While i understand the need to attract donors, these affairs are over the top and many times contradictory to the cause they are raising money for.
The night after Tisha B’av, there was a FLEISHFEST in the Five Towns benefiting an organization and yeshiva that works with OTD or on the way to OTD boys.
The ad proclaimed ” WHISKEY INFUSED CIGARS – BOURBON, SCOTCH (i don’t remember all) TASTING !!
The grownups are allowed to all of these crazy things, and then we tell the kids NO? we are using the exact things we tell our teenagers are not right to raise money top help the kids that did EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING.
CRAZY!