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"Todas las acciones del hombre, son solo sueños, y al final a los sueños volverán" T. Herzl
No hay nada más reconfortante que tener un sueño y saber que en algún lugar del mundo existe...
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ROI Grantee Chloe Safier (ROI 2007) is organizing a series of writing workshops for young Jewish writers (including bloggers, freelance writers, journalists, novelists, etc) in the Boston area. With Chloe already a regular contributor to PresenTense Magaz...
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I’m currently on my way back to Israel having just concluded the first ROI regional gathering for Latin Americans in Cancun, Mexico. I can definitely say that I picked up at least 20 new Spanish words (like alfajores) – not really enough to understan...
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ROI LatAm Gathering group photo
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Last night, the first ROI Regional Gathering in Latin America began in Cancun, Mexico, featuring fifty participants from sixteen countries. Like the ROI Summit that takes...
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Towards end of day 2
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Those of you who follow her on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media tool already know that for months, our Leah Jones (ROI 2007-2008) has been training for the Susan Komen Breast Cancer ...
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Today, congregations all over the world celebrated the completion of one cycle of the Torah and the beginning of the new cycle of reading the text for the new year...
On that theme, ROI is thrilled to share with you a project -- created by an ROIer, an...
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Anyone who was at the ROI Summit this year will remember that we had a more than average number of staff members with the same initials: JK.
Two of the JKs - content manager Jen Keys and track moderator Jen Kraus -reunited recently in Washington, DC an...
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Thanks to Michelle Weinberg for sending us this blog post about ROIers in action:
More Than Timing
As the new year begins, we take time to reflect on the passing year and consider ways to create positive change for the future. We remember good t...
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Evonne Marzouk is the founder and executive director of Canfei Nesharim, an organization that provides traditional Jewish resources about the importance of protecting the environment.. This is from a press release that she sent around in honor of Sukkot,...
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JTA, the wire news service of the international Jewish community, recently ventured into TV to explore how some of today's innovators have been affected by the downturn in the US economy. In this clip, Jacob Berkman, a JTA reporter who covers philanthropy...
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Episode Three of the ROI Experience available now on YouTube:
Next up...a blooper reel? Stay tuned to see what the Video Team has in store for us this new year...shanah tovah!...
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Two years ago, during an open-space exercise, Matthue Roth wondered if he should get "a real job." But this novelist (and fairly new father) seems to be doing just fine in his job, following up the publication of Candy in Action with his latest, Losers.
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Only our own Jewish Robot could get the four candidates on the phone at the same time to atone for political sniping in tribute to the season (and in promotion of Taglit-Birthright Israel, no less)...
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One of our favorite musical ROIers hits the press again, this time in Boston's Jewish Advocate:
On this particular day, the young singer started her morning with what she described to be "a good cup of coffee." However, it didn't come from a pretenti...
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ROI is pleased to share some notes and comments from Polina Galitskaya (Kazan, Russia) about her project, "Torah and Modern Science, do they have something in common?" which she is achieving with Anya Eychis (NY, USA). The project targets about 120 partic...
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At last Monday's JESNA/Lippman-Kanfer/UJC consultation on Jewish social entrepreneurship, I attended a session on Jewish leadership moderated by Or Mars, Director, Graduate Fellowship Program at the Wexner Foundation--Or asked us all to introduce ourselve...
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CK from Jewlicious (a two-time ROI staff member) and Aharon Horwitz (a two-time ROI participant and one-time text study leader) are two of the presenters at the affordable and practical Tachlis 2.0 conference being held next Wednesday in Jerusalem. Check ...
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Everyone's favorite combiner of Bible study and yoga practice, Marcus Freed, provides this yoga-inspired teaching in memory of 9/11.
There’s a curious passage in the story of creation. We know the bit where it says “Let there be light” (Genesis.1...
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For those of you who missed the inspiring words from Sandy Cardin and Lisa Eisen at this summer's PresenTense Institute, here's an hour and a half of discussion on the current state of philanthropy and how it relates to Jewish creativity and innovation.
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Yesterday, I attended a program, jointly sponsored by JESNA's Lippman-Kanfer Institute and the UJC, and held at the Kraft Center at Columbia, where we tried to determine what Jewish social entrepreneurship is and how we can take it to the next level. I kn...
