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NE WSMAKERS
Ann’s Choice Jewish Residents’
Council hosted Jonathon Rosenbaum,
president emeritus and professor
emeritus of Jewish studies at Gratz
College, for its first lecture series of
2021. Rosenbaum’s topic was “How
America Changed Judaism - The
Impact of Religious Freedom,” where
he discussed Jewish expulsions from
Europe, the first Jewish congrega-
tion in the United States and the role
and history of Philadelphia in devel-
oping the Jewish religion. About 100
residents attended.

Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties
announced that it received $166,800 from the Claims
Conference to assist the more than 30 Holocaust survi-
vors in the region. The money will go toward programs
and services including home care, case management,
kosher Meals on Wheels, transportation and socializa-
tion programs. The Claims Conference negotiates for
and disburses funds to individuals and organizations
and seeks the return of Jewish property stolen during
the Holocaust.

From left: Jewish Resident Council
Education Chair Joe Shrager, Johathan
Rosenbaum and JRC President Phyllis
Halpern Photo by Bernie Roseman
Community members gathered on July 30 under the Israeli
flag at 16th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as part
of a continuation of a May 23 pro-Israel rally and in honor
of Connie Smukler, known for her involvement with seeking
freedom for Soviet refuseniks. Plans are for continued gather-
ings under the flag each Friday at noon.

From left: Jeffery
Barrack, Cindy
Smukler, Jewish
Federation of Greater
Philadelphia President
and CEO Michael
Balaban, Sharona
Durry and Eszter Kutas
From left: Rosalind
Geyer, wife of Holocaust
survivor George Geyer,
and Jewish Family
Service of Atlantic &
Cape May Counties
volunteer Ruth Niesen.

Courtesy of Sharona Durry
Courtesy of Jewish Family
Service of Atlantic &
Cape May Counties
COMMUNITYCALENDAR FRIDAY, AUG. 6
MONDAY, AUG. 9
Parsha for Life
Join Rabbi Alexander Coleman,
Jewish educator and psychotherapist
at the Institute for Jewish Ethics, at
9 a.m. for a weekly journey through
the Torah portion of the week with
eternal lessons on personal growth
and spirituality. Go to ijethics.org/
weekly-torah-portion.html to receive
the Zoom link and password.

Mahjong Game
Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El
Sisterhood invites the community
to join our weekly friendly mahjong
game, Mondays at 7 p.m. Cost is
$36 per year or free with MBIEE
Sisterhood Membership. For more
information, call 215-635-1505 or
email office@mbiee.org. 8339 Old
York Road, Elkins Park.

SATURDAY, AUG. 7
TUESDAY, AUG. 10
Ice Cream Social
Come celebrate the one-year
anniversary of Bend the Arc’s South
Jersey Moral Minyan — and our first
in-person meeting at 7:30 p.m. We’ll
share updates on our fair housing
work, have a short (five-minute)
Havdalah service and then head
to a local ice cream shop. RSVP at
bendthearc.us/southjersey_signup so that we can set up the outdoor
space according to social distancing
guidelines. Global Connections
Robert Siegel (former senior host of
NPR’s All Things Considered for 31
years) interviews Larry Silverstein
(chairman, Silverstein Properties),
Alice Greenwald (president and CEO,
National September 11 Memorial
& Museum of History) and Evan
Osnos (Pulitzer Prize recipient; staff
writer, The New Yorker) for “How
9/11 Changed Us,” part of Global
Connections: Navigating the New
Abnormal. The event is free and
begins at 4 p.m. Register at
gcaug.splashthat.com and
email afrmc@afrmc.org or call
212-279-2522 for more information.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11
Gratz Lecture
Gratz College will hold a Continuing
Legal Education program on John
Marshall’s career as a slaveowner
on the Supreme Court, raising issues
of ethics, justice, morality and the
motivation of the chief justice. It will
also consider how a society — and
the legal profession — faces its own
past and how that past affects our
future. For more information, contact
Mindy Cohen at 215-635-7300, ext.

155, or at mcohen@gratz.edu.

LGBTQ Support Group
This Jewish Family and Children’s
Service support group is for anyone
who is a relative of an LGBTQ
individual — grandparent, child,
cousin, parent — and is looking
for a space to process. This group
is a safe place to ask questions,
express emotions and learn from
other folks in similar places. RSVP at
jfcsphilly.org/supportgroups; Zoom
link provided upon registration and
meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact
Galia Godel at ggodel@jfcsphilly.org
or call 267-273-6006.

THURSDAY, AUG. 12
Game Luncheon
Join JAFCO FamilyMatters & Golden
Slipper Camp at 10:30 a.m. for its
annual luncheon and fundraiser with
an extensive shopping boutique,
raffles and an afternoon of games.

Bring your own playing cards and
mahjong sets. Space is limited;
seating will be available outside
under a tent or indoors in the
ballroom. For more information,
call 610-525-1040 or email
info@familymattersnetwork.org. 500 Shore Road, Linwood,
New Jersey.

Canadian Connections
Bill Gladstone, a professional
genealogist, publisher and author
based in Toronto, will provide an
overview of major resources for
Jewish genealogy research in Canada,
including censuses, naturalizations,
immigration records, border crossings
and city directories.This program at
2 p.m. is sponsored by the Ackman
& Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
at the Center for Jewish History.

Register at programs.cjh.org/tickets/
family-history-today-2021-08-12 for a
Zoom link.

Bend the Arc Meeting
Join Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
South Jersey for an evening of
focused movement-building in
South Jersey. Learn more about the
Moral Minyan, ideas for action and
start thinking about your role in the
movement. Our meetings are the
second Thursday of the month at
7:30 p.m.; register by the Tuesday
before. Sign up for email alerts at
bendthearc.us/southjersey_signup. l
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