Monthly Archives: November 2011

Oorah Auction donors can now decide where their donation will go. Choices include : Yeshiva tuition scholarship for one month: $300, Shabbos Party at camp for $5 per child, a Chanukah party in a box for $26, and many more. Check out the Donor Decide section on Oorah.org.

Today, with the launch of Oorah Auction 2012, donors are starting to take advantage of this new opportunity. Were you one of today’s donors? Did you choose where your dollars should go? What did you choose?

As the year draws to a close, it is incumbent upon every employee to take a good look back and see what they’ve accomplished. In the marketing department, this was meant to be taken quite literally. Plainly spoken, it was a mess. Marketing team members realized things were getting pretty out of hand in their quiet little corner of the Big Room when the clutter was becoming insistent on being fed at regular intervals throughout the day.

But yesterday, a new era was heralded in – one without boxes, old auction books, outdated mockups, etc. – and it looks like a bright, happy, and much cleaner future in store for all who work there.

Special thank you to Rabbi Katz of the maintenance department for his assistance in clearing up the mess!

Oorah had sponsored Joellen through her years in Yeshiva giving her the opportunity to learn what it means to be a Jew. Now she is spreading this special meaning to so many others on her college campus.

Below is an email that we received from Joellen:

Recently I’ve started the first Jewish organization of the University of the Sciences/Philadelphia College of Pharmacy campus in quite a few years. We had a Hillel about 5 years ago, but it went inactive. In order to start this group I had to obtain the signatures of 10 interested students. Along with another student, we ended up with 20 signatures! As the designated speaker for the group, I went in front of the student government and convinced them to recognize the group as a campus organization. After a night of deliberation, they accepted our constitution! For our first activity as Jewish Life on campus, we will be having a pre-Chanukah party to teach everyone how to play dreidel and invite everyone to enjoy hot Kosher latkes, which I don’t think has ever happened before. We plan to have a Tu B’Shevat party, groups to walk to shul together, a Purim megillah reading on campus complete with homemade hamentaschen and a grand mock Seder lead by one of the Jewish teachers in advising. Lots of students are excited about the prospect of active Jewish life on campus, from the Jewish freshmen to nonJewish students interested in learning about different cultures.