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Thursday, October 23, 1997 - Page 6 NEWS Jewish Student Union donates food given Compact discs up for Yom Kippur to local soup kitchen now being sold at Bookstore BY EMILY STAMATHIS While many students packed their bags Assistant News Editor and headed for a home cooked meal for Fall Break, Jewish students at WMC began their The new selection of compact discs be- traditional fasting for Yom Kippur with an ing sold in the WMC Bookstore are proving additional twist. The meals they forfeited for to be music to students' ears. the holiday were collected for a food drive Twenty CDs were sold within the first for the needy, three hours that the bookstore opened on The Jewish Student Union organized ef- October 1, according to Bookstore Manager forts with the cooperation of Englar Dining Thor Johnson. He said the response has been Hall to donate the meals to a Westminster "outstanding. " soup kitchen, explained Allison Silverblatt, The selection of music, which includes senior biology major. titles by everyone from Mariah Carey to "In place of what we would have eaten," Radiohead to Pavement, comes to WMC as bagged lunches were prepared and donated part of Barnes and Noble Bookstores. from the students' meal plans, Silverblatt Over the past few years the bookstore had said. "Glar was very nice to make up the attempted to sell older, "bargain bin" CDs meals." There were nineteen participants with much less success. total and "everyone we called responded," The new discs cost from 50 cents to $1.00 resulting in 56 meals, she added. more than they would in average retail stores, Yom Kippur is a day of atonement in the according to Johnson, with prices ranging the food drive. The students collected Jewish faith, and it is the "only day of the JSU member Renata Vesnovsky prepares/or it to a Westminster soup kitchen. the food from approximately $1110 $16. they would have eaten in Glar and donated year when you can pray for yourself," said "It's the same thing you can get in the Silverblatt. Fasting is not part of the atone- psychology major, explained that her former tion of the traditional apples and honey in mall, without the drive," Johnson said. ment, but it is done because food is believed synagogue would have "drives around the Ensor Lounge. Apples are round like the year CDs are chosen for the bookstore based to distract from the prayers and focus of the holiday times." Silverblatt and Corto also and honey is sweet, and together they sym- on charts, so the bestselling titles from a va- day. 11is in this spirit that Jewish people forgo said that their synagogues at home partici- bolize the anticipation of a prosperous year. riety of different genres of music are being food and drink from sundown to sundown pate in some sort of food donation. Vesnovsky explained that Rosh Hashanah is sold. once a year. The JSU is a fairly new organization to a major event for the group, but Passover Due to lack of space, there are no plans "I thought it was a good idea," explained WMC, as it's been in existence for only 3-4 Dinner is still the largest event the group to expand and include a larger selection of Heather COriO, junior sociology major and years. Although only 22 people are active sponsors. music, but every two weeks new titles are JSU member. "I wasn't eating and someone in the JSU, "the numbers have increased" While the food drive was a new event for added and the most popular ones are re- who normally doesn't [eat], got to," she said. from a year ago, said Renata vesnovsky, a the JSU, it is one they "plan on continuing," stocked. While giving food on Yom Kippur isn't sophomore biology major. Vesnovskyasserted. The drive "gives food officially part of the Jewish holiday, many The group sponsors many activities on to people who ordinarily don't have it," synagogues donate to local soup kitchens campus. It rang in the Jewish new year, Rosh Dobres said. "I'd like to see it done in the during this time Stacy Dobres, sophomore Hashanah, in early October with a cerebra- future." 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