FASHION
PASSION GO TEAM USA!
Shani Weiss’ side hustle turns into the Schlep
and Schmoe clothing line.

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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
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namesake food
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Dating, Lox
Club Tries to
‘Reinvent the
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SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
LOCAL LOX CLUB DATING APP co-founders
Alec Lorraine and Austin Kevitch were on
their way to a wedding in Las Vegas last
weekend. Th e pair, childhood friends since meeting
in the second grade at Germantown Academy
and growing up together in Blue Bell, were
the best men for their roommate, who met
his wife on — you guessed it — Lox Club.

Th ough Lorraine, the app’s head of
engineering, described the match as a typical
“boy meets girl,” he co-founded Lox Club
with Kevitch, Lox Club’s CEO, to be more
than just the average dating app experience.

Lox Club is taglined as a dating app for
“Jews with ridiculously high standards.” It
was created in late 2020 as a foil to apps
designed to facilitate hookups, ones that took
themselves too seriously, yet drew an audience
that wasn’t at all serious about dating.

“I just thought they’re all so corny and
superfi cial and awkward,” Kevitch said. “I
understood why people were embarrassed to
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LOCAL Gymnastic Coach
Talks Olympics
Fred Turoff coached
Temple athlete at
Barcelona in 1992.

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Number 15
Published Weekly Since 1887
Temple Sinai in Dresher
Photo by Edy Israel
High Holiday Services
Mostly in Person Again
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
AREA SYNAGOGUES WILL REOPEN
for the High Holidays this year aft er
months of mostly virtual services during
the pandemic.

A sampling of Orthodox, Conservative,
Reform and Reconstructionist shuls
showed that all are planning on hosting
full in-person crowds for the September
events. Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown
on Sept. 6 and ends the night of Sept. 8.

Yom Kippur is on Sept. 15 and 16.

Last year, to keep crowds small,
Orthodox and Chabad synagogues
separated congregants into diff erent
areas, either inside and outside or in
diff erent rooms, and held simultaneous
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Her Painful Past
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Holocaust Survivor
Suzy Ressler Dies
at Age of 93
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