E-News
March 22, 2006

 News Flashes for the Week

A Freilach’n Rock’n Purim

“Naahseh V’ Nishmah”… Throughout the JHP community, “we will do and we will hear,” in commemoration, the wonder of Purim. Wholeheartedly, the Jewish city population on and off JHP campuses celebrated Purim with Megillah readings, merriment, costumes, groggers, music, dancing, magic, Hamantashen, Mishloach Manos, Tzadakah, frolicking Kinderlach,….. the “Gantza Megillah”.

 

At Penn
Pre Purim fun at JHP and Lubavitch House interspersed dressing up two JHP Penn students, Todd Kornreich & Jeff Solomon, in outrageous clown costumes with facial make up who then attended classes in full regalia and later promoted JHP and Lubavitch House Purim celebrations to students on Locust walk.
The party goes on Night & Day…Houston Hall, Purim day, was abuzz with wonderment. 2 Sushi chefs, the Baal Shem Tov band, pie eating contest, magician Barry Silver, game booths, face painting, hourly Megillah readings and hundreds of students wondering in and out throughout the day in celebration of the holiday.
Similar festivities proliferated throughout Lubavitch House and JHP campuses, Temple, NYU, Pitt, Delaware and Binghamton and synagogues throughout the Jewish community. 

Young Professionals Network of JHP
In addition to the Jewish Business Network power lunches, the first evening social event of the Young Professionals Network of JHP, open to all to promote membership, a pre-Purim event, enacting Purim customs, attracted 145 people. This event was organized and hosted by Andrew Spivack.

Quote of the Week  

“This will be the first of many to network amongst ourselves for our common good, spread the word about JHP and increase our philanthropic efforts.”  

–Andrew Spivack, Board member, JBN

 

JHP- A Deeper Look 

Since 1993, a group of leading business professionals, across a host of industries and disciplines, has volunteered to act as career/life mentors to college students as part of Jewish Heritage Programs (JHP). Mentors soon began to network with each other to further their own professional interests. It is out of this network that the Jewish Business Network was formed. The mission of JBN and the Young Professionals Network of JHP is to advance the interests of its participants professionally, socially and philanthropically and to provide on-going support for JHP through mentoring and financial support and proliferation of JHP throughout the professional community.