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FEBRUARY 28, 2019 / ADAR 23, 5779
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Volume 239
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Rabbi’s Dog Wins
Honors at
Westminster JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
FRIDAY, FEB. 22 was a good day to be an
Abrams Hebrew Academy student.

Right after shacharit, rather than being
shuttled off to class as they normally
would, the entire student body was seated
in the auditorium, big kids in folding
chairs and little kids sitting criss-cross on
the ground — when they could actually be
cajoled into sitting.

Teachers and administrators milled
about as the exquisitely groomed star of
the assembly scrabbled on the slippery
wooden floor on all fours, panting and
yelping, clad in tiny pink bows the same
color as her extended tongue.

Adults shushed hopelessly as Brooklyn
the Tibetan terrier, the Best Female Tibetan
Terrier at the most recent Westminster
Kennel Club Dog Show in New York,
prepared for a special stop on her victory
tour. (Her prize is technically the “Best of
Opposite,” awarded to the opposite sex of
the Best in Show winner.)
“Please, let’s be on time, let’s go!” pleaded
Rabbi Ira Budow, one half of Brooklyn’s
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Samara Barrack, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, shares her experience of what happened on
Feb. 14, 2018.

Photos by Selah Maya Zighelboim
A Year After Parkland,
KI Teens Take Action
SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
ABOUT 450 PEOPLE from across the
area came to Reform Congregation Ken-
eseth Israel (KI) in Elkins Park on Feb. 19
and filled the sanctuary in anticipation of
a speech by a Jewish 10th-grade student.

That 10th-grader was Samara Barrack,
a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School shooting in
Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2018, which left
17 students dead and 17 others wounded.

She spoke as part of “Taking Action: One
Year Later,” a gun violence prevention
event organized by KIFTY, KI’s chapter
of NFTY, the Reform Jewish youth group
organization. “I just want the world to know what I
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