C ommunity
COMMUNITYCALENDAR FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Virtual 5k
Walk outdoors, run inside on the
treadmill or spin through this 5K
weekend to benefit the children and
families served by FamilyMatters,
a JAFCO Support Network. Event
will take place from April 9-12. Email
info@familymattersnetwork.org for
more information.

Interfaith Reflections
Join Women of Keneseth Israel for
a Zoom interfaith program on what
communities have learned from
COVID-19 and how they may
emerge stronger together.

7 p.m. RSVP by April 9 at us02web.

zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZYqfuqtqzMqGdaQl5VysKF4eMUsalxSPITK.

TUESDAY, APRIL 13
N E W S MAKE R S
Members of the National Council of Jewish Women Greater Philadelphia Section participated in
a collection of household items to support Dawn’s Place. Since 2009, Dawn’s Place has offered a
safe residential setting for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking.

From left: Lynne Jacobs,
Linda Lempert, Aileen Salus,
Linda Brosgol, Pearl Tragash,
Carol Stein, Faye Benschetler,
Betsy Parziale and
Ann Pollock
Courtesy of National Council
of Jewish Women
SATURDAY, APRIL 10 Zoom Trivia
Concert and Conversation
Join Reform Congregation
Keneseth Israel’s organist Andrew
Senn at 7:30 p.m. as he puts the
Phyllis K. Goldsmith pipe organ
through its paces in an action-
packed virtual concert. Cost $36 per
household, Zoom link provided upon
registration. Call 215-887-8700 for
more information.

SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Jewish Festival
Join Bucks County Kehillah at 10
a.m. and visit Jerusalem virtually
with Yonina, an Israeli music duo,
and enjoy their positive music. This is
the first of five Bucks County Jewish
Festival 2021 events. Register at bit.

ly/38ovA4A and visit jewishphilly.org/
bucks for more information.

Holocaust Memorial
Join the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia at 1 p.m. in
observing Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day. Commemorate
the 6 million Jews who perished in
the Holocaust and honor the survivors
in our communities. Register for the
virtual ceremony at jewishphilly.

org/get-involved/signature-events/ holocaust-memorial-day/.

Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El
Sisterhood presents an evening of
Zoom trivia at 7 p.m. There will be
prizes for the winners and all are
welcome. Cost is $15 attendance
for non–Sisterhood members.

Contact 215-635-1505 for more
information. “To-go” boxes, with meals by
Betty the Caterer, packed and
ready to be distributed from
Samuel A. Green House
Baby Shower Project
The Sisterhood of Congregations
of Shaare Shamayim will host
an annual virtual baby shower
mitzvah project meeting at 7:30
p.m. Donations of items for babies
from toddlers through age 5 will be
accepted and donated to the clients
of Jewish Family and Children’s
Service. Call 215-677-1600 for
details concerning donations.

Djennet Rusanova and Rita
Palumbo, staff members at
Miriam & Robert M. Rieder
Apartments/ Evelyn & Daniel
Tabas House /Center Park III,
show off the contents of the
“to-go” boxes.

Courtesy of Federation Housing
THURSDAY, APRIL 15
Family History Today
Garri Regev, president of the Israel
Genealogy Research Association,
will provide an overview of the types
of records available online and
where to focus when researching
family history in Israel during this
2 p.m. webinar for the Center
for Jewish History in New York.

Attendees can pay what they wish
for tickets. Contact 212-294-8301 for
more information. l
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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM With support from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s
Raphael-Sacks and The Pincus Fund for Hunger Relief, Federation Housing created and distrib-
uted Passover “to-go” boxes to more than 450 of its low-income seniors.

Barry Kahan and his sister, Judy Sander, honored the
memory of their late mother, Pearl Kahan Borten,
by donating 350 kosher-for-Passover cakes to the
KleinLife Home Delivered Meals Program. Kahan
and Sander engaged the services of Savvati Gourmet,
a local kosher caterer, who prepared the cakes and
packaged them with a cover photo of Borten and an
explanation of the donation.

Photo by Stephanie Hampson
On March 31, congregants at Congregation
Adath Jeshurun and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
in Elkins Park hosted a Zoom-based “Freedom
Seder,” combining Jewish and Christian tradi-
tions and histories. Attendees explored the idea
from Jewish mystical tradition that the exodus
from Egypt was the way out of a narrow mindset,
along with other aspects of the Passover story.

From the top: Rabbi Shai Cherry, Rev. Paul DeWitt
Reid and David Seltzer.

Photo by Rachel Palito
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