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It’s spring … the perfect time to
refresh your summer wardrobe,
update your home decor, try some
new gourmet recipes and shop.

Visit Beth Or’s Spring Fling from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. in the synagogue’s
parking lot. To become a vendor,
contact Sherry Spector at
sspector1949@gmail.com or
Faye Benshetler at
febx@comcast.net. 239 Welsh Road, Ambler.

ISRAELI MUSIC
At 7:30 p.m., enter the inspiring
world of Cantor Rhoda J. Harrison
for an engaging musical evening
filled with a program of Israeli music
that spans the country’s rich history.

This musical event is being offered
by the Adult Education Committee
of Congregation M’kor Shalom as its
fundraiser for the programming year.

Tickets are $18 in person and for
remote attendees. Contact adulted-
ucation@mkorshalom.org or 856-
424-4220 for more information.

ORCHESTRA CONCERT
TUESDAY, APRIL 26
SPRING FLING
The Reform Congregation Keneseth
Israel Community Music Arts Com-
mittee announces the Cheryl Beth
Silverman Memorial Concert with
the Main Line Symphony Orchestra
at 5 p.m. Tickets are $15; students
with valid student ID free through
age 23. For more information, call
215-887-8700. 8339 Old York
Road, Elkins Park.

‘BRILLIANT’ MUSICAL
In honor of Autism Awareness
Month at Jewish Learning Venture,
playwright and composer Dani
Tapper shares her experience cre-
ating the new musical “Brilliant.”
For more information, contact
Suzanne Gold, Jewish Learning
Venture, at 215-320-0376 or
sgold@jewishlearningventure.org. FREE ESTIMATES
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APRIL 22–APRIL 28
WE D N E SDAY, AP RIL 27
TH U RSDAY, A P RIL 28
HOARDING SUPPORT
ADL GOOD FIGHT AWARD
YOM HASHOAH CANDLE
LIGHTING YOM HASHOAH LECTURE
Join Jewish Family and Children’s
Service and like-minded individuals
from April 13-July 27 from 5:30-7:30
p.m. in a supportive community
where you will learn tools to address
compulsive acquiring and saving.

To register or for more information
on sliding-scale options, contact
Rivka Goldman at 267-256-2250 or
rgoldman@jfcsphilly.org. The Philadelphia Holocaust Remem-
brance Foundation, Friends Select
School, Congregation Rodeph
Shalom and the Wassmuth Center
for Human Rights are participating
in the international Yellow Candle
Project, a campaign to remember
victims of the Holocaust, at 6:30
p.m. We will join together via Zoom
to light our candles (available here:
bit.ly/3uIJuKp). At this year’s The Good Fight at
5:30 p.m., Anti-Defamation League
Philadelphia will present the Amer-
icanism Award to Richard J. Green,
chairman and CEO of Firstrust Bank
and trustee of The Green Family
Foundation, for his commitment to
fighting hate. adl.org/TheGood-
Fight. 100 E. Penn Square, Ninth
Floor, Philadelphia.

Gratz College invites you to
commemorate Yom HaShoah and
honor those whose leadership,
advocacy and scholarship have
significantly advanced Holocaust
education and human rights in the
world. For more information and
how to support the Center for
Holocaust Studies and Human
Rights at Gratz College, contact
mcohen@gratz.edu or
nhousman@gratz.edu. JE



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Courtesy of the South Philadelphia Ladies Auxiliary #98
Courtesy of the Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties
Courtesy of Samuel Domsky
Courtesy of Kohelet Yeshiva High School
Out & About
Courtesy of Har Zion Temple
around town
3 1 Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Lower Merion hosted KoHack
2022, the first North American yeshiva high school coding hackathon,
on April 3 and 4. 2 Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley held a multifaith
gathering for people to learn about Passover, Easter and Ramadan on
March 29. 3 The Jewish nonprofit Tikvah celebrated a return to in-
person programming with a model seder attended by almost 50 people
on April 10. 4 On April 10, 400 volunteers helped with Project H.O.P.E.’s
effort to deliver kosher-for-Passover food to 650 recipients. 5 Members
of the South Philadelphia Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish War Veterans Post
98 organized a seder for veterans at the Delaware Valley Veterans Home
on April 11. 6 Jason Goldstein, owner of J.S. Goldstein Funeral Home in
Mays Landing, New Jersey, his wife Jessica and their sons Sam and Luke,
collected food from family and friends to distribute six Passover meals to
those in need through the Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May
Counties. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM
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