LOOK
OUT CHAG SAMEACH!
FEBRUARY 25, 2021 / 13 ADAR 5781
For the latest in home and fashion trends,
see our special section “The Look.”
PAGE 22
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
$1.00 OF NOTE
LOCAL Pandemic Makes
Moving a Bigger
Hassle Moves delayed or
require extra steps.

Page 4
LOCAL Knitting Nonprofit
Promotes Healing
Ellen Rubin
educates on the
benefits of knitting.

Page 6
OBITUARY Former Budget
Secretary Michael
Masch Dies
He oversaw city,
state budgets for
Ed Rendell.

Page 10
Volume 133
Number 46
Published Weekly Since 1887
Elkins Park
Trio Helps
Seniors Get
Vaccines JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
FOR WEEKS, DANIELLE OTERO
clicked on COVID-19 vaccine appointment
websites, refreshing pages, to get her relatives
lined up for a shot.

Even though she was successful — some
had to go to Allentown, but a shot’s a shot
— she couldn’t help but think about the
many older members of her Elkins Park
Jewish community who didn’t have her
computer savvy.

So she decided to do something
about it.

Teaming up with friends Sarah Levin
and Rebecca Klinger from Beth Sholom
Congregation, Otero started connecting
older members of their community with
appointments. Otero taught Levin and
Klinger the tricks of the trade — which
websites to check for appointments and
when to check them, which Facebook
pages to follow.

With cases funneled to them through
Beth Sholom and the Kehillah of Old
York Road, Otero, Levin and Klinger have
See Vaccines, Page 16
“Purim” by Marc Chagall hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963, 1963-181-11
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Chagall’s ‘Purim’ Journey
to Philadelphia
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
IT TAKES PLANNING and a little
willpower to visit Marc Chagall’s painting
“Purim” during the pandemic.

You have to reserve a time slot at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art in advance,
get your temperature taken when you get
there, and navigate the museum’s warrens
of galleries. But it was a similarly circu-
itous route — from pre-revolutionary
Russia to Nazi Germany, from Brooklyn
to Philadelphia — that brought “Purim” to
Gallery 267a.

See Chagall, Page 17