A totally honest thread...from long long ago

[Denise_DPhiE]

Originally Posted by catiebug

How would you know a PNM was Jewish? Was it part of the rush application? Was the drop based on the PNM's last name (some last names are associated with Jewish families)? Was it based on that the PNM looked Semitic? I have to wonder.

From what I am told by our former council members, the women would ask pnm's "So what are you doing for the holidays?" if formal recruitment was in the fall. A Jewish girl would answer about the Jewish holidays coming up in September, just a few weeks away. Christians and others would have a why-the-heck-is-she-asking-me-about-Christmas-break-in-August look on her face!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE

From what I am told by our former council members, the women would ask pnm's "So what are you doing for the holidays?" if formal recruitment was in the fall. A Jewish girl would answer about the Jewish holidays coming up in September, just a few weeks away. Christians and others would have a why-the-heck-is-she-asking-me-about-Christmas-break-in-August look on her face!

In my own Recruitment thread, I mentioned how one woman talked about the Sedar Plate that her boyfriend gave her - little hints like that. The Roman Catholic sorority asked about the nuns at grade school. But that's when those things mattered.