MONKEY
BUSINESS GOT VAX?
“The Man of the Monkey” examines the diaspora.

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Rubin Dies
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ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR
LOCAL PHILADELPHIA REAL ESTATE icon
Ronald Rubin, a major player in the local
Jewish community, died April 12 at his
Penn Valley home. He was 89.

“Ronnie was the best of the great men
I’ve known, not because of what he did,
but because of who he was,” said his
longtime friend Steve Cozen, founder and
chairman of Cozen O’Connor law fi rm.

“His goodness, morals and ethics and
love of family really defi ned him. He was a
world-class mensch.”
In the real estate world, Rubin was
known for his role with PREIT, the region’s
largest mall landlord, as well for founding
the Center City District in 1991, which
made the city a cleaner, safer place.

A signature moment for Rubin, though,
occurred in the mid-1970s aft er the
pneumonia-like disease that came to be
known as Legionnaires’ disease killed 29
people staying at the Bellevue Stratford
Hotel on Broad Street in Center City.

OF NOTE
OBITUARY Businessman
Robert Fox
Dies at 91
Bereavement Group Helps
Seniors Meet Needs
Group meets in
person after months
of separation.

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LOCAL Fellowship Aids
Entrepreneurs Dean family assists
agriculture projects.

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Volume 134
Number 2
Published Weekly Since 1887
Fox School of Business
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Former Temple Dean
Indicted for Ranking Fraud
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
FORMER TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Fox
School of Business Dean Moshe Porat was
indicted on federal conspiracy and fraud
charges for submitting false data to boost
the school’s national rankings.

In an indictment unsealed on April 16,
prosecutors said Porat, 74, of Bala Cynwyd,
conspired with Isaac Gottlieb, a statistics
professor, and Marjorie O’Neill, a Fox
employee, to submit information about the
school’s online MBA and part-time MBA
degrees to U.S. News & World Report to
improve the school’s rankings in that publi-
cation’s annual surveys of top OMBA and
PMBA programs.

Th ey allegedly agreed to provide false
See Rubin, Page 12
See Fraud, Page 13
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