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Our Brand Launch Party, Beachadelphia, Was A Total Blast!

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Tribe 12’s Beachadelphia Brand Launch Celebration was a success! Just about 150 people gathered at William Street Common in University City to celebrate Tribe 12 and the fact that fun and values CAN be on the same page. Check it out, we were even featured in this article talking about why we were celebrating!

About 10 people smiling together as they clink glasses in the middle of their circle
After almost two years of hard work, the Tribe 12 team toasts to all the great work we’ve done and all the great work still to come. (Only after we’d finished set up for Beachadelphia, though!)

 

Upon entering the venue on Thursday, guests were given some sweet new Tribe 12 swag and ushered into a full-blast Tribe 12-themed party! We featured decorative balloons, festive centerpieces, and a giant new Step-and-Repeat. Guests held onto the last of the summer beachy vibes while schmoozing over fried Oreos and frozen chocolate bananas, and enjoying boardwalk-style games and a caricature artist, Mr. David Perry. 

Yael Pachino staged our hella-awesome photobooth. Props included the priestly values chest plate, teal hamsas, and of course: our logo. The talented Greg the Balloon Guy helped to add some extra fun and color to these photos!

Five staff members pose for a picture with Tribe 12 props and party decorations
Tribe 12 staff poses at the Beachadelphia photobooth! (From left: Rachel W, Rachel A, Danielle, Ross, and Mara)

 

Three young professionals pose with teal props in front of a Tribe 12 step and repeat
Guests were invited to pick from our array of Tribe 12-themed photobooth props before posing for this shot.

 

A young woman and a young man smile together and hold up cards while standing in front of a Tribe 12 step and repeat
Lauren and Bernie, two Tribe 12 regulars, chose to pose with our new collectable values cards.

 

Between the photobooth and the boardwalk-themed activities and snacks, you’d think we were good to go… But for Beachadelphia, we pulled out all the stops! We asked our friends Jonathan and Jonathan from J2Food to design a signature blue drink, the Tribe 12 Blue Lagoon! (PS Definitely check out J2Food events and catering. Everything Jonathan and Jonathan make is the bomb dot com slash amazing, and they are Tribe 12 Fellows!)

 

Blue cocktail with an orange slice garnish sits on a wooden cocktail table
A big thank you to Social Impact Studios for helping to make all of this possible and for capturing J2Food’s signature cocktail in great lighting.

 

A cocktail table is decoarted with 12 colorful collectable cards, a teal hamsa, and sand-filled mason jars with cocktail umbrellas
Festive centerpieces featured our event hashtag, some beachy vibes, and our new Core Values collectable playing cards.

 

A shot through an open door looking into a crowded room decorated with string lights. Sign over the door says "William Street Common"
The view from inside the secret venue.

 

A collection of small red and white popcorn bags
We also got this savory treat from Nuts 2 You and handed them out as a giveaway!

 

We had a great time on Thursday, and feel very lucky because we kinda get to do this every month. We hope to see you on October 5 for First Thursday Happy Hour!

ICYMI: Check out this silly, heartwarming, Tribe 12-esque masterpiece. These are only a few Tribe 12 stories. We hope to make many many more!

Hi, we’re Tribe 12!

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Oh hey guys – we’re Tribe 12!

What does this mean for you? Simply that the programs you’ve known by a few different names — from our signature happy hours and social programming, to our LGBTQ community, our entrepreneurship and leadership programs, and our in-house matchmaking — are all now housed under one roof!

So what’s new here? Let me show you around the place….

Two men and two women all wear matching green vintage-style baseball shirts with the name "The Collaborative"
This sweet tee is now officially vintage

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We took this opportunity to totally upgrade our look and feel, with a shiny new website (you’re on it!) and a funky new logo. Don’t worry though — we’re still the same vibrant and welcoming Jewish organization we’ve always been… we just got a LOT hotter since high school.

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Under the hood of our website is a much better way to track what we’re up to. It’s going to be easy for us to tell what works and what doesn’t, so we can deliver better and more impactful programming than ever before (and as a non-profit, we’ll be able to tell donors what we do so we can keep doing it for a long time!)

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Soon, we’ll share more about a big new addition to our website — an online community calendar and resource that lists ALL the events (not just ours!) for Jewish 20s and 30s in Philly. Basically it’s like Uwishunu went on Birthright. We can’t wait to tell you more — stay tuned!

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This is all so new and exciting… let’s party! Save the evening of Thursday, September 7th for a huge celebration with hundreds of your BFFs-to-be plus Tribe 12 board members and alumni. To get in the spirit, check out some of the great work that led us here in the first place. And don’t forget to mark September 7th in your calendar!

From all of us at Tribe 12, thanks for hanging with us and cheers to what’s next!

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Masks, Flasks and Illuminati Cookies: Things You Didn’t Know about the Frattiest Jewish Holiday

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Purim celebrates a time when a government tried to kill the Jewish people. And they failed! So now we eat! And drink!

For those who copped a shluf during Hebrew school, see this in-depth, drunken history of Purim provided by our friends at A Very Awesome Purim. 

Have you ever thought about what the word Purim even means?

Purim (פורים) is the plural of “lot,” like lottery. Back in Persia, around 350 BCE, there was a different, less fun, kind of lottery. Haman, an advisor to the King, picked a day to kill all the Jews. But, it turned out that his lot was the unlucky one, as he was the one killed.

So how did this chag become the Jewish child of St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween?

We are supposed to be so !*!*HAPPY!*!* on Purim that we can’t tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman—or someone who exudes goodness and someone who exudes evil. How do we do this? We dress up! We drink a lot!

#lechaim.

And, why the heck do we eat triangle cookies?

We can pretend hamantashen have to do with the Illuminati pyramid, but there are plenty of other explanations for these delicious triangular treats. Keeping with Jewish tradition, the symbolism of the delicious hamantashen is up for debate.

Hamantashen (hay-mohn-tash-en) literally translates to Haman’s pockets, something that hints at Haman’s corrupt nature. Some say Haman had triangular ears that were cut off before he was hanged.  Mohn, is also Yiddish for poppy seeds—a traditional filling.

So make yourself some Purim Plans! Here’s what is going on in Philly:

Thursday, March 9th
Young Friends of NMAJH Purim Party

Friday, March 10th
Graduate Network’s Pre-Purim Shabbat
NextGen Shabbat in the City

Saturday, March 11th
Monte Carlo Purim Masquerade

Sunday, Mar 12th
Kaiserman JCC Purim Carnival