C ommunity / mazel tovs
B I RTHS
ANNIVERSARY CHASE ETHAN CLAVER
MARKS Marilyn and Mel Claver of Wynnewood announce the birth of their
great-grandson Chase Ethan Claver on Dec. 9. Alyssa and Joshua
Claver of Chicago are the parents.

Sharing in the happiness are Chase’s grandparents Alan and
Maurine Claver, Don Antram, Jamie Antram and David Evans;
great-grandparents Fred and Sue Weller and John and Carol Evans;
and aunt Melissa Claver
Elizabeth and Edward Marks of Philadelphia celebrated their
75th anniversary on April 13. Their three children and spouses,
eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren rejoice in their
remarkable achievement and simcha.

Photo by Joshua Claver
BARAK TZVI AND LAVI SHALOM NAUSS
Miryam (née Kornfeld) and Guy Nauss are the parents of identical
twin boys, Barak Tzvi Nauss and Lavi Shalom Nauss born on March
26 in Astoria, New York.

Maternal grandparents are Tom and Sara (née Caine) Kornfeld of
Denver. Paternal grandparents are Moshe and Carmela Nauss of Givat
Shmuel, Israel. Maternal great-grandparents are Burton and Shulamith
Caine of Cynwyd, and Donna Kornfeld and Edwin Kornfeld z”l of
Denver. Paternal great-grandmother is Sara Cohen of Bnei Brak, Israel.

Photo by Miri Kornfeld Nauss
Photo by Bonnie-Kay Marks
COMMUNITYBRIEFS Gratz College Combines
Three Programs as Center
for Holocaust Studies and
Human Rights
GRATZ COLLEGE
announced that it established
a Center for Holocaust Studies
and Human Rights to combine
three of its fastest-growing
academic programs under one
roof. Under the direction of Ruth
Sandberg, the center will house
three programs with overlap-
ping curricula: Holocaust
and Genocide
Studies, Human Rights and Interfaith
Leadership. By grouping the programs,
the center “promises to enhance
learning opportunities, stream-
line programming and encourage
collaboration with academic
organizations at other colleges
and universities,” Gratz said in a
news release.

“All three of these individual
programs address human
problems that are universal:
hatred, intolerance, inequality
and violence,” Sandberg said. “In
this new center, we can really
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM focus on educating people so we
have less misunderstanding and
less ignorance, and, therefore,
less hatred and less violence in
the world.”
The center will allow students
enrolled in any of the three
programs the flexibility to
design their own curriculum and
cross-register for courses that fit
their individual needs. It also
will provide support for existing
resources and programming,
such as the biennial Arnold
and Esther Tuzman Memorial
Holocaust Teach-in and the
Holocaust Oral History Archive.

Sinakin, who has the Star
of David emblazoned on his
trunks, was profiled in 2018 by
the Jewish Exponent.

Before every fight, Sinakin’s
team circles up, putting their
arms around one another.

Sinakin and his father, Lincoln,
recite the Shema — in Hebrew
and English — before the boxer
breaks out into the personal
prayer he composed:
“Please give me the strength
of Samson; please give me the
courage of King David; and
please give me the wisdom of
King Solomon. Amen.”
‘The Jewish Bulldog’
Suffers First
Professional Loss
Boxer Benny Sinakin, whose
nickname is The Jewish Bulldog,
suffered his first professional
loss on April 3 at the 2300
Arena in Philadelphia, falling
to Bronx, New York-based
Nigerian Afunwa King.

Sinakin, 23, fell to 6-1, with
three knockouts, as two judges
ruled 58-56 for King, while the
third judge ruled it even at 57-57.

Real Estate Agent Rita
Roy Dies at 98
Rita Roy, 98, who became a
real estate agent in her 50s and
remained active into her early
90s, died April 2 at her Center
City home.

Olney native Roy and her late
husband, Charles, a wedding and
portrait photographer, opened
LeRoy School of Photography
after World War II, where
Temple University sent students
for credits in photography, son
JEWISH EXPONENT
Phillip Roger Roy said. In 1950,
they opened a fashion photog-
raphy studio in New York City’s
garment district.

Later, Rita Roy managed the
Blue Bird Bridal Shoppe on South
Street, owned by her mother-
in-law, and briefly worked for
her son at his Grendel’s Lair
Cabaret Theater on South Street
while she studied for the real
estate exam.

She worked at Jackson-
Cross Co. and at Prudential
Fox & Roach, where her ads
dubbed her “The Mother of All
Realtors.” l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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