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SALZMAN-SITTIG Janet Salzman and Gary
Salzman of Huntingdon Valley
and Southampton, and Honor
and Ray Sittig of Newark,
New York, announce the
engagement of their children,
Brandon Michael Salzman
and Taylor Danielle Sittig.

Brandon is a graduate
of Lehigh University and
The Philadelphia College of
Osteopathic Medicine. He is
in the final year of his internal
medicine residency with
PCOM. Taylor is a graduate of Villanova University, and earned her bachelor’s degree
in mathematics. She is an operations manager for Fairman Group Family Office.

Brandon is the grandson of Ruth Salzman and the late Abe Salzman, and
the late Rochelle and Morris Shuster. Taylor is the granddaughter of the late
John Hetherley, the late Beverly H. and Bruce Carter, and the late Calvin and
Catherine Sittig.

The couple lives in Plymouth Meeting and plan a wedding in 2022.

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COMMUNITYBRIEFS Two Area Companies Receive BIRD Funding
TWO LOCAL ENERGY COMPANY PROJECTS
were among eight chosen by the federal Department
of Energy and Israel’s Ministry of Energy, along with
the Israel Innovation Authority, to receive financial
assistance through the Binational Industrial Research
and Development, or BIRD, energy program, calcal-
istech.com reported.

W7energy LLC of Wilmington, Delaware, is
teaming with POCellTech Ltd. of Caesarea, Israel,
to make an affordable fuel cell system based on
hydrogen exchange membranes.

And Hit Nano Inc. of Bordentown, New Jersey, is
working with Tadiran Batteries Ltd. of Kiryat Ekron,
Israel, to develop nickel-rich cathode, silicon anode
Ken Levitan
Courtesy of Einstein Healthcare Network
and high-energy AA lithium-ion batteries to apply to
the internet of things, or IoT.

In all, $7.15 million was invested into the eight
Levitan has worked for Einstein for more than 13
projects. BIRD is represented in Pennsylvania, years, most recently as executive vice president and
Delaware and Southern New Jersey by the chief administrative officer, leading the organization’s
Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce.

Incident Command Center during the pandemic. In
those positions, he worked with senior leaders and the
Einstein Appoints Interim President and CEO
board of trustees to explore initiatives to help Einstein
Einstein Healthcare Network announced on Jan. 4 expand its geographic reach, improve accessibility of
the appointment of Ken Levitan as its interim presi- care and develop strategic partnerships and alliances.

dent and CEO.

Prior to serving as chief administrative officer,
Levitan, who was born at Einstein, succeeds Barry Levitan was chief information officer, leading
R. Freedman, who served in those positions for 18 the transformation of Einstein’s use of informa-
years before retiring Dec. 31.

tion technology. That included developing and
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implementing a network-wide electronic medical
record system. He also saw the deployment of more
than $25 million of IT equipment and software to
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery’s opening in
East Norriton.

Levitan’s father, Mark, served as Einstein CEO in
the 1980s.

James Beard Award Winner to Cook Virtually
for Congregation Rodeph Shalom
Michael W. Twitty, a culinary historian and Jewish
educator who has won a James Beard Award, will
conduct a virtual cooking demonstration at 6:30 p.m.

on Jan. 10 as part of Congregation Rodeph Shalom’s
debut Cook & Connect event.

Twitty will explore the intersections of his identity
as an African American and as an American Jew. His
cookbook/memoir, “The Cooking Gene,” explores
race as it relates to Southern cuisine and food culture
and traces his ancestry — both Black and white —
through food, from Africa to the United States and
slavery to freedom.

Future events in the series include Sababa Cooking
with Adeena Sussman on Feb. 21 and Fireside Chat
and Demonstration with Julia Turshen on March 7.

Register at bit.ly/rscookandconnect. For infor-
mation, contact Dina Horowitz at dhorowitz@
rodephshalom.org or 267-930-7289. l
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