130 YU Students Bring Purim Celebrations to Hospital & Nursing Home Patients
Mar 9, 2004 By: yunews
Mar 9, 2004 -- More than 130 Yeshiva University students in costume fanned out to 10 hospitals and nursing homes in Manhattan and The Bronx and delivered 350 baskets to patients to help them celebrate the festive holiday of Purim on Sunday, March 7. In addition to baked goods, fruit, and the traditional hamantaschen, a three cornered pastry, the baskets contained original poems and crossword puzzles. The students danced, sang, and read the Scroll of Esther at some locations. Pictured are YU students at Mt. Sinai Hospital's Peck Jewish Chapel with chaplain, Rabbi Aryeh S. Oberstein, a YU alumnus, in the back row.
YC senior, Ariel Bayewitz, and SCW sophomore, Tirza Schlanger, spearheaded this charitable effort with support of the Office of Student Affairs.