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NEWSMAKERS Rabbi Elyssa Cherney of
Temple Judea in Bucks
County is part of
InterfaithFamily’s first
cohort for its Rukin
Rabbinic Fellowship
Program. The program,
directed by another local
Rabbi Robyn Frisch, will
help hone its fellows’
skills working with inter-
faith couples.

Gratz College screened Who Will Write Our History on Jan. 27 in commemoration of
International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The program was sponsored by the Anti-
Defamation League Philadelphia, the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center and
the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, in addition to Gratz.

Rabbi Elyssa Cherney
Rabbi Lou Feldstein led a seminar on Creating a Culture of
Philanthropy at Shir Ami. Leaders from the congregation
learned the importance of engaging to help donors perform the
mitzvah of tzedakah.

Randi Boyette of ADL Philadelphia provides welcome remarks.

Rabbi Lou Feldstein
The Israel Innovation Authority and Thomas Jefferson University
recently signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in
the field of technological innovation. This collaboration agree-
ment provides an effective way for Israeli companies to validate
their technologies and enter the U.S. market via the Greater
Philadelphia region.

Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors of Philadelphia members
From left: Mark Tykocinski; Ami Appelbaum, chairman of the board of
the Israel Innovation Authority; and Zvi Grunwald, executive director of
the Jefferson Israel Center
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Akiva Hollinger, an immigrant to Israel originally
from Allentown, was the second-place finisher of
Nefesh B’Nefesh’s inaugural Entrepreneur Boot
Camp Pitch Night, a finale event where partic-
ipants of the organization’s six-week boot camp
presented their business ideas to a panel of indus-
try leaders. Hollinger’s company, Negev Family
Fabrication, creates affordable custom bunk beds for
small apartments.

From left: Yosef Abramowitz, CEO of Energiya Global
Capital and co-founder of the Arava Power Co.; Rabbi
Yehoshua Fass, co-founder and executive director of Nefesh
B’Nefesh; Akiva Hollinger; Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jewish
World editor and archeology editor at The Times of Israel;
Beth Newmark, general partner of Emmaleh Student Housing
in Be’er Sheva; and Shariel Gun, who heads the joint KKL-
Nefesh B’Nefesh “Go Beyond” initiative
The University of Pennsylvania held a memorial lecture honoring
the late Norman M. Hall, a doctor who spent most of his career at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Pottsville and who played a role in
establishing the Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Dave Chokshi, the
chief population health officer at New York City Health + Hospitals
and an alum of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, spoke at the lecture.

From left: John Chawluk, a doctor in Pottsville; Patrick J. Brennan, chief
medical officer of Penn Medicine; Dave Chokshi; Jack Greenberg, a doctor in
Philadelphia; and Wall’s son, Harry Wall
From left: Patrick J. Brennan, chief medical officer of Penn Medicine, and Dave Chokshi
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