The Jewish Federation's
March 6 & 7
S a t u r d ay, M a r c h 6
Connect With Community
Havdalah service with Joey Weisenberg of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute
followed by Schmooze Rooms to catch up with friends old and new.

S u n d ay, M a r c h 7
Do A Mitzvah
Make A Gift
Drop off a bag of food to one of six locations
Make a pledge to the Jewish Federation
from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to ensure that
those who are hungry have access to food.

of Greater Philadelphia: Answer the call •
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JewishPhilly.org/SuperSunday or 215.832.0500 for more details
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B o a rd Co- Ch a i r s
Ca m p a i g n C h a i r
Danielle Weiss and
Mitch Sterling
Gail Norry and
David Adelman
Sherrie Savett
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C ommunity
COMMUNITYBRIEFS Jewish Future Essay Contest Announced
ATLANTIC SEABOARD NCSY and Jewish Future
Pledge’s Youth initiative Jewish Future Pledge
announced a video/essay competition called the
Jewish Future Contest.

Although the contest is open to teens across the
United States, the focus is on high school students in
the Greater Philadelphia area.

The contest kicked off recently when NCSY
gathered 35 teen leaders from regional high schools to
hear from Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
board co-chair David Adelman, who is the CEO
of Campus Apartments. He described how he got
where he is and how each of them could embody
philanthropic principles and give back to the Jewish
community. “The businessperson in me looks at philanthropy
as — is there a problem I am invested in, and can I
help solve it? Certainly money is one way to do that,
and another is time. ... I encourage all young people
to find something you are passionate about and get
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that racism and anti-Semitism
remained below the surface.

The election of our first
African-American president
Barack Obama in 2008 was a
wake-up call to white suprem-
acists and other hate groups;
they realized that they would
soon become one of many
minorities and needed to find
a means to retain economic
and political control. Donald J.

Trump’s presidential campaign
gave oxygen to these racist
and anti-Semitic groups and
individuals and multiplied
their dangers.

Although Trump has now
been defeated at the ballot box,
the election was not a repudi-
ation of racism, anti-Semitism
and white supremacy. Over 70
million voters cast their ballot
for Trump, either despite or
because of his encourage-
ment of hate groups, and
some down-ballot Republican
candidates who
have supported extremist groups,
such as QAnon supporter
Marjorie Taylor Greene, won
their races.

President Joe Biden’s
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM involved. Bring your ideas. We may learn from you
and be able to change something to make it better.”
Teens can enter the content by either writing
or videoing themselves answering the following
question: What would you do for the future of the
Jewish people?
First prize will receive $1,000, second will receive
$500 and third will receive $250. The submission
deadline is March 30, with winners announced on
April 20.

To enter, visit atlanticseaboard.ncsy.org/
Jewish-future-contest. JFCS Dental Fund Named in Honor of
Longtime Employee Joanne Lippert
A Jewish Family and Children’s Service dental fund
for older adults is being renamed in honor of Joanne
Lippert, a longtime JFCS employee who died in July.

An anonymous donor contributed money for the
Joanne Lippert Memorial Dental Fund. That same
donor helped fund the program in 2008, working
victory is a positive step
but it is not enough. The
racists and anti-Semites have
found a home in Trump’s
Republican party. In the past
two elections, they may have
become the nation’s largest
group of single-issue voters,
and they are using not only
the ballot box, but voter intim-
idation and violence to remain
in control. In the minds of
the haters, if white supremacy
requires the end of our democ-
racy and replacing it with a
dictatorship, so be it.

The violent attempt to
overthrow our democracy on
Jan. 6 was a wake-up call to all
true patriots; we must actively
protect the Constitution and
the institutions that comprise
our constitutional republic.

The insurrectionists carried
Confederate flags and wore
shirts with messages of hate,
such as “Camp Auschwitz.”
Those of us who value equal
opportunity for all people,
regardless of their race, religion
or ethnicity, need to support
our democratic institutions.

In addition, overt prejudice
by any group against another
group must be unequivocally
condemned. As President Biden and
others have pointed out, we
are competing for the very soul
of our nation. Our democracy
is at stake. We cannot allow
our country to continue to
backslide to the overt displays
of hatred my father experienced
before World War II or the
covert anti-Semitism I experi-
enced in 1959. We must prove
to the world and ourselves that
despite the events of the last
few months and days, we are
better than that. l
Longtime business executive
Herbert Chubin, a Philadelphia
native, moved from Yardley
to Bethesda, Maryland, eight
years ago to be closer to his
grandchildren. He is now retired.

with Lippert to ensure elderly residents received
proper dental treatment.

Lippert established a partnership with Albert
Einstein Medical Center Dental Medicine along
with her husband, Dr. Rick Titlebaum, an endodon-
tist and faculty member at Einstein’s I.B. Bender
Division of Endodontics.

“Joanne advocated for the elderly, provided food
assistance to those who were hungry, offered a
financial bridge when someone was in a crisis, and
accommodated access to dental care for patients who
lacked the means or even guidance on how to start
the process,” Titlebaum said.

Over the years, JFCS expanded its partnerships to
include private dentists and Penn Dental Medicine.

“Joanne was a remarkable woman and clinician
with a kind heart who gave tirelessly of her time
here at JFCS to support vulnerable members of our
community,” said Pia Eisenberg, a JFCS senior vice
president. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
Rodney Continued from Page 15
my political party starts spreading
messages against the Jewish right
to self-determination, a basic
human right, and endorses
movements that spread blood
libels about my people, then
I begin to feel ostracized and
scared. I am a student at the University
of Pennsylvania. When I pitched
this op-ed topic to my class-
mates and explained that I fear
these congresswomen and their
potential abilities to push the
Democratic Party to hate Israel
even more, one classmate told
me to “be careful because my
argument sounds Trumpian.”
These congresswomen have
normalized hating Israel and
Jews so much so that I am now
considered a “Trumpian,” and
completely ostracized by my peers,
for expressing my concerns for
Israel and the anti-Semitic rhetoric
these women are spreading.

I am not a “Trumpian.” I am
a proud Zionist Jew who feels
like my party, the Democratic
Party, has taken a turn for the
worse. l
Sophia Rodney, a student at the
University of Pennsylvania, is a
campus fellow for Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting
in America and president of Jewish
Heritage Programs.

Letters Continued from Page 15
On Intermarriage and Assimilation
Susan Yemin comments on another letter (“Kvetch ’N’ Kvell,” Jan. 14) and states that the writer
doesn’t understand the reality of intermarriage and assimilation. She also states that we have to be
more inclusive of those who have married out of our faith.

But in any intermarried couple, we must keep in mind that the non-Jewish spouse is not of our faith and
the children may not be Jewish either. Should we have accepted the reality of Egyptian slavery and not left
Egypt? Should we have accepted the reality of Babylonian or Roman subjugation and abandoned Torah?
It may be nice that her son is raising her grandchildren “to be good and ethical people,” but
without the basis of Torah and Jewish law, what ethics are being taught? Secular ethics can and
have changed over the centuries. Torah ethics have remained immutable. l
Harold Rose | Narberth
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