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PHOEBE ROSE AND MILLIE RUTH KLINGHOFFER
Wendy and Neil Klinghoffer of Huntingdon
Valley announce the birth of their identical
twin granddaughters, Phoebe Rose and Millie
Ruth Klinghoffer, on Dec. 1, 2020.

Sharing in their joy are parents Alexandra
Neophytou and Scott Klinghoffer, sisters Zoe
and Nora, Aunt Abbie and Uncle Kenny, and
cousin Charlie.

Photo by Alexandra Neophytou
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COMMUNITYBRIEFS Abramson Senior Care Appoints First
Female Board Chair
ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE named Lorraine
Drobny as the first female in its 155-year history to
serve as chair of its board of trustees.

After serving as board vice chair (2012-2019) and
first vice chair (2019-2020), Drobny stepped into the
role of chair in October.

Drobny succeeds Howard Davis as board of
trustees chair.

“This type of confident leadership doesn’t come just
from stellar professional experience, which Lorraine
certainly has,” said Carol Irvine, president and CEO of
Abramson Senior Care. “It comes from deep, unparal-
leled passion born of her personal experience finding
someone to entrust with the care of her own father and
finding herself being cared for in the process.”
Aside from her roles at Abramson Senior Care,
Drobny is a member of the board of trustees and
women’s philanthropy for the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia and past president of Hakol
Group for Hadassah. Outside of her volunteerism, she
is a principal at Stumar Investigations.

OROT Annual Event Slated for Feb. 20
OROT, which works to ensure that special needs
children enrolled in Jewish day school can remain in
their schools, with their peers and engaged in their
communities, will host its annual gala virtually at 7
p.m. on Feb. 20.

This year’s honoree is Perri Specter, a 2007 OROT
alumna, who started with OROT in the third grade,
graduated from Perelman Jewish Day School and
the Delaware Valley Friends School, then studied
illustration at the Ringling College of Art and Design
in Sarasota, Florida. She now works full time as a
graphic designer for the law firm Pond Lehocky
Giordano. Five program alumni graduating high school
this year — Michael Andelman, Olivia Collis,
Lily Rabinowitz, Brenen Grossman and Raphael
Shmulevich — also will be recognized during the
event. Teachers, current students and board Chair Chavi
Schwarzbaum are slated to speak.

OROT was founded in 1999 and today has about
50 students in area schools.

Chai. 28
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
NMAJH to Host North African Jewish Music
Presentation The National Museum of American Jewish History
will host a free presentation of North African Jewish
music on Feb. 17.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century,
Jewish vocalists and instrumentalists played
an outsized role in the production of music in
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia — a region known
as The Maghreb.

Historian Christopher Silver will provide a musical
tour of the North African Jewish past through sounds
both traditional and popular by drawing on rare
shellac records from his personal archive.

The presentation will be followed by an audience
question-and-answer session.

The public may tune in online for free, with a $10
suggested donation.

Visit nmajh.org/virtual-museum for details. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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