C ommunity
NEWSMAKERS Mark L. Tykocinski, a molecular immunologist, will receive
the Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce’s (PICC) 2019
Lifetime Achievement Award. Tykocinski is the provost and
executive vice president for academic affairs at Thomas Jefferson
University and The Anthony F. and Gertrude M. DePalma dean
of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

The Mesivta High School of Greater Philadelphia completed its new Torah and celebrated with
dancing in the streets.

A crowd dances in the streets of Lower Merion to celebrate the Torah.

Mark L. Tykocinski
Carole Miller has assumed the position of director of devel-
opment at OROT. Miller has held a variety of development
positions and most recently served as associate director of
admissions at Perelman Jewish Day School.

Sandy Bruck, who donated the Torah, participates in the celebration.

From left: Rosh
Mesivta Rabbi Avraham
Steinberg; Rabbi Shmuel
Kamenetsky, rosh yeshiva
of the Talmudical Yeshiva
of Philadelphia; and sofer
Rabbi Shmuel Schneid
Carole Miller
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