall Know Abundant Peace Re’eh 5777
By Rabbi Shoshanah Conover I so enjoy reading and rereading books and poetry that I love. Sometimes, lines that I almost skipped over in the first reading seem to jump up off the page in a second or...
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To Tell the Darkness, We Beg to Differ YKE 5778/2017
By Rabbi Goldberg G’mar Chatimah Tovah and Shabbat shalom!If you are like me, you love The Art Institute of Chicago, and for many reasons. One reason I love the Art Institute is that it has Grant...
View ArticleOur Room of Requirement, Our Garden of Faith
By Rabbi Conover on 10 Tishrei 5778/ September 30, 2017 Gut Yontiv. As this is the time for making confessions, a few quick questions: Who here has read one of the Harry Potter books? (Show of...
View ArticleMidler Brit Bat
Aaron and Esther welcome their newborn, Sylvia, into their lives and into the Temple Sholom Community with Rabbi Conover and their circle of friends and family. Brit Bat (baby naming) and Brit Milah...
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Are You Smarter Than Jay Rapoport?
Are You Smarter Than Jay Rapoport? Blogging from Orr Shalom high school retreat at OSRUI December 2, 2017 At Temple Sholom’s annual Orr Shalom high school youth group retreat at URJ Camp OSRUI, members...
View ArticleA journey of Jewish learning, history and community
Dear Temple Sholom: I’m writing to invite you to join Melanie and me on a journey of Jewish learning, history and community. This fall marks the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “night of...
View ArticleRabbi Goldberg’s Purim 2018 letter
Shalom! Soon it will be the Jewish festival of Purim (Wednesday night, Feb 28). The Talmud poses the question: Why don’t we sing Hallel (biblical praises of God) on Purim? Various answers are proposed:...
View ArticleGun Violence Prevention Speech by Jeremy Liskar
This is Chicago. This is Chicago. That is the message I kept pushing as we tried to come up with the details for Chicago’s version of the March for Our Lives. There will be the national march in D.C....
View ArticleGun Violence Prevention Speech by Eli Perlin
The first time that I remember hearing about a school shooting was the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. I was in the 4th grade at the time. A friend and I had just finished playing tennis. We were...
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Why Did Our Teens Go To Philly?
By Jay Rapoport, MARE Director of Lifelong Learning This weekend, Rabbi Gellman, Caleb Bromberg and I took 15 of our Orr Shalom teens to Philadelphia. It was our biggest teen trip in the four years I...
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OSRUI 2018 blog: A New Era for OSRUI
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View ArticleRosh Hashanah 2018 Message from Rabbi Goldberg
The Dynamics of Dispute Shana Tova! Like many of you I have read some good books this past year. One was by Ron Chernow, who wrote, a few years ago, a biography of Alexander Hamilton. The new one is...
View ArticleYom Kippur 2018 Message from Rabbi Goldberg
Shanah Tovah! You know, we say happy New Year, but the actual Hebrew is have a good new year. Goodness and happiness are not the same. We can hope for happiness, but goodness is another matter. We can...
View ArticleRabbi Conover’s Yom Kippur Sermon 5779
In a World Where Everything Can Be Faked, What’s Real? RELATIONSHIPS By Rabbi Shoshanah Conover 10 Tishrei 5779/ September 19, 2018 Gut Yontiv. Like some of you, I love to read about trailblazers and...
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