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COMMUNITYCALENDAR SATURDAY, APRIL 17
Trivia Night
Join jkidphilly’s 10th birthday
celebration with a Zoom trivia night
for adults. Play on your own or one
team per screen. Event starts at
8:30 p.m. and cost is $36. Contact
jkidphilly@jewishlearningventure.org for more information.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18
Fling into Spring
Congregation Beth Or’s Sisterhood
hosts its premiere Outdoor Spring
Fling from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come
for shopping, snacks, summer camp
information and a raffle. Located
at 239 Welsh Road, Maple Glen.

Free parking available. For more
information, call Sherry Spector at
215-378-1454. Nashirah at Gratz
Learn about the history of the only
auditioned Jewish choral group in
Philadelphia during this Gratz College
webinar. Choir members will share and
discuss several pieces of music, and
the conductor and artistic director of
the choir, Julia Zavadsky, will discuss
conducting and active listening. Zoom
is at 11 a.m. and cost is $10. Contact
mcohen@gratz.edu or 215-635-7300,
ext.155, for more information.

Jewish Festival
Join Bucks County Kehillah at
noon for a virtual baking lesson with
Chana Weinstein and at 1 p.m. for
a virtual pickling lessons from the
Kosher Pickle Factory. Call 267-872-
9202 or email buckscounty@kehillah.

jewishphilly.org for more information.

Service and Dialogue
Join Beth Am Israel Congregation
at 2 p.m. for an interfaith day of
service and dialogue with service
projects and panel discussions on
Zoom and meet-ups in real life for
collections and community garden
cleaning. Call 610-667-1651 for more
information. Maccabeats
Congregation B’nai Jacob of
Phoenixville will host a celebration
honoring Rabbi Jeff Sultar at 7 p.m.

with a Zoom live concert featuring
the internationally acclaimed a
capella group, the Maccabeats.

For donation and reservation
information, visit congbj.org/
maccabeats. TUESDAY, APRIL 20
Virtual Author Series
Jewish Family and Children’s
Service and Beyond the
Bookends host a series of intimate
conversations with award-winning
authors. This week’s selection is
Melrose Ronald H. Balson’s “Eli’s
Promise,” a historical fiction novel
that spans Nazi-occupied Poland,
postwar Germany and Chicago at
the height of the Vietnam War. For
questions or more information,
contact Sharon Schwartz at 267-256-
2112 or sschwartz@jfcsphilly.org
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21
Workshop for Moms
Transformational Breathwork
practice facilitates the integration
and transformation of negative
beliefs into feelings of self-love,
acceptance and joy. Join Jewish
Family and Children’s Service and
Spirit Medicine virtually at 8 p.m. to
experience this practice. For Zoom
link, contact Sarah Waxman
at swaxman@jfcsphilly.org or
267-804-5888. l
N E W S MAKE R S
On April 6, the Groen family
shared the story of their family’s
violin. Though its original owner,
Bram Rodrigues, was killed in
Auschwitz, the violin survived,
hidden away by a friend of
Rodrigues’ in Amsterdam.

In 2019, the violin was finally
returned to the Groen family.

For Yom HaShoah, some family
members presented the story of
the violin at an event sponsored
by numerous synagogues and
schools. From left: Marcel Groen and
Kenneth Sarch
Photo by Stacey Salsman
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey joined
MAZON: A Jewish Response to
Hunger and the Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia
on April 7 to discuss “the crisis of
hunger in the wake of COVID-19
and what policy solutions must
advance to spark, support, and
sustain the national recovery.”
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey
Courtesy of Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Gladys Fink, owner of Nana’s
Kitchen & Catering, gave an
empanada-frying demon-
stration to celebrate National
Empanada Day on April 8.

The segment aired on PHL17.

Gladys Fink
Photo by Malena Senderowitsch
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