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As Purim, a Jewish holiday, is coming up next week, the Jewish Student Union (JSU) hosted a Hamantaschen making party. Hamentaschen are traditional cookies eaten on Purim; they are triangular shaped pastries filled typically with jam or chocolate. Although a very small percentage of the Milton community is Jewish, Ms. Klein-Ash, Eliza Scharfstein, and I (the heads of JSU) were overjoyed by the huge turnout of around 35 students who came to bake, learn and hang out. We jumped right into covering our hands in flour, making WAY oversized cookies, experimenting questionable chocolate, raspberry, and grape mixed fillings, and teaching how to fold the round dough into the three-pointed pockets. It was an incredible experience to share the culture and tradition with so many familiar and new faces, who were all excited to participate. Additionally, we took the yearbook picture while the cookies were in the oven, and everyone wanted to be in it. It is not everywhere that you could find such a welcoming, interested, engaging and enthusiastic group of people. Although the actually cooking was a bit of a mess and all of the cookies smushed into one huge cookie while in the oven and we had to scrape them out of the trays to eat them… the baking bash was a blast!
Hi, and thanks for visiting us! We’re the leaders of Milton’s Orange and Blue Key (OBK) Society. OBK is the group of about 160 students who give tours to students and families visiting our campus. We work closely with the admission office to make sure you get a good sense of what it’s like to be a student at Milton. We hope that you’ll visit us in person, and until then, enjoy this “insider’s” view of the School we love.
