E-News
January 4,2006
News Flashes for the Week
Jews of the Roundtable
JHP Associate Director of Development in NYC, Eilleen Eisenberg, planned a great unusual event along with Roy Hakimian, Russell Bailyn, JHP fellows and a bunch of NYU students. All took part in a mentoring round table discussion. Prestigious mentors included, Andrew Waranch, VP, U.S. Power Trading at Deutsche Bank Global Currencies & Commodities and Joram Cuckierman, VP of CFSB Energy Trading & Marketing, who had a special story to share; he grew up in Berlin, Germany. Topics included career, Judaism and the power of networking. Other mentors present were Elliot Scheir from Lattanzio Chen Partners, LP and Ari Ackerman, Founder and CEO of Bunk1.
“It was really inspiring to see how committed these students are to a Jewish identity program on campus. I would have loved to have had a program like this when I was in college.” - Andrew Waranch
"I was impressed on so many levels by the JHP Students at NYU. My focus was passion, as I truly feel that there is no more important way to live one’s life professionally, personally and ‘Jewishly’. I would be proud to continue to support the valuable and necessary work of JHP." – Ari Ackerman
Penn Students’ Chanukah in Israel
JHP Penn intern Jennie Rubinstein and her friends organized a Mayonot Birthright trip to Israel for 40 students who left Philly with Rabbi Levi Haskelevich last Thursday in the midst of celebrating the last days of Chanukah.
Keep the Flame Burning
A class being held in NYC Wednesday, January 4th, will be attended by Alumni from Jewish Heritage Programs and Lubavitch House to “Keep the Flame Burning after Chanukah.”
Quote of the Week
"To me, JHP has been about connecting with other Jews and learning more about Judaism. Through the programs, I have become more proud of being a Jew and more aware of the Jewish community around me at Penn and other schools as well as in New York and Philadelphia."
-Amit Freidlander ‘06
JHP-A Deeper Look
From a demographic point of view, those who wish to be part of the Jewish way of life should be aware that the Jewish culture cannot survive in the long term without the biological foundations of family and children. A related challenge is how to pierce the surface and reach inside those who have not bothered or wanted to belong, to revive in them the spark of their glorious heritage and a sense of pride and mission. JHP’s thrust rests on peer to peer transmitted values and education and very much instills in these students these most needed values.
