After davening and breakfast this morning, we then went to our service projects. Mine consists of going to Bright Beginnings to help out homeless children. Bright Beginnings serves over 175 families (including singles MOMs in need of care for their children) in Washington D.C. annually and the work they do is just phenomenal. After spending some quality time at the park with my group of 3 year olds, we then had our economic justice class. During this class we discussed the problems facing today’s lower class due to the gentrification around Washington D.C., and discussed the merits of gentrifying a neighborhood. Later, we had free time during which I went to go use the incredible workout facilities allotted to us by GW University. After working out with the starting Point Guard of GW’s basketball team, I then went to dinner. After dinner we had a Jewish activist seminar during which we had some of Judaism’s brightest minds (including a former Harvard graduate who now works in the Sanctions department of the U.S. Government). This was followed by covenant groups, during which we discussed our day and what was to come. At the conclusion of these groups we went to prepare for the day to come and our trip to the Arlington cemetery and the Pentagon.
-Nick S.
JAM '07
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