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Philadelphia JCRC Names New Director
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SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
LAURA FRANK WAS drawn
to the Jewish Community
Relations Council’s mission
since the day she joined
Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia as a public
relations manager in 2017.

Now, aft er serving as JCRC’s
interim director for seven
months — aft er the departure
of prior JCRC director Batya
Glazer in July 2020 — she has
assumed the role of director.

“I’m excited to really be able
to dig deep and work with all the
amazing people that are involved
to make sure we’re doing every-
thing that we can and should do
to keep our community safe and
thriving,” she said.

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JEWISH EXPONENT
Laura Frank
A Seattle native, Frank
came to Philadelphia aft er a
year at a music conservatory
in New York to study political
science at Temple University.

As an undergraduate, she
was involved in pro-Israel
advocacy and anti-boycott,
divestment and sanctions work
on campus, and worked in
Harrisburg for a year as the
government relations director
for Pennsylvania’s community
colleges aft er fi nishing her
degree. She returned to Philadelphia
for an associate position
at Ceisler Media & Issue
Advocacy. A local PR project
with the Israel Ministry of
Foreign Aff airs toward the end
of her time with the agency
sparked her interest in getting
involved with Israel advocacy
and the Jewish community
again. When a public relations
manager position opened at
Jewish Federation in 2017, she
Courtesy of Laura Frank
applied and joined the organi-
zation. She later worked as the
director of public relations for
Jewish Federation and as the
publisher’s representative for
the Jewish Exponent.

JCRC Board
Chair Arlene Fickler said Frank’s
background in political science
and community relations make
her uniquely qualifi ed for the
role. “I am confi dent that Laura
will help us expand the partic-
ipation in JCRC’s work by
members of every sector of the
Jewish community, strengthen
our relationships with other
communities of faith and
ethnicity, and advance our
eff orts to build a just and
pluralistic society in which
all Americans, including our
Jewish community, are secure
and free to fl ourish,” she said
in a statement.

Frank had a chance to try that
out starting last summer, when
she became interim director.

See JCRC, Page 23
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