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PURIM UAlbany
5769/2009
Monday
3/9/09:
Megillah, Masquerade & Purim Carnival
Purim 09! An exciting evening in the UAlbany Campus Center Ballroom
It was a great event, the
first Purim Carnival in the CC Ballroom, with approx 250-300 students in
attendance throughout the evening. Thanks to the L'Chaim Board, Sheryl
Hoffman President, the many student groups who participated and ran
booths, UAlbany Hillel for their co-sponsorship and for arranging for the
AvodaArts actors (who ran a pre-Megillah Red Carpet Special and also
judged the masquerade contest), and who helped with set-up, schlepping and
clean-up, all who came in costume, and everyone who participated and
contributed to the festive atmosphere.
Schedule of Events -
Purim Carnival 09:
7pm - Drama Intro to the Megillah Story by AvodaArts Fellows
from NYC
7:20pm - Hebrew Reading of the Megillah Scroll of Esther, accompanied
by illustrated slideshow
8:30pm - Carnival Begins
9pm - Masquerade Line-up and Judging
10pm - Carnival Closes and Clean-up
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Off-the-Wall Velcro
Bounce on left and regular Bounce-House on right in the UAlbany Campus
Center Ballroom |
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Group Photo of
Masquerade contestants and friends on the Purim Stage |
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Happy girls in funny hats. Professional Photos by
Evan Lauber was a booth at the Carnival. |
These wannabee Breslov Chassidim with Prigat and
music from Israel |
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The AvodaArts
Fellows, Jewish actors from NYC, introducing and interviewing
masquerade contestants on stage |
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The UAlbany Fencing
Club did live fencing demos and had a great time at the Carnival |
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The Rubin Stimulus Package L-R: Dr Sara, Mushky as
Party Warehouse Retail Clerk, Moshe as road-construction worker, Rabbi
Mendel as MTA driver, Chani as a teacher, Bassie as Queen Esther with
an attache case full of TARP funds, Raizy was a MitzvahCell Battery
and Bluma as an "additional child tax credit." |
Thanks to Rachel and the Party Warehouse (on Fuller
Road) for the balloons and decor at the Carnival. Rachel is holding
Baby Bluma at the entrance to the Campus Center Ballroom and the Purim
Carnival. |
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Justin, Shoshana and
Mushky at the Lollipop booth. They all had great flavors, but only a
few had colored ends. |
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Moshe is enjoying watching Alexus go through the
"Where's Waldo" books with a magnifying glass. He knows where to find
Waldo on each and every page. |
Eric, Isaac and Marc, all seniors Class of 2009,
standing in front of Hillel's "FYSH FOR FYSH" booth. |
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The brothers of AEPI
ran a blackjack table (for fun, not money) to try to beat the dealer:
Alon on left and Kenny on right. |
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Eric Tabache and Adam Bakhash are the
first to dress up in velcro suits and try to the Off-the-Wall bounce.
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Cookie Monster (aka Lauren) meets a nice
Japanese girl from Brooklyn named Mushkie. |
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The Megillah Reading breaks the Fast of
Esther - so we had some bagels, shmears, Hamantasch Fondue and
Cotton-Candy. |
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Rabbi Mendel with some happy goldfish
winners |
IDF chums fresh from service (ok..
freshmen). |
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Ruach's Sand-Art
Booth was a big hit, well before the end of the Carnival all 100 of
their glass bottles were filled with colored sand by event
participants. |
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The OCF (Orthodox Christian Fellowship)
group ran a challenging soda contest booth, which culminated in a
grand 2-liter bottle soda race. Michael in green joker wig was the
winner (he also won the Latke Eating Contest last time we ran it).
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A Happy Flower Girl from Upstate NY |
L'Chaim President Sheryl Hoffman who
arranged the whole carnival together with Ashley Shirazi, the
consultant and chief assistant chef for the Pre-Purim Persian Shabbat
dinner. |
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Happy that it is Purim! |
Jen in the Turtle Hat |
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One of Evan Lauber's great photo shots
at the professional photo booth. |
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Salt and Pepper are ecstatic!
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Arielle (dressed as a bright idea), Gabe
and Sara (a dinasour and its food) and Mike. - Mike's red shirt reads,
"Never get lost in the crowd." with a picture of Waldo and UAlbany
Purim '09. |
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"Jimmy" brought lots of spirit to the
Purim night. |
Another side to Scott you never knew.
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Come in Costume - Prizes Awarded for Best Costumes,
anything creative works!
"Waldo" will be at the Purim
Carnival.. "where you're never lost in the crowd!"
Carnival Activity
Booths include:
The Purim Carnival is
sponsored and coordinated by
The L'chaim Student Group (SA funded)
and the Shabbos House Chabad Jewish Student Center
Co-sponsoring and
participating groups include:
Purim is a joyous holiday
that celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Haman’s plot of
annihilation in ancient Persia, as told in the scroll of Esther, read on
that day. In that spirit, the L’chaim Student Group, hosted a
masquerade carnival to generate a joyous and cheerful atmosphere of campus
unity. This year’s theme is “Where’s Waldo?” with the meaningful tagline:
“Where you’re never lost in the crowd” highlighting the value of each and
every individual. Our first Purim carnival was in 2007, and now in 2009 we
expanded the celebration, and extended invitations to all campus
groups to participate. We hope this can become an annual tradition at
UAlbany. For more info about
Purim Holiday
see VirtualPurim.com.
For additional Purim events at UAlbany see the
UAlbany Purim 2009 Page.
For additional
information contact students on the L'chaim Student Group Board
or Rabbi Mendel and Raizy at Shabbos House: 438-4227 /
mail@shabboshouse.com
Additional Purim events will be happening at UAlbany, sponsored by L'chaim
and the Shabbos House Jewish Student Center, see the
UAlbany Purim Page 2009 for more
information.
Browse Past
UAlbany Purims at the
PURIM UALBANY INDEX
Look for Purim Holiday Packets in Quad Dining Halls brought to you by
Shabbos House, L’chaim, UAlbany Hillel and Chartwells Dining Services.
UAlbany Purim 2009 is sponsored by
the L'chaim Student Group (SA funded) and the Shabbos House Chabad Jewish
Student Center serving UAlbany since 1976. Thanks to UAlbany Hillel and
numerous SA funded students groups for their participation and support.
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