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  • ROIers In The Media This Week...

    In the huge talent pool that is the ROI Summit, members of the community appear in dozens of press mentions each week. Here are a few that you might find interesting... Can you profit from your imagination? We all know that Sarah Lefton (ROI 2006/7) ha...
  • Y-Love Sightings Continue; Spawn Rumors of Cloning

    How is it possible for one rapper to be everywhere? After seeing Y-Love at PLP in Santa Monica, then in New York at the Idan Raichel concert, then at PresenTense-sponsored Balagan Boogaloo at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the East Village, and t...
  • Benefit Concert for Mavoi Satum

    Mavoi Satum presents A Unique Show Etti Ankri and David D'Or join together with The Black Hebrews Sunday 30th December 2007 The Jerusalem Theatre, Henry Crown Hall Doors open 20:15 Show begins 20:45 Advance Tkts: 077-2164436 Fiona - 052-...
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  • ROIers Everywhere...

    ROIers don't sit still much. You guys are running all over the place, conferencing and producing llots of written clips and making progress on your various projects. Wondering where you can get hand-made gifts for Hanukkah and jonesing for an interview...
  • It Must Be Conference Season

    ROIers hit conference season with a vengeance; from PLP to Kol Dor to the General Assembly, we were there, and we were quotable. This article in the JPost featured Ahava Zarembski, Aharon Horwitz and Inbal Freund for their respective projects. At the ...
  • The Next Chapter in Helping Russian Jews

    When people talk about Soviet Jewry, if they're old enough to remember anything about that struggle, they remember the student-led protests to free refuseniks like Anatoly (now Natan) Sharansky; those activists led rallies that shaped an entire movement a...
  • ROI Israel Reunion Recap

    OK, so we're all Jews, right? But we are an international collection of Jews. Despite our commonalities, regional differences are constantly being considered. There are the obvious language issues, Latin American delegates complain about the lack of Salsa...
  • One in a Minyan: World Jewish Digest Picks "Ten to Watch"

    World Jewish Digest named a new minyan--ten people to watch in the coming year. And one of them is compulsive project-founder Ariel Beery. In addition to his work as Editor and Publisher of PresenTense Magazine, Ariel is a contributor to BlogsofZion, and ...
  • ROInsider: Rachel Ingram (UK)

    Rachel Ingram arrived at the ROI Summit already a celebrity of sorts, having appeared in a pre-Summit article about her work in the UK on SomethingJewish.com. After the summit had concluded, she returned straight home for a family party, and resumed her w...
  • missFlag's New Video: "Warm Touch"

    missFlag just keeps producing...first, they took L.A. in September. And now, they've got a video. I'll admit it, I have two issues with missFlag's new video: 1. It makes me a little dizzy when they spin the camera like that. 2. Not enough footage of ...
  • Greening Your Menorah (Or Hannukiyyah)

    When I was at the CAJE conference this summer, I found a flyer from a project called the Green Menorah Covenant; it played on the seven branches of the menorah (not the Hanukkah one, the regular, synagogue one) and identified seven ideas to help you make ...
  • Join Alumni for "The Eight"

    December 8th, as part of a global Hanukah celebration (www.GoEight.com), taglit-birthright israel is throwing a huge party in Tel Aviv! Admission is free but limited to a strict guest list policy. The party is meant for alumni of Taglit-birthright israel...
  • Jonesin' For Tech: Chicago Tribune Features ROIer

    Those of us who attended Leah Jones's session on Website Optimization this summer at ROI already know what a web guru she is. But in case you needed convincing, check out "You Talk, They Hear," from the Chicago Tribune, the major paper of note in that cit...
  • El Salvador's Jewish Community's Website, and How You Can Help

    Aaron Sztarkman, ROI's faithful representative from El Salvador, writes that the website of the Jewish Community of El Salvador is now online and freshly updated. It's mostly in Spanish, Sztarkman notes, but the Tikun Olam section has an English part. ...
  • ROI at PLP: Our Featured Players

    If you've watched the video we posted last week, you likely know that the Professional Leaders Project (PLP) was a gathering of Jewish leaders in their 20s and 30s in late October in Santa Monica. And the people were really great--high-caliber, passionate...
  • Jewish Music Stars Align at the Idan Raichel Concert

    As if attending an Idan Raichel Project show wasn't exciting enough -- and it is, believe me -- last night's show at the Fillmore East in NYC featured a spontaneous performance by Matisyahu, who'd been hanging in the VIP section, and ROIer Y-Love, who emb...
  • ROI Alumni: The taglit-birthright Impact

    Without question, taglit-birthright israel has had an immeasurable impact on so many of today's Jewish leaders, including many who have attended ROI these past two summers. What? Don't believe me? Come on! You know I'm right. And more importantly, so d...
  • ROInsider: Daphne Lasky (USA and Israel)

    Daphne Lasky had just graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont when she got on a plane to Israel. Arriving before ROI, she stayed in Jerusalem for three months, doing research on a unique subject: looking at a two-state solution from an urban planning...
  • Tikkun Olam--Spreading the Message of Helping Others

    What is Tikkun Olam? Gabriel Catan, from Uruguay, shares his thoughts: What is Tikkun Olam? What's the importance of helping our fellow man? Should we first help and reach out to our local Jewish communities or do we focus on other non-Jewish needs as ...

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