Who we are!

This is the true story…of five strangers…picked to work in Washington, DC for the summer…to work together and network with other DC interns…to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting REAL.

Well, maybe not. But we couldn’t resist a shout-out to the Real World Season 23 filming in DC this summer. Who are we really? We are five summer interns in Washington, DC: Stacy, Marisa, Hannah, and the Bens (R and H). It’s true that we’ll be spending our time reaching out to Jewish interns in DC for the summer, planning events and letting other interns know about Jewish opportunities of all sorts going on while they’re here. We’re already planning a networking happy hour for Jewish interns next Wednesday at MadHatter, and our partner organizations—AIPAC and 6th and I Synagogue—have programs and offerings of their own to which we’ll be connecting the people we meet around DC this summer.

While we all hail from nerdy schools—Northwestern, Tufts, University of Chicago, and Cornell—each of us has something unique to bring to the table. Ben Halbig is, in his words, “viciously obsessed” with Israeli pop star Rita and classical music, especially opera. Hannah lived in Israel for a year after graduating high school, where she finally got to use all of the Hebrew curse words she learned at Jewish camp. Ben Ross spent two weeks in Kazakhstan working with the fledgling Jewish community there and bonding with young Jews in the former Soviet republic over $1.50 bottles of vodka. Marisa has been figure skating since she was five, and yes she can do “that twirly thing.” Stacy is obsessed with European royalty and especially the British Tudor period.

Want to know more? Check us out on Facebook (group: DC Summer ’09- Jewish Interns) and Twitter (JSummerDC09)!