Lehrhaus is open to all adults interested in
lifelong Jewish learning and living.
Learn with rabbis and teachers of extraordinary talent.
 
June 25-28
Jewish Mindfulness - How to be Present in the Moment
RABBI ANDREA COSNOWSKY
Cong. Etz Chaim, Lombard
By popular demand, Rabbi Cosnowsky is teaching two sessions.
This topic will be repeated the weekend of July 16-19.

July 2-5
My Own (and perhaps soon your)
Favorite Scriptural and Rabbinic Passages
RABBI HERMAN SCHAALMAN
Well-Known Scholar and Rabbi Emeritus, Emanuel Cong., Chicago

July 9-12
Are the Streams of Judaism (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform)
Melding into One or Two?
RABBI DAVID ELLENSON
President, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
and
Development of Judaism in the African American Community
RABBI CAPERS C. FUNNYE, JR.
Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ehiopian Hebrew Cong., Chicago

July 16-19
Jewish Mindfulness - How to be Present in the Moment
RABBI ANDREA COSNOWSKY
Cong. Etz Chaim, Lombard
This session is filled.
By popular demand, Rabbi Cosnowsky is teaching two sessions.
This topic is a repeat of the June 25-28 weekend.

Mini-Courses at OSRUI
In addition to studying with our exceptional faculty, Lehrhaus participants have the opportunity to enjoy many of the activities provided to our campers, including horseback riding, swimming and boating, sports, biking, or climbing the Alpine Tower. Trips to nearby places of interest, such as the newly expanded Milwaukee Art Museum and the Octagon House in Watertown will add to your experience. Participants also experience Shabbat at Camp: Dinner with the entire Camp community, Shabbat morning services with high school youth, and a buffet lunch with the rest of Camp. Please note: Parents and grandparents of first-time OSRUI campers are kindly asked not to attend while their child/grandchild is a camper.

Tuition includes continental breakfast, buffet lunch, Shabbat dinner, lodging for three nights, and all in-camp programming. Dinner Thursday and Saturday is on your own – enjoy one of the many fine restaurants in and around Oconomowoc. Accommodations are provided in The Bayit – our magnificent, renovated turn-of-the-(20^th) century mansion. Check-in is at 3:00 pm, and your first study session begins at 4:30. Check-out is at 11:00 am.

Our Distinguished Faculty includes … 
 
Rabbi Andrea Cosnowsky currently serves as the Associate Rabbi at Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard. She served Congregation Beth Adam in Loveland, Ohio, and held several student pulpits from Texas to Ohio. Before feeling called to the rabbinate, Rabbi Cosnowsky enjoyed an exciting career as a professional singer-songwriter. She still writes music, and this past year she released her first Jewish music CD - "Stuck in Sunday School."

Rabbi David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is a distinguished rabbi, scholar, and leader of the Reform Movement.  He is internationally recognized for his publications and research in the areas of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history.  He has authored several books, including After Emancipation:  Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity.

Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, Jr. is rabbi and spiritual leader of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, located in Chciago, at 6601 S Kedzie Ave. Rabbi Funnye earned a Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from the Israelite Board of Rabbis, Queens, New York. He is involved in a number of boards in the Jewish community including the Chicago Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.

Rabbi Herman Schaalman is Rabbi Emeritus of Emanuel Congregation in Chicago, where he has served for almost five decades. An internationally known leader of Reform Judaism, Rabbi Schaalman is a well known scholar and gifted teacher, as well as a respected member of the interdenominational religious leadership in Chicago. His recently published book Hineni: Here I Am, is a powerful and articulate book setting forth the theological and personal wisdom accumulated by one of America's foremost Reform rabbis.

Schedule
Lehrhaus programs are three nights, Thursday to Sunday.

Discussions on the Torah Portion of the Week will be led by