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BOYS OF
SUMMER COVID-19 curtailed recreational activities last
year, but summer softball is back in 2021.

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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
$1.00 OF NOTE
LOCAL David L. Cohen
Nominated to be
Ambassador Comcast exec would
be ambassador to
Canada. Page 4
LOCAL Prominent Rabbis
to Retire in 2022
Keneseth Israel
Rabbi Lance J.

Sussman steps down.

Page 4
LOCAL Agencies Make
Plans to Reopen
Jewish organizations
return to in-person
services. Page 7
Volume 134
Number 16
Published Weekly Since 1887
New Kaiserman
JCC CEO
Ponders Business
Model JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
IN THE ERA OF a gym in every
shopping center, where does that leave
Jewish Community Centers?
Th e Kaiserman JCC’s board of direc-
tors hired Alan Scher to answer that
question. But the CEO doesn’t have an answer
just yet.

Th ree-plus weeks into his new role,
Scher said he needs to meet with the
board in person and talk to more
community members before he comes
up with a plan.

Scher’s Wynnewood facility is the
last JCC in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
a region with one of the largest Jewish
populations in the country. His mission
is to fi gure out how to build the three-
part business model that is supposed to
sustain a JCC.

See JCC, Page 8
Dov (left) and Steven Reidenberg at the Philadelphia Masonic Temple’s Egyptian Hall, where
Dov Reidenberg received his 25th Year Pin on March 18, 2019.

Courtesy of Dov Reidenberg
Jewish Masons Adapt to
Keep Fraternity Alive
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
BORN OUT OF the English and Scottish
guild systems of the 13th century, the
fraternal organization of Masons was
designed to help stonemasons regulate
the qualifi cations of guildsmen and fi nd
lodging when traveling town-to-town,
constructing cathedrals and city walls.

Yet 800 years later, long aft er the
Protestant Revolution, which halted
the building of Catholic cathedrals in
a newly-Protestant England, and the
invention of the cannon, which rendered
stone city walls a less useful defense, the
Masonic insignia of a square and compass
can still be found today: on rings, polo
shirts, car decals and license plates.

See Masons, Page 9
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