E-News
February 22 , 2006
News Flashes for the Week
JHP Succeeds in Connecting 1800 to Their Glorious Heritage:
1000 LBS of Chicken, 450 lbs of Kugel, 200 Loaves of Challah throughout Penn….
For the 12th consecutive time, last Friday night, February 17th, JHPhosted Shabbos for 2000. A remarkable 1800 dinners were served simultaneously at 71 locations. Danielle Gershowitz, Penn JHP intern added to the event by cooking her own matzoh ball soup and bought a variety of Kosher wines to be sampled by her guests after dinner for a Kosher wine tasting at her house. “How to Shabbat” books on the laws and customs of Shabbat were distributed and blessings were said. Per Lindsay Teich, JHP Fellow, “It was perfect!”
1 on 1 Schmoozing at Temple
Last Friday afternoon, February 17th, 12:00pm, a dozen mentors and a dozen JHP Temple students took part in a mentoring event in an intimate setting at the offices of Ballard Spahr in Center City, Philadelphia. For the first hour there was 1 on 1 schmoozing which was followed by a round table discussion. One of the topics discussed was “How is it to be Jewish in the workplace.”
“It is very fortunate to have mentoring events like this because each one of you has a great opportunity to network.”
- Steve Dickstein, JHP mentor
“It is great to have this opportunity to network, learn and make future connections in the business world.”
– Ben Profeta, JHP intern in training, Temple
Quote of the Week
“Jennie Rubinstein and I had a Shabbat dinner as part of JHP Shabbat for 2000 together for all of our housemates and some people brought friends and out of town guests. We had 17 people there. The dinner was great and we had a lot of fun. Everyone had different plans afterwards, so it was really nice to spend Shabbat dinner together beforehand. We had our friends do some of the blessings and everyone felt very much a part of the event. It was a lot of fun.”
– Sharon Wolf, JHP intern, Penn ‘06
JHP- A Deeper Look
In addition to JHP directly providing students with the opportunity to make a connection to their glorious heritage through social interaction, an indirect result the students achieve is in the rewarding experience of helping others. Mitzvah week, as the term applies does just that. During this week, JHP students are involved in community service activities every day for an entire week. Besides events including making and distributing PB & J sandwiches for the homeless, preparing gifts for children in local hospitals, designing greeting cards for Israeli soldiers, soup kitchens and Tzadakah collections, JHP students are committed to coming up with new ideas to serve the Jewish community through the performance of Mitzvahs.
