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COMMUNITYBRIEFS New Exhibit Opens at the Temple Judea Museum
A NEW HOLOCAUST-CENTERED exhibit entitled
“Journey into Darkness ... Heal with the Beauty of
Life” debuted March 19 at the Temple Judea Museum
within Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in
Elkins Park.

The exhibit, which is on display through June
30, marks the museum’s first collaboration with the
Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center,
or HAMEC.

Harry Somer print
Frank Root
sculptural relief
Courtesy of the
Temple Judea Museum
impact I witnessed among my students when they
saw Frank’s work and heard Harry’s story,” Marlowe
said. “I wanted the community beyond our school to
experience the same power of art as a component of
Holocaust education.”
The exhibition may be visited in person by prior
appointment and masks must be worn. Call 215-887-
8700 to make a reservation.

CPA Firm Founder Howard Asher Dies at 87
Howard Burman Asher, who co-founded CPA firm
Asher & Asher in 1957, died March 19 at his home in
Center City. He was 87.

Asher & Asher grew to employ 100 people and
become the largest CPA firm in Philadelphia. It later
merged with BDO USA.

Asher served on many professional commit-
tees with the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and chaired Philadelphia’s Tax
Review Board during both the Green and Rendell
administrations. Asher was a fourth-generation member of Reform
Congregation Keneseth Israel, where he served in
many capacities. He was a trustee and volunteer for
the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia for
more than 60 years.

Scientific Researcher Beatrice Novack
Engelsberg Dies at 95
Beatrice Novack Engelsberg, who spent 50 years as a
scientific researcher, died March 8 at her Center City
home, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. She was 95.

In the 1960s and 1970s at the University
of Pennsylvania, she studied enzymes known as
cytochrome P450 that are vital in metabolizing
medication. She conducted lab experiments and
edited conclusions for publication.

At various times during her career, she worked
at Penn, Hahnemann Medical College, Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital and Rutgers University.

She was a member of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel
in Philadelphia and often discussed the importance of
Jewish culture in American life. Causes she supported
included Doctors Without Borders and the Southern
Poverty Law Center.

The exhibit includes objects from Temple Judea’s
Holocaust and Acts of Oppression and Resistance
collections, as well as paintings from Harry Somers
and sculptural reliefs by Frank Root provided by
HAMEC. The guest curator is Lisa Marlowe, a teacher at
Elkins Park Middle School who won the History GoPuff Raises $1.1B for Expansion
Channel’s first Teacher of the Year award in 2006.

Philadelphia-based beer and snacks delivery service
“The idea for this exhibition came to me from the GoPuff — whose founders Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir
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Gola are Drexel University alumni who spent time
at Drexel’s Chabad — announced that the company
raised $1.1 billion more to expand its deliveries, The
Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The lead investor is D1 Capital Partners, a $20
billion New York-based hedge fund run by University
of Pennsylvania graduate Daniel Sundheim. The
investment doubled its previous money-raising
efforts. GoPuff will add to its 250 local warehouses as well
as its 161 BevMo!-brand beer stores, while hiring
more engineers to improve its ordering technology.

The company also is considering adding foreign
stores and bolstering the number of kinds of items it
delivers. GoPuff employs more than 7,000 people.

The company said its value is now $8.9 billion.

Lindy CineMondays Starts April 5
The eighth year of the Gershman Philadelphia Jewish
Film Festival’s Lindy CineMondays kicks off April 5
with the first of six films.

Films cost $15 each and are available for
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware residents for
a seven-day streaming period. Tickets are available
at pjff.org.

The opening night film is “Love It Was Not,” a
documentary about a Slovakian woman at Auschwitz
and an Austrian SS officer.

“Here We Are” follows on April 12, telling the tale
of a father “emotionally unprepared to let go of his
autistic young adult son.”
“Shtetlers” airs starting April 19. The Russian
documentary explores the lost world of shtetls in the
19th century Pale of Settlement in the former Soviet
Union. “Outremont and the Hasidim” follows on April
26 and focuses on tension in the Central Montreal
borough of Outremont between 7,000 Chasidic Jews
and Quebec’s Francophone elite.

On May 3, “If You See My Mother” begins to air.

The film follows mama’s boy Max, who keeps seeing
his recently deceased mother, who refuses to leave
his side.

The final film, “Mish-Mash,” is slated to air on
May 10. The documentary examines the Frenkel
Brothers — three Jews who pioneered Egyptian
cartoon animation in the 1930s. l
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