C ommunity
MONDAY, APRIL 5
Virtual Israel Hike
In this Golden Slipper Gems course
with Israeli tour guide Gadi Ben Dov,
participants will virtually visit the
must-see sites of Israel over four
weeks. Classes start at 1:30 p.m.

Cost $34. For more information,
call 610-359-8632.

Grateful Jews
What draws Jews to the Grateful
Dead’s music, lyrical themes,
philosophy and experience?
“Grateful Jews” is an online seminar
that explores that relationship. The
class is two sessions, two hours
each, starting at 7:15 p.m. Cost $21.

Contact Reb Zisha at rebzisha@
gmail.com. TUESDAY, APRIL 6
Places of Worship
AJC’s “Protecting Places of Worship
Virtual Forum” will educate faith
leaders on how to prevent and
respond to hate crimes that target
houses of worship and religious
institutions. Register for the 1 p.m.

event at zoom.us/webinar/register/
WN_3ea_LizdRO6w4uqKJdNd9w. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
Revolutionary War
“How We Became A Nation,” a
Golden Slipper Gems course,
examines the major political,
economic, military and social aspects
of the American Revolution and
highlights the history of Jewish
patriots who served. The course is
six weeks and costs $51. Sessions
are at 11 a.m. Contact 610-359-8632
for more information.

Writing Parents’ Stories
Authors Bernice Lerner and Susan
Jacobowitz will share insights about
their parents’ stories of surviving
the Holocaust and the role of their
own scholarship and writing about
intimate tales of suffering, rupture,
continuity and courage. Tickets for
the Center for Jewish History event
at 4 p.m. are pay what you wish.

Registration required at /tickets/
family-affairs-2021-04-07. Yom HaShoah
Join Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El
at 7 p.m. on Zoom for a special
remembrance and candle-lighting
ceremony as we hear from
guest speaker Edith Eva Eger,
psychologist, Holocaust survivor
and author of “The Choice and The
Gift.” Call 610-649-5300 for more
information. THURSDAY, APRIL 8
Bend the Arc
Join Bend the Arc at 7:30 p.m. on
Zoom for an evening of focused
movement-building in South Jersey.

Learn more about the Moral Minyan
and ideas for action. Contact
bendthearcjasouthjersey@gmail.com for more information. l
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N E W S MAKE R S
Marcia Bronstein, regional director of AJC Philadelphia/SNJ, appeared on the 6abc “Building It
Better Together Town Hall: Take Action Against Hate for Asian Americans” on March 21. She
appeared alongside Chad
Lassiter, executive director
of the Pennsylvania Human
Relations Commission; John
Chin, executive director of
the Philadelphia Chinatown
Development Center;
and Alix Webb, executive
director of Asian Americans
United. Screenshot by Jesse Bernstein
On March 22, the Caring
Committee of the Shirat
Hayam Congregation in
Ventnor City, New Jersey,
hosted a drive-through/
drop-off program where
they collected more than 25
bags of food and boxes of
diapers to donate to Jewish
Family Service of Atlantic &
Cape May Counties.

Marc Needleman, a longtime
Shirat Hayam congregant,
delivered the goods to the
Margate, New Jersey, agency.

Courtesy of Jewish Family Service of
Atlantic & Cape May Counties
Ohev Shalom of Bucks County hosted the “Matzo Mania Drive Thru Experience” on March 21.

Participants were first greeted by the Four Sons from Ohev’s Men’s Club, where they received
a Passover game packet and were able to drop off chametz and non-kosher for Passover food.

A DJ played festive Passover tunes and the Ohev Shalom Sisterhood provided everyone with
“Surprise Sinai Swag,” a bag of Passover goodies. There were drive up games like “The Matzah
Ball Madness Toss,” “Guess How Many Frogs in the Jar” and “Set The Seder Plate.”
Photos by Barbara Glickman
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