TOUGH
JOB TAKEOUT TIME
A documentary about Ramallah Mayor
Musa Hadid depicts a daily balancing act.

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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
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Johnny Bench
memorabilia for $1M.

Infl uential
Jewish Leader
Ted Mann
Dies at 92
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ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR
OF NOTE
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Up to Plate for
Hall of Famer
LOCAL Jewish Federation
Raises $1M, Gets
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Community groups
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Volume 133
Number 37
Published Weekly Since 1887
PHILADELPHIA LAWYER Th eodore
“Ted” Mann, who led numerous Jewish
organizations both worldwide and locally
for years and was an early critic of Israel’s
West Bank occupation, died Dec. 12 from
COVID-19, JTA reported. He was 92.

Burt Siegel, a retired director of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of
Greater Philadelphia — an organization
Mann headed in the 1970s — said his
mentor was a modest man who under-
stood the meaning of Jewish ethics.

“He did not think of himself as an
important man,” Siegel said. “He thought
of himself as someone doing important
work.” “He was comfortable with people and
comfortable with ideas,” said Larry Rubin,
another former JCRC leader, who fi rst met
Mann as a Washington, D.C., representa-
tive of the American Jewish Congress.

Mann gained particular notoriety
in 1987, when the group, with Mann as
See Mann, Page 12
Dr. Richard Fine receives his fi rst COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Photo by Wesley Hilton
Health Care Workers
Receive First Vaccine Doses
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
FRONT-LINE HEALTH CARE workers
at hospitals and clinics throughout
Philadelphia received their fi rst doses of
the Pfi zer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
last week aft er the Food and Drug
Administration granted an emergency use
authorization on Dec. 11.

Hannah Leeman, a pandemic planner
for the Public Health Preparedness
Program for the city’s Department of
Public Health, Division of Disease
Control, got hers on Dec. 17. She couldn’t
be more excited.

“It feels really historic to be part of
this,” she said.

Leeman, who is also a resident at
See Vaccine, Page 13