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One of 60 boxing tobacco cards, ca. 1910 (Lot
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10 JANUARY 24, 2019
JEWISH EXPONENT
H EADLINES
NEWSBRIEFS The Forward to Cease as Print Publication
AFTER 121 YEARS, Th e Forward will cease as a print publica-
tion this spring and instead focus on English and Yiddish online
editions, the New York Post reported on Jan. 16.

Th e Forward will lay off 40 percent of its editorial staff , includ-
ing Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner.

Th e Post said Th e Forward is looking to attract those under 35
who read news primarily online.

“Th e Forward is taking the next step in making our brand
more relevant to our readers and more connected to their lives,”
Publisher and CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen said.

An unnamed source in the Post article said Th e Forward has
“been losing money for years, but lately the losses have been
more than $5 million a year.”
Furloughed Workers Can Receive No-Interest Loans
Th e Hebrew Free Loan Society of Greater Philadelphia
announced that local federal workers who are unpaid during
the government shutdown may apply for no-interest, no-fee
loans of up to $1,250.

Borrowers must earn no more than $50,000 in annual federal
salary and live in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and
Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania or Burlington, Camden,
Gloucester and Mercer counties in New Jersey. Th e program
is nonsectarian; borrowers don’t need to be Jewish to qualify
for a loan.

Loans will be available until the fund is depleted. Loans must
be repaid in full 90 days aft er the borrower returns to work. Apply
at hfl philly.org/ShutdownLoans.htm or call 267-225-7822.

Prison Congregation Gifts Photo to Interfaith Center
Th e Jewish Congregation at Phoenix, a maximum security
prison outside Philadelphia, gift ed the historic 1993 photo of
Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Palestine
Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to the
Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, congregation coordi-
nator Bob Lankin said.

Th e photo, where both men are posing with President Bill
Clinton, originally hung in an area designated for a synagogue
at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Lankin said.

Th at synagogue closed in 2016 aft er the prison was audited by the
federal government regarding compliance with the Prison Rape
Elimination Act; because the synagogue has no cameras, it was
found to be in violation and closed.

Th ere was no synagogue space in the new prison (built next
to Graterford), so the old synagogue items, including the photo,
were stored away until recently.

‘Hello Dolly!’ Star Carol Channing Dies at 97
Carol Channing, who won fame for her role in Hello Dolly! on
Broadway, died Jan. 15, JTA reported. She was 97.

Th e daughter of a Jewish mother, Seattle-native Channing
learned to speak fl uent Yiddish from the grandfather of her
fi rst husband.

Channing fi rst gained fame in 1949 in Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes as fl apper Lorelei Lee, singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s
Best Friend.”
She won a Tony Award in 1964 as Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly!
She played the role for the last time in a 1995 revival.

Channing won a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1995, and in
1981 was inducted into the American Th eatre Hall of Fame. ●
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