Last week, students from all across the University of Pennsylvania’s campus celebrated Jewish tradition by participating in Jewish Heritage Program’s bi-annual Shabbat for 2,000 event. Students broke organizational records by hosting over 100 individual Shabbat dinners on Penn’s campus alone. Raquel Levitt, a sophomore double-majoring in Communication and Consumer Psychology is this semester’s Vice President […]
Shabbat for 2000
65 Shabbat Dinners in One Night at Penn!
The results are in: this semester we provided 1,325 Penn students with food for over 65 Shabbat meals on campus with JHP@Penn’s famous bi-annual Shabbat for 2,000.
JHP@Penn Interns Reflect on Shabbat for 2000
“I had a meal in my house and me and a few of our roommates each invited 3 to 4 friends,” explains Rachel Finkel, Penn Class of 2014. “It was nice because we had a group that wasn’t all friends already. And they weren’t all people who’d regularly have Shabbat dinners.” Lead Intern Sam Werther, Penn Class […]
