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OPINION Crossing Bridges
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Volume 133
Number 38
Published Weekly Since 1887
Planning Underway
for Jewish
Farm JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THERE ARE A LOT OF WAYS to get to
Doylestown from Philadelphia. You could
take 202, or 611, if you wanted. You could
even take back roads, if you’re a glutton for
punishment. Yitzchak Glasman’s road to Doylestown,
where he hopes to break ground on Shalem
Farm in February, took him on a route that
included years-long pit stops in France,
Israel, California and all over South
America. His road to Doylestown involved
marrying an American, a freelance garden
design business and losing his job due to
the pandemic.

Th e road to the future site of Shalem
Farm has been as circuitous as it could
be, but Glasman is hoping that the Jewish
educational farm he plans to build is going
to be worth the trip.

“I want the farm to be a demonstration
of what we can do when we use our Jewish
permaculture techniques,” Glasman said.

Glasman, 36, grew up on the west
side of Paris in a neighborhood he said
was sort of like Lower Merion (he lives
Philadelphians protest on June 2 in Center City.

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2020: Year in Review
SOPHIE PANZER |JE STAFF
IN JANUARY, the Jewish Exponent
asked leaders in the Philadelphia Jewish
community to share their thoughts and
goals for the year ahead.

No one could have anticipated that
a global pandemic, social unrest and a
contentious presidential election would
make the year even more tumultuous
than 2019, which featured multiple armed
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WE’RE A twitter
ABOUT JEWISH PHILADELPHIA.

attacks on Jewish communities in the
United States and Europe.

Th is year tested Jewish institutions, families
and individuals in ways they have never been
tested before. Yet, in keeping with the nearly
4,000-year history of the Jewish people,
members of our community met devastation
with strength, creativity and resilience.

Here’s a look back at the stories the
Exponent covered. Go to jewishexponent.

com to read them all.

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