‘PASSPORT’
CHECK BUNDLE UP
Eight-part miniseries dramatizes the story
of the “angel of Hamburg.”
JANUARY 6, 2022 / 4 SHEVAT 5782
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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
$1.00 Online efforts likely
a permanent part of
future campaigns.

Philadelphia Vaccine
Mandate Presents
Challenge Page 4
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
LOCAL PHILADELPHIA INSTITUTED a
COVID vaccine mandate eff ective Jan.

3 for “establishments that sell food or
drink for consumption onsite,” said a
news release on the city’s website.

And while several owners and managers
of Jewish establishments said they believe
in the vaccine’s effi cacy, they are mixed on
whether the mandate is needed.

As Steven Nawalany, the owner of
Lipkin’s Bakery on Castor Avenue, put it,
the mandate is “tough.”
According to the kosher bakery owner,
the mandate is diffi cult not because it will
require extra labor to check cards at the
door. It won’t.

But rather, it will be diffi cult because so
many of his patrons are unwilling to even
wear masks. Lipkin’s has a mask sign on
its door and kicks people out if they don’t
wear one.

“They go to other businesses,”
Nawalany said.

OF NOTE
LOCAL Nonprofits
Revamp How
They Fundraise
Synagogues Close
to Finding New
Rabbis Two synagogues are
vetting finalists.

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OBITUARY Cantor, Musician
Paul Frimark Dies
at 69
Cantor played in
Jewish bands, too.

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Volume 134
Number 39
Published Weekly Since 1887
In 2017, the Yiddish Culture Festival at Haverford College hosted anarchist punk band Koyt Far
Dayn Fardakht.

Photo by Wanyi Yang
Yiddishists Search for
Community to Preserve
Revered Language
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY in South
Philadelphia, gaggles of Jewish children,
many of whom were children of Holocaust
survivors or refugees, fl ocked to Sunday
schools around the city where they’d learn
Yiddish, a language they’d hold onto for
their entire lives.

“It was a time of a renaissance of
interest for that generation of children
of immigrants,” said Rakhmiel Peltz,
a sociolinguistics professor at Drexel
University. “To them, the essence of their
See Mandate, Page 12
See Yiddish, Page 13
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