HAPPY JULY 4TH!
ALONE TOGETHER
”Asia” considers the bonds lacking — and
created — between a mother and daughter.

JULY 1, 2021 / 21 TAMUZ 5781
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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
$1.00 Money aimed at
providing greater
sustainability. Israeli
Food Truck
Disinvitation Prompts
Complaints Page 4
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
OBITUARY ON JUNE 19, nonprofi t organizations
Eat Up the Borders and Sunfl ower Philly
disinvited Moshava, an Israeli-owned food
truck, from participating in the monthly
“Taste of Home” food festival.

Taste of Home, described by its
organizers as an “event celebrating diver-
sity through food, art, entertainment,
community,” and scheduled for June 20,
was later canceled, “to prevent any type
of discriminatory activity in our space,”
Sunfl ower Philly wrote.

Word of the cancellation came only
a day aft er Eat Up the Border wrote on
social media that Moshava would not be
participating. According to Nir Sheynfeld, owner of
the Moshava food truck, event organizers
reached out and dissuaded Moshava from
attending, fearing a potential boycott and
“that the protesters would get aggressive
and threaten their event.”
Other events at Sunfl ower Philly,
OF NOTE
LOCAL Jewish Federation
Announces $15M
in Funding
Rabbi Henry
Cohen Dies at 93
Beth David Reform
rabbi considered a
social justice pioneer.

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LOCAL Anniversary of
Entebbe to be
Recognized Rescue happened 45
years ago.

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Volume 134
Number 12
Published Weekly Since 1887
See Truck, Page 10
A 2019 event with Orthodox Jewish community members and local, state and federal elected
offi cials to promote dialogue between groups
Courtesy of David Kushner
At Least in Philly, Jews
Eager to Get Vaccinated
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
AS OF JUNE 28, 46.3% of the United States
population is fully vaccinated against
COVID-19, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

But with vaccination rates slowing to
an average of about 735,000 jabs daily, it
appears as though the U.S. will fall short
of President Joe Biden’s goal of 70% of the
population receiving at least one shot by
July 4, with that total currently at 54.1%.

Still, the task of reaching herd
immunity at this stage of the pandemic
does not equally rest on everyone’s shoul-
ders, as 70% of Philadelphians have
already received their fi rst dose of the
vaccine by mid-June, Billy Penn reported.

See Vaccinated, Page 11
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