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Volume 133
Number 43
Published Weekly Since 1887
Those We’ve
Lost, Part 6
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
WITH COLD WEATHER causing people
to spend more time indoors and delays
hindering the national vaccine rollout,
the death toll of the pandemic continues
to grow.

As of press time, 441,831 people have
died of COVID-19 in the United States. In
Pennsylvania, the fi gure stands at 21,687.

In our fi ve-county region — Philadelphia,
Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks
counties — 7,131 people have died of the
disease. Th is is the Exponent’s sixth install-
ment of “Th ose We’ve Lost,” because these
people deserve to be remembered as more
than statistics.

Mary Heller Cope
Mary Heller Cope died Jan. 10 of
Alzheimer’s disease and complications from
COVID-19. Th e Yardley resident was 86.

Born in Englewood, New Jersey, she gradu-
ated from Oberlin College and received a
master’s degree in public administration and
business from Radcliff e College. She also was
one of the fi rst international exchange students
to Germany with American Field Service (now
AFS-USA) aft er World War II.

She married Dr. Constantin Cope in
1957 and the couple raised their children in
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Klielle Glanzberg-Krainin harvests vegetables at True Love Farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont.

Courtesy of Klielle Glanzberg-Krainin
Why Young Jews Are
Flocking to Farming
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
FOR AMERICAN JEWS living in the
Northeast, it may seem strange to celebrate
Tu B’Shevat in January.

How do you celebrate the birthday of
the trees at a time when they look cold
and dead?
Th e answer lies under the surface,
according to Klielle Glanzberg-Krainin.

“Around now is when the sap is starting
to fl ow in the tree, so if you’re tapping,
like, maple trees to make maple syrup,
around now is when you start tapping,”
she explained.

Th e recent Tuft s University graduate spoke
about her experience learning about sustain-
able food production on farms at a Tu B’Shevat
webinar for Beth Sholom Congregation and
Kehillah of Old York Road. During “What’s
See Farming, Page 13