On Feb. 25, Jewish Student Union (JSU) will have its Foods Day. The event will mostly comprise of members of JSU and a representative from the Jewish Federation. “The representative will tell us Jewish stories and teach us about the holidays,” Brett Gerstein, president of JSU and senior, said. JSU will hold the celebrations afterschool in the baking classrooms.

The overall purpose of this day is to have a big feast and have fun. “In old Jewish feasts, it was traditional that people get drunk. Without doing this you did not have half the fun,” Gerstein said.

“On this day we eat Haman,” sponsor Shelly Rubinstein said. Haman is a triangular cookie that you fill with something comparable to Jell-O. “The minister always wore a triangular hat,” Rubinstein continued. “So eating Haman symbolizes the victory of Judaism.”