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Cheltenham. She was passionate
about public service and educa-
tion, which she considered part of
her Jewish heritage and identity,
and served on executive commit-
tees for local chapters of the League
of Women Voters, American
Cancer Society, American Field
Service, Cheltenham Township
Government Study Commission,
the Cheltenham Center for the
Arts, the Cheltenham Adult
School and the Elkins Park
Library. She was awarded a citation
from the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives for her exemplary
record of service in 1995.

In 2004, she and her
husband retired and spent
several years in Bend, Oregon,
where they provided a schol-
arship for students at the local
community college.

“She just loved being
involved with the community
and volunteering, and she was
one of those people who would
do absolutely anything for you
if she could,” her daughter
Connie Franckle said.

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of COVID-19 at the age of 91.

She was raised by her father
and grandparents in West
Philadelphia aft er her mother
died when she was young.

She grew up speaking Yiddish
with her grandparents, who
immigrated from the Pale
of Settlement, and remained
fl uent throughout her life.

She graduated
from Overbrook High School in
1947 and worked as a secretary
for Milton Shapp, who would
go on to become Pennsylvania’s
governor, before she became a
mother. She married Leonard
Hoberman and had three
children. Th e couple would
have celebrated their 70th
wedding anniversary on Jan 7.

Sally Hoberman
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Her daughter Eileen Roseman
Dec. 30 due to complications said she was a dedicated mother
known throughout her neigh-
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granddaughter, Dr. Abigail Tripp
Berman Th e Yardley resident was
born and raised in South
Philadelphia, and his family
was one of only a few Jewish
families in the area. He was a
graduate of Temple University,
where he earned a bachelor’s
degree and a master’s degree
in psychology. He served in
the Air Force in Bermuda and
worked as a logistics manager
for the Navy for 35 years.

He was married to his wife,
Karen Malinoff , for 40 years
before her death in 2007. Th e
couple raised their children
Conservative Jewish and
belonged to Congregations of
Shaare Shamayim.

“He and my mom were very
active with the synagogue,”
said his son, Josh Malinoff .

He was an avid Philadelphia
Edward Malinoff
sports fan and enjoyed visiting
Edward Malinoff , 84, died the Jersey shore, especially
of COVID-19 on Jan. 19.

Margate and Atlantic City. He
also loved music, sang frequently
and even sent a song he wrote to
Billy Joel, who wrote back to say
he only sang his own material.

He remembered the lyrics to
songs from old movies with
great accuracy despite having
dementia in his later years.

“What we really, to be
honest, remember the most is
his sense of humor,” said his
daughter Dori Cowan, adding
that her father was known for
his love of witty puns.

her grandchildren with school-
work and playing games with
them. “Since she passed away,
we’ve had people who grew up
in the neighborhood talking
about how they always felt
welcome coming to our home,”
she said.

She was diagnosed with
dementia at age 89 and moved
to Artis Senior Living of
Huntingdon Valley.

Roseman remembers her
mother’s love of laughter.

“We would just laugh at the
silliest things, and then, you
know, we would get it under
control and I would look at her
and she would look at me and
we just start laughing all over
again,” she said.

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Song Book,” an album of
original songs, with his writing
partner Marvin Weisbord at
age 102. Th e album garnered
national attention and was
covered by CBS, NPR, Th e
Washington Post and even
“Th e Kelly Clarkson Show.”
“Aside from boundless
creativity, Alan was a hopeless
romantic. He wrote verses
non-stop and enjoyed charming
an audience,” Weisbord said in a
statement. Tripp was born in
Leavenworth, Kansas, and
graduated from Northwestern
University. He worked as a
newspaper reporter in Chicago,
a radio broadcaster in New
York, a copywriter for a New
York advertising agency and a
columnist for an ad business
trade journal before moving to
Philadelphia. He spent four years in
the Army Signals Corps and
served during World War II.

He became president of the ad
agency Bauer, Tripp, Foley, Inc.,
which produced live weekly
TV musicals and oversaw local
and national TV ads.

He relocated to New York in
1966 and served as president
and CEO of Product Resources
International before returning to
Philadelphia in 1987 to be near
his family. He was married to his
wife, Maggie Tripp, for 73 years.

“He was a source of just
Alan Tripp
constant support in every way to
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at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr retire- daughter Dr. Abigail Tripp
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Drawing Jewish 20-somethings
to Farming?” on Jan. 27, three
Jewish college students discussed
their experience working on
farms and its connection to their
Jewish identities.

Jessica Schenk, a sopho-
more at University of Vermont,
and Simmy Decker, a junior at
Brandeis University, have both
participated in World Wide
Opportunities on Organic
Farms, more commonly known
as WWOOF-ing. Th e program
links visitors with a global
network of organic farmers to
promote a cultural and educa-
tional exchange and build a
global community focused on
sustainable farming.

Decker has worked on farms
in Israel, the Pacifi c Northwest
and Hawaii. Producing fruits
and vegetables reminded her of
the Jewish tradition of recog-
nizing where food comes from
in the blessings before meals, a
corrective to a food production
system that relies on discon-
nection and distance.

“We devote that time before
we eat our food to think about
how our food grows, whether it
grows in the ground, whether
it comes from a tree,” she said.

Schenk decided to start
WWOOF-ing due to the
pandemic, which closed the
summer camp she was planning
to work at and moved her
classes online. She changed her
plans and worked on farms in
Pennsylvania and Tennessee,
where she learned how to care
for cows and harvest vegetables.

Th e experience completely
changed the way she thought
about eating. She grew used
to cooking based on what was
in season and available, rather
than what she could fi nd on
supermarket shelves.

Now, she goes out of her
way to select less-than-perfect
produce, knowing that it may go
to waste due to superfi cial fl aws.

“Something that I’ve been
trying to do more recently is
that even if something doesn’t
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look perfect, that doesn’t
mean that it’s not still going
to be delicious, or, you know,
completely edible or just good
when cooked. So I try to be less
picky about the food that I’ve
been eating,” she said.

Glanzberg-Krainin was
drawn to agriculture from a
young age and grew up growing
vegetables in her grandparents’
garden in Vermont. She worked
on a farm near their house for
several summers during college.

She spent last year on a farm
in Israel, where she studied
permaculture, the design of
agricultural frameworks based
on natural ecosystems. She also
interned on an urban farm in
West Philadelphia in the fall.

She loved the work, and is
now interested in pursuing a
career in sustainable agricul-
ture and food justice.

Nati Passow, operations
manager at Dayenu: A Jewish
Call to Climate Action, said
young adults’ interest in
farming experienced a revival
between 10 and 15 years ago.

“Our society is one in which
people are largely disconnected
from their food, disconnected
from the earth,” he said. “It’s
been a kind of reawakening of
sorts, a resurging interest in
fi nding work that feels more
physically meaningful.”
Passow was the co-founder
and executive director of
Jewish Farm School, a Jewish
sustainable agriculture organi-
zation in Philadelphia that
closed in 2019. He said many
of the young adults who partic-
ipated in its programs, like
summer camps and alternative
college breaks, felt like they
didn’t have a Jewish home in
synagogue life. Joining the
farm school seemed diff erent.

“Th ey fi nally felt like they
had people who were simulta-
neously interested in Judaism,
interested in creating a robust
and vibrant Jewish life and
doing so also in an environ-
mentally sensible way,” he said.

While the organization no
longer runs programs for young
Jewish farmers, it created a “seed
packet” of tools and resources
to be used by synagogues, day
schools and Jewish individuals
interested in seeking a spiritual
connection to their food.

Th e Jewish farm movement
is far from over in the
Philadelphia area.

Farmer and
Jewish educator Yitzchak Glasman
is planning to start building
Shalem Farm in Doylestown
this month. The organic farm
will be an education site for
Jewish sustainable agricul-
ture, and Glasman is using
some of the JFS “seed kit” to
develop his programs.

Th e pandemic also has height-
ened interest and concern about
food production systems. Passow
said many organic farming
programs are working to meet
demands for donations to food
pantries in the face of widespread
hunger and unemployment.

Farming presents job alterna-
tives to students like Schenk and
Decker, whose plans for work
and school changed in the face
of remote classes and shutdowns.

Glanzberg-Krainin said
Judaism and farming have
provided comfort in the face of
uncertainty. “When you’re farming, you
can do everything right and
then still have a crop failure
because of the weather or like
any number of things,” she
said. “I feel like a big part of
what’s important to me about
Judaism, or I guess just being a
religious person more broadly,
is just like being aware of the
mystery of the things that are
out of our control.” ●
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