UPENN, PA — Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn Democrats and Republicans set aside their differences to share Shabbat meal.
Sharing Shabbat with fifty University of Pennsylvania students in a politics-free zone recently, provided a much-needed break for Joe Gross, vice president of the Penn Democrats.
UPenn Politicos Break for Bi-Partisan Shabbat With Chabad
UPENN, PA — Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn Democrats and Republicans set aside their differences to share Shabbat meal.
Sharing Shabbat with fifty University of Pennsylvania students in a politics-free zone recently, provided a much-needed break for Joe Gross, vice president of the Penn Democrats.
“Shabbat dinner gave everyone a nice reminder in the midst of an election season that there was a basic desire to be active and help our country that we share and respect,” Gross told Lubavitch.com.
“Republican-Democrat Unity Shabbat” is an annual event hosted by Rabbi Levi and Nechama Haskelevich, Chabad’s representatives serving Penn students, alongside director Rabbi Ephraim and Flora Levin, since 2000.
University of Pennsylvania Democrats, University of Pennsylvania College Republicans and the Penn Israel Coalition co-sponsored the dinner.
