Every year between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, you may find your Jewish friends asking you for forgiveness. During these ten days of repentance, Jewskis have the annual opportunity to ask that their wrongdoings of the year past be forgotten. Basically, all your Jewish pals just got let off for the time they stole your beer, threw up in your toilet and hooked up with your significant other. So, in our humble opinion, this is a pretty darn good week for the Chosen People.
But even before the high holidays, Penn Jews were on a roll. On Friday, the Orthodox crowd partied at a Shabbat rager on Beige Block. But of course you didn't hear about it, since your Sabbath-observing friends turned their cell phones off for the weekly day of rest. Come Saturday, even the less observant Jews showed everyone what was up. AEPi, home of the cultural Jewish male, threw an obscenely packed army-themed party. Camo and Israeli Defense Force shirts were worn, perhaps reminding the partygoers of that night they hooked up with an Israeli soldier on Birthright.
If you ventured to American Apparel on Saturday afternoon to stock up on some theme-party garb, you might have witnessed a bizarre incident in which the store's security guard (we always wondered why they needed a guard) tackled a large woman accused of stuffing merchandise into her purse. When she finally gave up her loot of two pairs of extra-small underwear, shoppers silently stared. It's not Yom Kippur yet, lady - there's still time to beg for forgiveness.
