C ommunity / mazel tovs
ENGAGEMENT GRANT-SCHLESINGER
Deborah and Lawrence Grant of Newtown and
Ellen Murphy of New City, New York, and
Howard Schlesinger of Fair Lawn, New Jersey,
announce the engagement of their children,
Rachel Shelbi Grant and Jeffrey Louis Schlesinger.

Rachel is a graduate of George Washington
University and The Wharton School of Business. She works as a human
resources director at Comcast. Jeffrey is a graduate of Ithaca College and
works as a commercial project manager at PCI Pharma Services.

Rachel is the granddaughter of Phyllis Grant, the late Seymour Grant and
the late Ruth and Harold Gittlen. Jeffrey is the grandson of David Berman,
the late Barbara Berman, the late Rhoda Berman, Edythe Schlesinger and
the late Marvin Schlesinger.
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COMMUNITYBRIEFS Jewish Groups Condemn State Sen.

Cris Dush For Second Time in a Year
Several Jewish organizations across Pennsylvania
condemned state Sen. Cris Dush on April 23 for using
Holocaust analogies when he questioned whether
nursing homes were used as “death camps” to reduce
the costs of caring for COVID-19 patients.

“Senator Dush clearly has learned nothing,” the
statement reads. “His rhetoric has no place in political
discourse or debate; these comparisons are offensive and
wrong. Repeated misconduct of this nature cannot be
righted by after-the-fact apologies and non-apologies.”
“We call on the leadership of the Pennsylvania
Senate to take meaningful action to clearly and loudly
demonstrate that they reject Senator Dush’s outrageous
rhetoric.” The statement was signed by the Anti-Defamation
League, the American Jewish Committee, the
Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania
Jewish Coalition and eight Jewish Federations from
around Pennsylvania.

Dush (R-Jefferson) was criticized a year earlier
when he compared Gov. Wolf and his administration
to Nazis for a lack of transparency in releasing infor-
mation on the state’s business waiver process.

State Rep. Jared Solomon met with Dush, who did
issue an apology on the House floor several hours
later, the next day to convey the impact the analogy
had on Jewish Pennsylvanians.

Dush tried to explain to Solomon that it had not
been his intent to evoke Holocaust imagery. He’d only insecurity with young adults while also training
meant to analogize the present transparency concerns young adults to be the next generation of anti-hunger
to the Nazis’ notorious suppression of information.

advocates, Challah is not only addressing immediate
needs but also creating the next generation of Jewish
leaders,” Rhein said.

Challah for Hunger Names New Board Chair,
The new board members are Amy Zitelman, Janu
Five Board Members
Mendel, Eden Gobuty, Maurice Baynard and Nathan
Challah for Hunger elected Wendy Rhein as its board Shapiro, and the student board representatives are
chair, along with five other board members.

Erica Friedman and Isaac Kravatz.

Rhein comes to Challah for Hunger with more
than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management Lisa Scottoline to Speak at FamilyMatters’
and fundraising and is chief of staff of World Food ‘Spring Into Summer’ Event
Programme USA. There she leads the strategic plan Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline is slated to speak
and its implementation and oversees organizational at the “Spring into Summer” virtual luncheon by
culture, a multi-year growth plan and management FamilyMatters, a JAFCO Support Network, at 10 a.m.

of the president’s office.

on May 26.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan
In addition, the event will honor Andrew S.

and Columbia University’s School of International and Margolis of A Margolis Realty Co.

Public Affairs and has spent much of her career in
The event also will feature raffles, a silent auction,
development with large and small organizations. Rhein shopping opportunities and an update highlighting
serves on the boards of the Freedom Network USA FamilyMatters’ services in the community.

and the Alliance to End Hunger, and chairs the Youth
FamilyMatters provides intensive support to
Committee and co-chairs the Racial Equity Action families in times of crisis, and those facing the
Group at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland.

impact of trauma or challenging life transitions, such
Challah for Hunger is a 501(c)(3) national as mental health and substance abuse issues, divorce
nonprofit leadership development organization based and custody issues, single parenthood, grandparent,
in Philadelphia. Its mission is to build communities or other relative caregivers, and raising children with
of leaders to take action against hunger, particularly special needs.

college hunger. It has 90 campus and community
Register for the event at FamilyMattersNetwork.

chapters across the country.

org/events. l
“By drawing attention to the crisis of food
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