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As part of the worldwide healing after the terror in Mumbai, Chabad of San Diego convened the community at large to share thoughts and prayers for the victims of the attacks and to remember Rabbi Gavriel & Rivkah Holtzberg, Chabad Lubavitch emissaries to ...
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ROI rockers Josh Nelson (2008) and Michelle Citrin (2006, 2008) are two of the featured players in this new holiday special devoted to music about Hanukkah. Check here for airdates and times.
And did we mention that the deadline for submissions to ...
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The following is a message from Emily Freed, who's been busy working with Hazon on the second annual Food Conference...
ROI Chevre:
Greetings from sunny California! Here on the California Central Coast (about 90 minutes south of San Francisco al...
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Sibling rivalry, baby wars and homecomings, this week on G-dcast. Oh yeah, and I'm the narrator. Enjoy!
Parshat Vayetze from g-dcast on Vimeo....
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The following was posted as a note on Facebook by 2008 ROIer Hershey Novack (St. Louis, MO):
At this moment my old classmate Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, who serve as the Chabad envoys in Mumbai, India, along with several others, are hosta...
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As many of our readers know, we've had several ROIers join us from India over the last few years. When we heard about yesterday's terror attacks in Mumbai that left 125 dead, and 327 wounded, we checked in with ROIers to see that they were ok. We heard fr...
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ROIers certainly know how to make an impact. One of the most unexpectedly memorable elements of this year's ROI Summit was the participation of Lisa Appel, or the acrobatic Miss Lisa, as we came to know her. After the summit, Lisa returned to her local Ph...
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Israel is such a small country, you knew it was only a matter of time before we knew an ROIer making a go of it in reality television. And leave it to Facebook to be the PR agent that allowed ROI to know about it...
Itay Mor (2006 - in th...
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How frustrating was it this summer when you wanted to know how far things were from each other in Jerusalem and you couldn't GoogleMap it? Well, the NY Jewish Week reports that Google recently started filling in the map of Israel. Slowly, slowly, as it se...
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If you enjoyed "Jerusalem," the Michelle Citrin song that was part of the ROI video soundtrack, here's a special bonus: a fan-captured video of Michelle performing at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC this weekend...
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As you may have noticed, last week's post featured one from Marcus Freed in London providing you with survival tips for the intense and amazing experience known as LimmudUK, and another post from Aaron Sztarkman in El Salvador about his experience at the ...
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This week's installment features the mellifluous vocal tones of Y-Love.
Parshat Toldot from g-dcast on Vimeo....
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The following is a letter from Marcus Freed (ROI 2008).
Dear ROIers,
Sending you an unofficial welcome to LimmudUK...the Limmud, Limmud Classic, The Real Thing.
As a longtime Limmudnik, I just wanted to share a few tips for navigating through the ...
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The Jewish Young Adult Writers Forum, founded by ROIer Chloe Safier hasn't even started yet, and it's already creating buzz...After attending the open house in Boston over the weekend, one blogger on Jewschool notes delight not just at the prospect of gat...
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That's our Adi Cohen, who photographed the best of ROI for three years running. But one night recently, Adi took the night off to be featured in the photographs, as she married her fiance -- now husband -- David.
מזל טוב וברכה!...
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Thanks to Aaron Sztarkman, who runs various tikkun olam activities in El Salvador, for this report....were you there and have opinions about the conference? Send them in and we'll post them!
Hace dos semanas tuve la oportunidad de asistir al 1er Encuen...
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Now in its fourth week, G-dcast is redefining the way young people view Bible. So far, Matthue Roth, who serves as educational director for the series -- itself the brainchild of ROI Arts & Culture track facilitator Sarah Lefton -- has voiced the portion ...
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OK, you know our very own William Levin and Michelle Citrin have been responsible as a team for creating and producing some of this past year's greatest hits of Jewish viral video. They're about to strike again, with a Hannukkah-based project that you're ...
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A floor cluttered with issues, waiting to be discussed...what did you talk about? Tell us here...
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Caption: Barack Obama asks Eli Winkelman if he can attend ROI 2009. Eli says she'll have to check with Justin, Yoni, and Beto.
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