‘GOLEM’ AWAKENS STEAM BATH Exhibit takes a look at death and associated Jewish rituals. JUNE 10, 2021 / 30 SIVAN 5781 PAGE 20 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA — $1.00 OF NOTE OBITUARY Survivor Michael Herskovits Dies Auschwitz survivor often spoke about his experiences. Page 4 LOCAL CookNSolo to Open Event Venue Lilah to debut in Fishtown in 2022. Page 7 LOCAL Abby Stein Advocates for Transgender Pride Talk chronicles challenges as a transgender woman. Page 9 Volume 134 Number 9 Published Weekly Since 1887 Former Rep. to Recount Search for War Criminals JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED the end of World War II and the end of the Th ousand-Year Reich, members of Nazi military and police units, political bodies and the scientifi c establishment lived on. With the war concluded and their political project in ruins, they had choices to make about how they would spend the rest of their lives. In some cases, they remained in Germany, serving in the post-war govern- ment; others moved abroad, living in varying degrees of self-imposed obscurity, or even anonymity. Among the latter group, some of them found safe harbor in the United States, working for the U.S. government through the long-secret Operation Paperclip. Other former Nazis were able to come here through normal immigration procedures. Th e Offi ce of Special Investigations estimated in 1979 that aft er the war, around 10,000 Nazis who had committed war crimes entered the See Criminals, Page 14 A woman told the Philadelphia Police Department that “three Middle Eastern males dressed as Orthodox Jewish men” had found out that she was Jewish and harassed her on the street. ChiccoDodiFC / iStock / Getty Images Plus Antisemitic Fears Creating a Hyperawareness JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF FOX 29 PHILADELPHIA ran a story about antisemitic harassment in Center City on May 29, with news spreading quickly aft er the story was posted, shared in a popular local Jewish Facebook group and picked up by a Twitter account run by StopAntisemitism.org, an online antisemitism monitor. “ALERT Philadelphia,” read a May 29 tweet from the account to its 21,000- plus followers. “- antisemites dressing up as Orthodox Jews are wishing women a ‘Shabbat Shalom’.” Th e tweet was liked more than 500 times and retweeted 349 times. 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Herskovitz was born in Botfalva, Czechoslovakia, to Pearl and Joseph Herskovitz, owners of the only grocery store in a small village with no radio. (Today, Botfalva is located in Ukraine). He was one of five children. During the years of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, laws publicly marking Jews and restricting their freedoms piled on. Herskovitz’s father, who wore a yarmulke and a beard, was beaten so severely outside of his grocery store by German soldiers that he was forced to close it soon after. As many as 277,000 Jews are estimated to have been murdered during the occupation and, in 1943, the entire Herskovitz family was sent to Auschwitz. Over the next few years, Herskovitz was shuttled between camps, sometimes forced into labor, as at Mauthausen, and sometimes simply fenced in, as at Gunskirchen. When he was liberated in 1945, Herskovitz, sick with typhus, weighed under 100 pounds. 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At Lilah, CookNSolo’s newest restaurant and first large venue and catering business, they hope their guests’ simchas will be anything but. Lilah boasts more than 7,000 square feet of space that will be able to accommo- date up to 250 seated guests in an industrial-style dining area, especially designed for weddings, b’nai mitzvah and other larger-scale events. The venue at 1601 N. Front St. will open April 2022 and also will house the second location of their vegan and kosher falafel shop Goldie. Despite working together for 16 years, Cook and Solomonov hadn’t considered catering as a viable business option; it seemed so different from running a restaurant. When they saw guests proposing, celebrating birth- days and engagements and holding small receptions at some of their other restaurants, Cook and Solomonov began to reconsider. Those occasions repre- sent bright spots in a difficult industry. “We’re trying to provide people with special moments,” Cook said. “When they choose our restaurant to celebrate these important milestones in their lives, that’s like gold for us.” By opening a venue in a larger space in Fishtown (the former headquarters of Honeygrow, the fast-casual food chain), CookNSolo can more easily accommodate guests who wish to hold special events at their restaurants. Solomonov believes that a catering venue will be able to add diversity to the ways in which See CookNSolo, Page 8 RONALD RUBIN May 30, 1931 – April 12, 2021 To our hundreds and hundreds of friends, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of love and support. Marcia Rubin and family Susie Rubin, Bill Rubin & Lizzie Merryman, Scott & Carrie Silberman, Judith Rubin Morse Garfinkel & Marvin Garfinkel, George & Lorraine Rubin (nieces and nephews) Gilead & Beverly Morse, Zoe Morse, Victor Morse Tim Rubin & Emma Allinson-Rubin, George R. Rubin, Katerina Rubin, Kelly Rubin Dan Rubin, Carter Rubin, Casey Rubin, Mikala Rubin, Tori Rubin, McLane Hendriks, Liza Hendriks From left: Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Photo by Michael Persico JEWISH EXPONENT JUNE 10, 2021 7 H eadlines CookNSolo Continued from Page 7 they get to serve their guests. From “a five-minute interaction with doughnuts and coffee” at Federal Donuts to “a drawn-out meal at Zahav,” “we want to be able to do it all,” he said. Lilah, the Hebrew word for “night,” encompasses the feeling of jubilee that Cook and Solomonov hope to achieve at their new venue. “Night is when the magic happens,” Cook said. “The sun goes down, and that’s when these special moments occur.” CookNSolo’s Director of Events Neira Jackson hopes that Lilah will provide guests with an opportunity to use a venue that is more personable than a hotel ballroom. With exposed brick walls and an “airy” layout, Lilah will offer a modern take on an event space, she said. CookNSolo have had the idea for Lilah since 2019, but COVID-19 restric- tions challenged Cook and Solomonov to reconsider how they wanted to run their business moving forward. “We got a chance to really stop and reprioritize the things that were important to us as a restau- rant group,” Solomonov said. Zahav is now closed two days a week, and staff are paid a starting wage of $16 per hour. “We’re a better company, actually,” Solomonov said. “I feel like the style in which we serve, the way that we’ve prior- itized guest experience and the team’s experience has really lined up nicely.” “It’s OK to step out of the box, it’s OK to try new things,” Jackson added. “That’s the one thing that COVID did — it made us push our boundaries.” Though Lilah’s small team of chefs is still developing dishes, CookNSolo plans on A rendering of Lilah’s exterior creating an extensive, custom- izable tasting menu with both new fare and returning favor- ites, such as pomegranate lamb shoulder with crispy Persian wedding rice. Guests can expect a carving Courtesy of Danielle Mulholland station, pita sandwich station and dessert buffet, along with traditional salatim, or salads, and inventive dishes such as foie gras baklava. “We’re really excited for this new chapter,” Cook said. “And to be this core part of this community: Philadelphia at-large, Philadelphia dining and the Jewish community.” l srogelberg@jewishexponent.com: 215-832-0741 S TAY S O C I A L . S TAY S A F E . STAY Bright. 1 # Brightview residents are thriving in our active communities, where highly trained associates provide around-the-clock support and strict safety protocols continue to protect the health and happiness of all who live and work here. This spring, residents are enjoying delicious, chef-prepared meals, socially distanced programs, recreation, entertainment, happy hours, fitness classes, and so much more with friends and neighbors who share their interests. Join them! WE'RE VACCINATED AND WELCOMING NEW RESIDENTS. 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Stein said that she did not witness homophobia or trans- phobia in her community, but instead had no knowledge that queer or transgender people existed. “I wish I had a teacher when I was 10 years old who would tell me how terrible trans people are, and that we’re going to hell,” she said. “At least I would have known that people like me exist.” In her June 3 talk over Zoom, “Journey for One’s True Self,” of Chasidism. She attended leaving her Chasidic commu- hosted by Hadassah of Greater yeshiva and became ordained nity in 2012, Stein married, Philadelphia, Stein chroni- as an Orthodox rabbi. Before had a child and was divorced cled her departure from her by the age of 21. Orthodox Jewish commu- Her 2019 memoir, nity and the challenges “Becoming Eve: My Journey she faced as a transgender from Ultra Orthodox Rabbi woman. to Transgender Woman,” She asserted that LGBT recounts her life up to that people in the Jewish commu- point and includes in the nity should not just be visible epilogue the story of when or tolerated, but celebrated. she came out to her father “Tolerance is meant in 2015. for lactose or for nuts, or “My dad never knew the sometimes, for the choice of word transgender until I came out,” Stein said. “It your friend’s latke toppings,” wasn’t a matter of accep- Stein said. “Tolerance is not tance. He didn’t know that for people. People, we need trans people exist.” to learn to celebrate.” Though Stein remarked Stein, 29, grew up in on the difficulties of LGBT Williamsburg, Brooklyn, erasure and lack of support the sixth of 13 children and from her family after coming a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder Abby Stein  Courtesy of Kate Johnson out, she cautioned against the belief that LGBT people have only recently existed in Jewish spaces. “Regardless of how we have been treated, we have always been,” Stein said. Stein asked her audience of more than 80 how many genders existed in traditional Judaism. As audience members typed “two,” “four,” “three,” “zero,” Stein looked shrewd. “I take no pleasure in saying what I’m about to say but ... you’re all wrong!” Drawing on excerpts from the Mishnah from more than 1,800 years ago, poems from 13th-century rabbis and kabbalistic teachings, Stein assured her audience that she wasn’t making anything up: There are six-to-eight gender identities described in Jewish texts, each with their own See Stein, Page 11 LIFE PLAN: choose your course They chose beautiful cottage homes within a premier 33-acre Life Plan Community. And just like that, Rydal Waters re-shaped their lives. Doug and Bill celebrate another round of good living. Now they can just lock and leave, with no worries about maintenance or security – and return to a welcoming community with a clubhouse, pool, fitness center and concerts. Blending good living with the wisdom of owning what’s next, that’s life planning. That’s a Life Plan Community. Ready to choose your course? 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Over the past 15 months, DVASA, a g roup of a dozen-or-so synagogue admin- istrators across the region, went from meeting sporadically to Zooming weekly, sometimes more, trading tips and tricks on how to stay afloat during the pandemic — and forging deep connections with each A recent DVASA Zoom meeting Conservest serves wealthy and successful clients throughout the United States. At Conservest, first we get to know you, and then we get to work. cca@conservest.com 10 JUNE 10, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT As a group, we are incredibly willing to share our experiences and information.” BRIAN RISSINGER other along the way. At first, DVASA members were emailing each other ceaselessly, trying to make sense of the rapidly changing climate. Wachstein made the snap judgment to host weekly Zoom calls instead as a way of exchanging information and supplies more efficiently: Where were people getting hand sanitizer? Disinfectant wipes? Were they supposed to be wearing masks? Wachstein feared for his employees safely. Brian Rissinger, execu- tive director at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel and a DVASA member for 34 years, was challenged with laying off dozens of staff members. Most shuls had to confront the operation of preschools. Many closed over the course of the pandemic and, when some reopened, administrators were tasked with designing proce- dures to keep both the children and staff safe. DVASA’s direction quickly pivoted when shuls began to close indefinitely. According to Wachstein, 2 0 -30% of A mer ic a n synagogues were expected to shutter during the pandemic. Few administrators knew how to apply for federal Payroll Protection Program loans and feared the worst for their synagogues. One member gave the others a crash course in applying for the loans, another taught them how to receive The Employee Retention Tax Credit. Wachstein said the synagogues saved thousands of dollars because of it. Rissinger explained that because there isn’t a specific training regiment for adminis- trators, some have backgrounds in business and facilities management, and others in social work or past leadership in their congregation. “As a group, we are incred- ibly willing to share our experiences and information,” Rissinger said. “There’s nothing gained by being tight-lipped.” Beyond career creden- tials, DVASA members represent a diversity of Jewish backgrounds. While national organizations such as the National American Association of Synagogue Executives and JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H EADLINES National Association of Temple Executives serve Conservative and Reform administrators, respectively, DVASA spans across denominations. “We haven’t heard of any other local group developing and holding force to provide this type of camaraderie,” said Robin Minkoff, executive director of Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park. She has been a DVASA member for more than two years, the entirety of her tenure at Beth Sholom. Ji l l C ooper, DVASA’s past president and executive director of Beth David Reform Congregation in Gladwyne for the past 14 years, believes that it’s DVASA’s commitment and connection to one another that sets them apart. “We hold each other up, and we laugh, and we kibitz and we make fun of each other,” Cooper said. Working up to 80 hours a week, Wachstein, who until recently was the execu- tive director of Temple Siani in Dresher before moving to Baltimore, was exhausted. One day, he remembers being too tired to speak. By the end of the day, he had received texts, calls and emails from DVASA members, all saying they were there if he needed them. “I don’t think any of us would have gotten through any of this without each other,” Cooper said. Aft er running a synagogue with closed doors for so long, Wachstein, with the help of DVASA, is fi nally fi guring out how to open them. Last week, congregants at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore, the synagogue at which Wachstein is newly executive director, were able to attend in-person Friday night Shabbat services without having to preregister to attend. Th ere were more than 100 attendees, and Wachstein swore he “could see smiles almost through their masks.” Wachstein can breathe another sigh of relief. Between the two synagogues he worked for over the course of the pandemic, there were no workplace transmissions of COVID-19. At this point, as adminis- trators are busy planning high holiday services — online, in-person and hybrid — for this coming September, DVASA still holds meetings weekly over Zoom. But Cooper hopes that doesn’t continue for too long: She’d rather have the next meeting in person. ● srogelberg@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0741 Stein Continued from Page 9 for interfaith women and non-binary people to celebrate traditions and spirituality, and reclaimed her title of rabbi that she denounced aft er leaving her Orthodox community. She is working on a cookbook, another memoir and a televi- sion show. Stein no longer sees her Judaism and queerness in contention with one another, and in her talk, which coincided with the fi rst days of LGBT Pride Month, she wanted to make sure others did not see that way, either. “Being Jewish makes me a better person and a better queer person; being queer makes me a better person and a better Jewish person,” she said. “And that is something that is worthy of celebration.” ● relationship to being male, female, both or neither. Despite the textual evidence, Stein doesn’t believe she should have to use them to prove her existence as a trans woman: “I don’t think we need religious texts to justify who we are. I don’t like that. We need to learn to accept people because of who they are, because that’s the right thing to do.” In 2016, Stein celebrated her bat mitzvah and naming ceremony at Romemu Synagogue in New York. She showed her audience a portion of the event via a grainy video clip. Aft er the rabbi announces her name, Stein is nearly swallowed by congre- gants and clergy singing and dancing around her, rejoicing. Since then, Stein helped srogelberg@jewishexponent.com; found Sacred Space, a forum 215-832-0741 Dinner and Beer Pairing for Father’s Day! Presented by Our Culinary Team, Louis Schoener, Patty Walton and Quetta Gadsden Welcome back for our second installment of our live cooking tutorials! Our Mother’s Day event was such a success that we decided to do another in honor of Father’s Day! 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Upon graduation, he played one season for Maccabi Tel Aviv and obtained Israeli citizenship. A native of suburban Chicago, Scheyer has a Jewish father and had a bar mitzvah. Science Adviser Takes Oath on 500-year-old Jewish Text When Eric Lander was sworn in June 2 as the White House’s science adviser, he did so on a 1492 version of Pirkei Avot — Ethics of the Fathers, a Jewish text of moral precepts, JTA reported. Lander, who is the fi rst-ever Cabinet-level science adviser, told Vice President Kamala Harris at the ceremony that the volume from the Library of Congress refl ected his Jewish and professional values. “Th e world has experimented with intolerance, with the view that everybody has to think like I think, worship like I worship,” Lander told Religion News Service. “(But) the world experi- mented in 1492 with tolerance — with the idea that we would have a diversity of people and perspectives. I think the lessons of the 1492 era are lessons for today.” Lander is a geneticist who took leave from positions at both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. French Holocaust Denier Receives Five-Year Sentence for Making Death Threats to Prominent Jews A French court sentenced a blogger who posted videos of himself calling for prominent Jews to be murdered to fi ve years in prison, JTA reported. Th e tribunal of Cusset, a town near Vichy, handed down its guilty verdict and sentence on June 3 to Ahmed Moualek, 53. He posted death threats against Gilles William Golnadel and Alain Jakubowitz, two Jewish lawyers, and also journalist Elisabeth Levy, La Montagne reported. Moualek is a former associate of Dieudonné M’bala M’bala and Alain Soral, Holocaust deniers who founded the now-defunct Anti-Zionist Party a decade ago. He was among the party’s founders. Hebrew Israelite High School Football Player Forced to Eat Pepperoni Pizza as Punishment A Canton, Ohio, high school football coach and seven staff ers were suspended aft er they punished a kosher Hebrew Israelite student-ath- lete by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza, JTA reported. Th e McKinley High School student was being disciplined for missing a weight lift ing session on May 20. Coach Wattley Marcus and staff members presented the student, 17, with the pizza four days later. “Th ey order him to go into the gym. He sits in a chair,” Edward L. Gilbert, an attorney for the boy’s family, told Cleveland 19 News. “Th ere is a pizza box on the fl oor. He picks up the pizza — they tell him he has to, as punishment, eat that whole pizza.” Gilbert said the coaching staff knew of the student’s religious practices, which preclude him from eating pork. Th e school district issued a statement saying it was investigating the incident. ● — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines ISRAELBRIEFS Bridge to Temple Mount in Danger of Collapse THE MAKESHIFT WOODEN BRIDGE leading from the Western Wall compound to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City is in danger of collapsing, The Times of Israel reported. The Mughrabi Bridge leading to the Mughrabi Gate was built 15 years ago as a temporary replacement for an earthen ramp, then in danger of collapsing. Engineer Ofer Cohen wrote to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation that, after examining the bridge, he noticed the wood is “in a state of extreme dryness and has many longitudinal cracks.” He called for the bridge’s replacement. But the Times said building in that area might inflame tensions with both the Palestinians and Jordan, who would consider it a provocation against Muslims. The Temple Mount plaza houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque, considered the third-holiest site in Islam. Jordan and the Palestinian leadership don’t recognize the site as holy to Jews, even though the first and second Jewish Temples once stood there. Hadassah near Jerusalem for several hours until firefighters gained control over the fire. Residents were allowed back into their homes later in the day. Thirty-five firefighting teams and 10 firefighting aircrafts worked to extinguish the blaze; there were concerns that forecasted strong winds could spread the fire further. That same day, a large fire broke out in southern Israel in a factory and warehouse near Be’er Tuvia, The Jerusalem Post reported. The complex makes and stores plastic goods. The fire was contained and prevented from spreading to other facilities nearby. Honduras Opens Jerusalem Embassy Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández announced on June 3 that the country will open an embassy in Jerusalem after years of operating in Tel Aviv, The Times of Israel reported. Hernández said the move “will empower us on the agricultural side, in the field of innovation and in the field of tourism.” The nation already has opened a commercial office in Jerusalem; that breaks its long-held neutrality policy in the Israeli-Palestinian Wildfire Breaks Out Near Jerusalem A large wildfire broke out in Israel on June 4, The conflict. Israel plans to open a diplomatic office in Honduras’ Times of Israel reported. About 400 families were evacuated from Tzur capital city of Tegucigalpa. It opened a temporary office there in August. In February, Honduras, which had difficulty in securing COVID-19 vaccines, obtained 5,000 Moderna shots that Israel donated. IDF Breaks Up Smuggling Operation, Hezbollah Involvement Suspected Israel Defense Forces foiled a firearms and hashish smuggling operation on June 2 and said the Hezbollah terrorist organization might be involved, The Times of Israel reported. Security forces arrested an Arab Israeli father and son from Jadeidi-Makr in northern Israel in possession of 15 handguns, dozens of ammunition magazines and 80 pounds of hashish. The IDF said the contraband was worth about $616,000. A solider operating a surveillance camera spotted the smuggling attempt by the son, who was carrying bags with the weapons and hashish. His father was found in a nearby car. The IDF said it believed at least some of the pistols were meant for Hezbollah-orchestrated terrorist attacks, but didn’t elaborate on how that conclusion was reached. Hezbollah is known for funding itself via drug sales. l — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb “I love it here! I couldn’t have made a better choice.” –Beverly B., a community resident At Ann’s Choice and Maris Grove, you’re free to live the independent life you want with an added safety net of support. 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On June 16, Holtzman will deliver the 2021 Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture on the Meaning of Freedom, an annual address held at Gratz College. Holtzman’s speech, titled “Nazi War Criminals in America: The Historic Forty- plus Year Effort to Bring Them to Justice,” will cover the legal and moral questions that vexed her and those who joined her initially lonely effort to identify and deport Nazi war criminals. The event is free and will be presented online. Holtzman, counsel and co-chair of the government relations group at Herrick, Feinstein LLP, worked in the administration of John V. Lindsay, a former congressman and New York City mayor, before she ran for Congress in 1972. Holtzman upset 50-year incumbent Emanuel Celler to become, at 31, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. That record held until 2014. L ater i n her c a reer, Holtzman, a Democrat, would spend eight years as district attorney of Kings County, the first woman to be elected DA in New York City. She was the first and only woman to be elected comptroller of New York City, ran for Senate on several occasions and served on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. A 2020 article in Tablet recounted the beginning of Holtzman’s political career: “She used her new office to ask ‘unpopular questions’ of those in power, probing the legality of military action in Cambodia ordered by President Richard Nixon and criticizing his deflective use of executive privilege. Sitting on the Judiciary Committee, she played a significant, public role in Nixon’s impeachment.” In 1973, a man approached Holtzman with a tip. The INS, he said, kept a list of Nazi war criminals living in the country, a list that they were content to keep and do little else with. To this day, Holtzman said, she doesn’t know why she was the one who the man approached with that explosive piece of information. “I mean, I was one of 535 members of the House and Senate,” Holtzman said. Incensed, but unsure of what to do with what she’d been told, Holtzman didn’t move on the information until later that year when two articles in The New York Times corroborated the man’s story, according to Tablet. The following April, during a congressional hearing involving INS commissioner Leonard F. Chapman Jr., Holtzman asked him flat-out: Was there a list of Nazi war criminals in the U.S.? He answered yes. “I said, ‘OK. I want to see the files,’” Holtzman recalled. “I didn’t take their word for an end. That was just the beginning.” T h e f o l l o w i n g M a y, Holtzman held a press confer- ence excoriating the laxity of the INS, and called for a task force to be created with the purpose of expelling Nazi war criminals in the U.S., with the goal of seeing them stand trial Elizabeth Holtzman for war crimes. At first, it was a lonely fight; people simply could not believe that the government had allowed such a thing to happen, Holtzman said. But as her fight grew in prominence, many were willing to lend Holtzman their swords in order to slay the “bureaucratic dragons” that had slowed her down. It wasn’t until 1978, five years AKILADELPHIA CREATIVE CONTRACTING, LLC CUSTOM BUILDING GENERAL CONTRACTING LICENSED & INSURED 215.589.5405// AKILADELPHIA.COM RESIDENTIAL KITCHEN & BATH SPECIALISTS A PORTION OF TOTAL CONTRACT PRICE WILL BENEFIT JEWISH CHARITY OF CLIENT’S CHOICE SENIOR DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE 14 JUNE 10, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT Courtesy of Herrick, Feinstein LLP after the initial disclosure of the list, that Holtzman was able to form a Special Litigation Unit. The Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, passed that year, “provided additional grounds for deportation and exclusion for individuals who collaborated with the Nazi government,” according to lawyer Talia Zikel Lissner. Her work was far from over, as Holtzman knew. The legal process of identifying, trying and deporting Nazi war criminals was a decades-long project. It would eventually outlast her career as an elected official; just last year, a former concentration camp guard named Friedrich Karl Berger was deported from Tennessee, an action made possible by the Holtzman Amendment. “I’m not someone who gives up,” Holtzman said. “I didn’t know what was going to happen. All I know is that I had to keep fighting and pushing and prodding and cajoling and persuading.” l jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM F TAY-SACHS R F R E E E E H eadlines Fears Continued from Page 1 retracted, but the story remains posted without a correction. FOX 29 did not respond to a request for comment. The affair tells a story about the current climate around antisemitism, one that Anti-Defamation League Philadelphia Regional Director Shira Goodman said is emblematic of the “whisper- down-the-lane” problems that can be created by social media furor. “There’s clearly a heightened sense of anxiety and fear right now,” Goodman said. According to the police report cited in the article, a Jewish woman was walking in the area of 21st and Sansom streets on May 28 when she was approached by “three Middle Eastern males dressed as Orthodox Jewish men.” They greeted the woman by wishing her Shabbat Shalom, a greeting that she returned. “When the complainant returned the greeting, the males stopped and said ‘Oh, you’re Jewish,’” the report reads. They began to ask her if she “had Shabbat candles for them.” The woman walked away as the men continued to speak to her. She then ran into a nail salon and called the Philadelphia Police Department, who noted her claims that the offenders were “3 Middle Eastern males, 20s, dressed in all black Orthodox Jewish attire.” On May 30, the woman issued a statement from her Instagram account, which was once again posted by the StopAntisemitism.org Twitter account. The three men, she’d been made aware, had actually been Jewish, not non-Jews dressed up as Orthodox Jewish men. According to several people familiar with the situa- tion, they were local yeshiva students whose weekly Shabbat afternoon rounds frequently take them to the area where JEWISHEXPONENT.COM & & TAY-SACHS CANAVAN CANAVAN SCREENING SCREENING we sound the alarm about antisemitism,” she wrote. “If they cannot, then we will have fewer allies and tools to fight anti-Jewish hate, which will CALL (215) 887-0877 FOR DETAILS only lead to more fear and refresh the vicious cycle.” e-mail: ntsad@aol.com; Yehudah Mirsky, a visit: www.tay-sachs.org ■ professor of Near Eastern and Screening for other Judaic studies as well as Israel Jewish Genetic Diseases studies at Brandeis University, also available. said that Jewish people play a This message is sponsored by a friend of complicated symbolic role for Americans of vastly different political ideologies. During a volatile period, it can be diffi- Nat’l Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association of Delaware Valley cult to quickly and accurately identify which of their expres- to create an environment sions are indeed antisemitic. “Antisemitism is clearly a where paranoia and anxiety more salient force in American regarding antisemitism reign. People are “very not used to society than we’ve seen in a Yehudah Mirsky, a professor at Brandeis University Courtesy of Yehudah Mirsky long time,” Mirsky said. The it and that’s why, understand- widespread proliferation of ably, it’s very, very rattling,” conspiracy theories, hitched to Mirsky said. l the incident occurred. they have been in recent weeks, the incentive structure of social “With the massive rise in easily sharable, unverified media — share-ability and jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; antisemitism happening in reports of antisemitism can incendiary content — combine 215-832-0740 America these past few weeks, spread quickly on social media, my body and mind understand- regardless of their veracity. ably went into fight vs. flight Goodman cited an October mode as I, along with many 2020 incident where three others, have been traumati- Orthodox Jewish men at a Black cally affected by current events Lives Matter rally appeared in the Jewish community,” to have been harassed in an the woman’s statement read. antisemitic fashion by BLM Exclusive Women’s Apparel Boutique “Word of advice,” she added. protesters. 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Vigilance and Fearlessness, But preliminary data page 16), Goodman expanded (215)953-8820 represents reports of antise- on the danger of such reports. mitic incidents that have not “Law enforcement, govern- Consult with the designer to yet been verified, or at the very ment agencies, civil rights explore your style options least, properly understood. organizations and community When tensions are high, as leaders must trust us when Made in USA JEWISH EXPONENT JUNE 10, 2021 15 O pinion Eshel’s Welcoming Shuls Project BY SAUNDRA STERLING EPSTEIN ESHEL WAS FOUNDED in 2010 by Co-directors Miryam Kabakov and Rabbi Steve Greenberg more than a decade ago as a support, education and advocacy organization, working to create community and acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews and their families in Orthodox communities. We provide resources and sensitively and respectfully help open the doors of Orthodox congregations, schools, summer camps and youth groups, and are dedicated to supporting and validating LGBTQ-observant Jews and providing them a place in the communities they love. With a generous grant from the Carpenter Foundation, Eshel has been continuing and growing its Welcoming Shuls Project to assess levels of inclusion that already exist in the Orthodox community and to expand and facilitate greater expressions of welcome. In employing a non-judgmental process, inter- viewing religious leaders about their experiences and helping to clarify for them the needs of LGBTQ Jews, we have learned about the challenges posed by an apathy that may destabilize norms. Many of the conversa- tions have generated a powerful mutual trust and shown incred- ible growth during the five years of this project. We have also expanded to include reaching out to camps, schools, youth groups and year programs in Israel and have been able to identify welcoming communities that have all of these resources. The Greater Philadelphia area is at the top of this list. Our growing confiden- tial database is available to help observant LGBTQ Jews to choose more welcoming communities. Our Greater Philadelphia Area includes 18 shuls/community spaces, schools, camps, medical and social support systems and everything one would need to live a meaningful and obser- vant Jewish life. The database is not public, as discretion is often preferred both by those seeking communities and our interviewed rabbis. Specific information is shared on an as-needed basis so that the data on a particular city, community, synagogue or rabbi can be available to help people navigate life choices. Increasingly, we have found allies who would also like to become active participants in these welcoming communities. To date, we have conducted 208 interviews and identified communities in 31 states in the United States and four provinces in Canada, as well as others throughout Israel. The rabbis who have responded to our survey repre- sent a wide range of rabbinic training institutes, from modern to centrist to more right-leaning Orthodox insti- tutions. Of our communities, including those that are highly welcoming and others that are welcoming with some caveats: 1. 100% said LGBTQ people deserve to be valued and treated with respect; 2. 97% are aware of at least one member of their congrega- tion or children of members who are LGBTQ; 3. 90% said that they had at some point been personally involved with families who had LGBTQ members; 4. 93% said they would advocate for children and teens who came out so they would be able to continue in their schools, camps or youth groups; 5. 90% said that the life cycle events of children with LGBTQ parents could be celebrated in their shuls; and 6. 95% said that gay men receive aliyot and participate as leaders in the service, while many indicated that there are LGBTQ members active in their community leadership. Just over 50% of the rabbis described their shul commu- nity as somewhat more relaxed, less judgmental than most other Orthodox communities. These are “big tent” Orthodox communities with a diverse membership body, whose focus on outreach and being welcoming is geared to attract those on a spiritual journey but who may not be ready to adopt full halachic comportment. In these environments, it can be easier for an Orthodox commu- nity to be more accommodating of differences in a general sense, including differences as related to LGBTQ matters. While many of these shuls and communities do have same sex/gender couples, transgender and non-binary members and are able to negotiate how their space works for them, these are the two main challenges to our cause in the greater Orthodox community. Even so, it is clear that so much has changed in our five-plus years of this work and that more and more Orthodox shuls, schools, camps and communities are addressing the challenges that occur at the intersection of halachah and sexuality/gender identity. As this is a matter of ensuring the wellbeing of our commu- nity members and that an increasing number of individ- uals have people in their lives who are LGBTQ, we know that these conversations are now occurring with regularity in the Orthodox world. And that alone is a positive development. l Saundra Sterling Epstein is director of Eshel’s Welcoming Shuls Project. Contact her at shulisrose@aol.com for more information on Eshel, the Welcoming Shuls Project and how to have your rabbi and shul interviewed or contact a community. Combating Surging Antisemitism Demands Both Vigilance and Fearlessness President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This was a bold asser- tion: America was in the throes of the Great Depression, which sent millions of Americans into destitution and suffering. Yet Roosevelt knew that the economic crisis was a problem that Americans could solve if they remained resolute, strong BY SHIRA GOODMAN AND and united. He understood that JEREMY BANNETT the biggest threat to America was not the Depression itself, EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS ago, but the division, extremism 16 JUNE 10, 2021 and inertia that would come from our nation succumbing to fear and anxiety. Today, as Jews around the world are buffeted by a wave of vicious antisemi- tism, Roosevelt’s words hold important lessons. Fear is not the only thing we have to be afraid of, but fear exacerbates the problems we are confronting. American Jews can defeat this surge in anti-Jewish hate as we have before, but only if we stay focused, vigilant and JEWISH EXPONENT undivided — and if we do not give in to fear. Let us be clear: Jews around the world are facing a very real spike in antisemitism. During the two weeks of the recent military conflict between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reported to ADL increased by 75% compared to the two weeks before the fighting began. Incidents included vicious assaults on Jews in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere, people harassed on the street with calls of “Death to the Jews” and the promotion of antisemitic rhetoric, images and conspiracy theories at rallies, including in Philadelphia. Since May 16, there have been more than 200 rallies protesting Israel, an unprec- edented number, and while many did not include antise- mitic language, much of the spike in antisemitic incidents can be traced to individuals attending these events. Jews found no safe haven online, where extremists across the ideological spectrum tried JEWISHEXPONENT.COM O pinion to take advantage of the conflict to mainstream their antisemitism. Anti-Jewish hate ballooned on sites like 4chan, long a cesspool of hate, but also on mainstream platforms like Twitter, which hosted over 17,000 Tweets promoting some iteration of the phrase “Hitler was Right” during the first week of the conflict. Placing this recent surge in the context of record-breaking numbers of antisemitic incidents over the last few years, it will come as no surprise to learn that American Jews are deeply concerned. A recent survey better of us. Fear clouds our judgment, reduces our credi- bility, divides us and fuels a vicious cycle that undermines our ability to effectively counter anti-Jewish hate. Fear has played a central role in the uptick in unfounded antisemitic incident reports that have circulated around the region and across the nation in recent weeks. Fear has led some to misinterpret their interactions with strangers as antisemitic incidents. Because our lives are entwined with social media, our first reaction is often to post about an incident so that others Jews Always Speak Up for Everyone Else. Now’s the Time to Stand Up for Ourselves BY ELISHA WIESEL If we want to defeat antisemitism, we cannot allow fear to get the better of us. Fear clouds our judgment, reduces our credibility, divides us and fuels a vicious cycle that undermines our ability to effectively counter anti-Jewish hate. found that 59% of American Jews feel less safe today than they did just five years ago. Nearly a third of Jews have changed their behaviors out of fears of antisemitism, including avoiding Jewish institutions and events, refraining from wearing Jewish clothing or symbols and not identifying themselves as Jewish on social media. Thirty-three percent of Jews report trouble sleeping because of antisem- itism, with smaller but still significant numbers reporting negative financial and psycho- logical impacts from antisemitic harassment. Indeed, these are frightening times, and many Jews under- standably feel afraid. But if we want to defeat antisemitism, we cannot allow fear to get the know and can share our experi- ences. This impulse, though well-intentioned, has fueled the widespread dissemination of unsubstantiated allegations of antisemitism, increasing levels of anxiety in the Jewish commu- nity. It has caused infighting and increased tensions and strained the community’s credibility with critical partners. Unfounded reports of antisemitism are a serious concern for the Jewish commu- nity. Our ability to swiftly and seriously respond to antisemitic incidents relies on relation- ships and reputation, which are jeopardized by unfounded reports. Law enforcement, government agencies, civil rights organizations and community leaders must trust us when we See Goodman/Bannett, Page 27 STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER We are a diverse community. The views expressed in the signed opinion columns and letters to the editor published in the Jewish Exponent are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the officers and boards of the Jewish Publishing Group, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia or the Jewish Exponent. Send letters to letters@jewishexponent.com or fax to 215-569-3389. Letters should be a maximum of 200 words and may be edited for clarity and brevity. Unsigned letters will not be published. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM IN THE 1960S, the Communist Party cut the Russian Jews off from the Jewish people. They prohibited them from wearing tefillin or celebrating b’nai mitzvah or expressing support for the state of Israel. They intimidated and imprisoned them. And the Communist Party governed with one big antisemitic lie: The Jews are the enemy of the workers. When my father, Elie Wiesel, visited, the Russian dissidents would ask him eagerly: How many in America are marching for us? And my father would be too ashamed to tell them how few there were. He wrote a book about it called “The Jews of Silence.” Many thought he was referring to the Soviet Jews, who had to study our sacred texts in hushed secrecy. But he was referring to us: the American Jews who refused to speak up for their Jewish brethren across oceans and borders. Today, we are still victims of a terrible antisemitic lie, one that well-intentioned progres- sives who care about justice have too often swallowed. This big lie seeks to turn the fire of the racial justice movement against its earliest supporters: The Jews are white, the Palestinians are Black. The inconvenient truth for our haters is that the Jewish JEWISH EXPONENT people are not the enemy of the workers. Or of people of color. Or of social justice. And that the modern Jewish nation has sought peace with her Arab neighbors since before she was created in 1948. The truth is that when half of our number finally governed themselves once again in their ancestral homeland of Israel, they built the socialized health care system that Sen. Bernie Sanders dreams of. The sons and daughters of the Ethiopian Jewish community, airlifted out of Africa by Israel in the 1980s, are reaching the Knesset and the Eurovision stage. LGBTQ Arabs can follow their hearts and their faith freely in Israel, and an Arab political party may yet be the kingmaker in this year’s elections. The truth is that Hamas endangers civilians — Palestinian and Israeli — just to feed hatred. Their goal is the total eradication of the state of Israel. And now, once again, too many of us have shamefully become the Jews of Silence. We have spoken up for every cause but our own. It is time to shed our silence and speak with a loud voice. If you have been silent because you feel Israel can take care of itself, think again. Your voice matters. Just weeks ago, Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israeli popula- tion centers with the express intent of maximizing civilian deaths. Iron Dome is why there aren’t thousands of murdered Jews. Some in Congress are clamoring for the United States to defund it. If you have been silent because you feel Israel can never have security without peace, then commit yourself to peace. And while you build this critical common ground with our Palestinian cousins, speak up for Israel, which has given up land in the name of peace, most recently with disastrous consequences in Gaza. If you have been silent because “antisemitism could never happen here,” then take a look around. It is no longer just the Lubavitch asking, “Are you Jewish?” to help you do a mitzvah. Roving gangs of anti-Israel demonstrators in New York and Los Angeles are asking the same question. They brandish knives. They throw fists, bottles and hateful words. And if you have been silent because you felt you stood alone, I promise you that you are not alone. Over 30 years ago, my father and other leaders of the Jewish commu- nity convened a quarter of a million of us and our allies in Washington, D.C., to show solidarity with Soviet Jewry on Freedom Sunday. It is now our generation’s turn to speak our truth: Neither the millions of us here in the United States nor our Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel are going anywhere. We will not bow to terror. At the height of this most recent conflict, President Biden defended the dream of a two-state solution and directly spoke against the hatred at the core of the Hamas charter, saying, “Until the region says unequiv- ocally that they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace.” I am grateful to President Biden for standing with the Jewish people. Now it is our turn. Let’s end our silence and join him. l Elisha Wiesel is the son of Marion and Elie Wiesel. JUNE 10, 2021 17 COMMUNITY NEWS The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to address the communities’ most critical priorities locally, in Israel and around the world. StudioLabs: How Israeli Teens are Shaping Their World Through Technology STUDENTS AT THE DAAT SCHOOL in Otef Azza, Israel, have faced a radical year with unprecedented challenges. Not only must they deal with the day-to-day stress of living through a global pandemic, but also their close proximity to the Gaza Strip means living and learning in a war-torn environment — such as the most recent confl ict between Hamas and Israel. Yitzhak Shlomi, principal at the Daat School, recently had an English class create a “resilience dome,” where students can escape their harsh realities by producing live events and inter- active content using novel soft ware and hardware. “Th e resilience dome can build and empower you, and that is helpful when times get diffi cult,” said Aviv, whose last A group of students from Daat School in Otef Azza, A student from Daat School in Otef Azza, Israel, name was omitted for anonymity, a 14-year old participant. “It helps build the resilience dome’s physical structure. Israel, take a break from working in the resilience changed the way I see myself and helped me learn that I can do dome to pose for a photo. Courtesy of StudioLabs things that I didn’t know I could do.” Th e resilience dome is part of a larger Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia-funded Israeli initiative known as StudioLabs. StudioLabs is might not have otherwise known. Defying traditional perceptions of farming, a traveling program, tailored for young teens to identify critical problems within the experience revealed that there is an academic side, a food science side and a their local communities and work with teachers and facilitators to address them marketing side to the industry. through technology and storytelling. StudioLabs is open to all youth, but the real power within its mission is how it Th ese projects take place in the local Jewish Federation’s partnership regions transforms and empowers the girls in the region. Women, particularly those who of Netivot and Sdot Negev. Th e idea is to make learning experiential instead are religious, living in the Sdot Negev and Netivot generally have limited options of passive and to focus the process on real-life problems. Th rough StudioLabs, when it comes to their careers. Combating this reality, StudioLabs provides girls students explore science, technology, art, creative expression, storytelling and with a supportive environment and women mentors in science. other 21st century skills, empowering them to grow into strong leaders. In the more urban area of Netivot, a group of ninth grade girls spearheaded One of the main goals of the program is to foster strong roots or “place a StudioLab project to address the issue of food waste reduction through the attachment” to communities, so that the youth feel invested in the future of production of a digital campaign. Praised for its systematic change on a local level, their regions. By creating projects focused on unique challenges to a given area, the girls presented their campaign to government offi cials and at an international StudioLabs encourages kids to fi nd pride in their communities and view their conference for corporate social responsibility. neighborhoods with limitless potential. From strengthening identity to mobilizing change, the type of StudioLab “We introduce young teens to things happening in their community that they project is dependent on the region and the people participating. Given all of these otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to,” explained Boaz Israeli, a StudioLab facilitator. variables, one thing is certain: Wherever they take place, they function as an asset “Th is provides them with pride, a stronger sense of belonging and resilience, to the community and transform it into an incubator for innovative ideas and because it changes the way they see opportunities.” tangible solutions. During one StudioLab project in Sdot Negev, participants created an interac- “Th e fact that the Jewish Federation helps enable these projects and that so far tive media campaign to promote a solution to pest issues which were wreaking they have all taken place in our partnership regions should be a huge source of havoc on local sunfl ower farms. pride for Jewish Federation supporters,” said Tali Lidar, director of Israel and global Th is project not only created a solution for a real-life problem, but it also operations at the Jewish Federation’s Israel offi ce. “Th rough StudioLabs, supporters exposed students to the possible career paths within agriculture, which they are helping to shape young minds and the way they navigate their world.” Philadelphia Israel Experience 18 JUNE 10, 2021 Are you between the ages of 18-20 and looking for a gap program in Israel? Travel with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and Masa on a highly subsidized, once-in-a-lifetime experience. 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For Schulman and Behrend, who met as teachers at Congregation Rodeph Sholom before expanding their partner- ship, it’s a totally new experience, one born out of calamity. “The exhibition basically came about because the pandemic screwed up every- thing else,” Behrend said. “A Golem Sleeps and Wakes in the Mourning,” which opened on June 4, is a combination of new work and reconfigured set pieces from previous performances of Schulman and Behrend. The exhibit runs through July 2 and features images, objects, filmed performances and interactive spaces. On June 25 and July 2, the pair will present live perfor- mances called “Time, Collapsed” — complete with live musical From left: Logan Gabrielle Schulman and Benjamin Behrend Photos by Noah S. Thompson accompaniment, dance and puppetry — alongside public conversations with Aleida Garcia, founder of the National Homicide Justice Alliance; Roz Pichardo, founder of Save Our City Philly; and Benjamin Bass, who will perform in “Time, Collapsed” alongside Griffin Rowe. “A Golem Sleeps and Wakes in the Mourning” covers many of the same themes that Schulman and Behrend explored in their virtual play, “Welcome to the Shiva House,” produced during last year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. In that performance, audiences were made to participate in a Zoom shiva, led by Schulman and Behrend, for a fictional character named Sam Bloom. “Golem” grapples with death and Jewish death ritual in a similarly participatory way, inviting audiences to look into a mirror covered in lace and tool around with an overhead projector. Sometimes the similarities between the show and the exhibition are literal, rather than thematic: Viewers can watch clips of “Welcome to the Shiva House” while they flip through the program that accompanied it. “This is basically a retro- spective of our partnership over the past four years,” Behrend said. The exhibition, which came about after Schulman and Behrend answered an open call from OCJAC, asks viewers to think about themes like death, abandonment, gun violence, the pandemic and our respon- sibilities to each other. The names of children killed by gun violence in 2021 are written on butcher paper, rolled into the shape of a megillah; images beckoning viewers in from off the street are displayed on obsolete television screens. The Golem is a frequent touchpoint for the artists, as well. Schulman and Behrend have given audiences a lot to chew on in OCJAC’s cozy, brick-walled space. Schulman, 26, studied religion and performance at the New College of Florida before receiving training as an actor at the Stella Adler Studio for Actor Training. Their work has been presented by the Chautauqua Institution, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Arthur Ross Gallery and Vox Populi Gallery, among other institu- tions. In addition to their work as a theater artist, Schulman nurses a deep love for puppetry, which is represented in several portions of “A Golem Sleeps and Wakes in the Mourning.” Behrend, 27, a Philadelphia native and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has worked with prominent Philadelphia theater compa- nies like the Arden Theatre Co., InterAct Theatre, Theatre Exile and Act II Playhouse. Schulman and Behrend’s collaboration began in earnest in the wake of the 2018 Tree of Life shootings in Pittsburgh. As each of them struggled to understand how Jews as individuals and as communi- ties should grapple with what had happened, they looked to one another for ideas. They wrote a complicated play called “Elegy for a Lamb: A Revival,” to which the No. 1 response was confusion. With those notes in mind, they reworked it into a new play called “Now at the End, Again,” See Golem, Page 23 A simpler, more convenient lifestyle awaits at Dunwoody Village. Newly renovated one- and two-bedroom apartments are currently available, allowing you to spend less time worrying and more time living in the moment, doing the things you enjoy. Contact us today. Decidedly Different . ® Decidedly Ready. 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Graduations 2021 Dearest Samantha, Best wishes for a wonderful college experience. Love you! Congratulations to Dr. Leela S. Breitman Harvard School of Dental Medicine, class of 2021 Winner: $25,000 Harvard Innovation Challenge Award For My Dental Key LLC American College Of Prosthodontics Excellence In Prosthodontics Award Gerald Shklar Memorial Award For Excellence In Academics And Demon-Strated Talents In Fields Distinguished From Th e Sciences Congratulations, Isabella! I am so proud of you! Love you, Uncle Andrew Good luck in your next adventure as a resident in prosthodontics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill Congratulations Macy! Do your best in college next year. We all love you! Th e Desmonds, Goldbergs and Kessels 22 JUNE 10, 2021 With Love and Pride, Mom, Dad, Ilana & Ariel Mazel Tov! Daniel, We are so proud of your accomplishments. Next stop Columbia/JTS XO We all love you! Mom, Dad, Sam & Asher JEWISH EXPONENT Nastco / iStock / Getty Images Plus Bubbie & Zayda Molod JEWISHEXPONENT.COM 2021 We are so proud of our beautiful, sweet little girl. Congratulations! to Alexander (Teddy) Mazurek for receiving a doctorate in Classical Archaeology from University of Buff alo. His thesis is entitled ‘By Land and Sea: Reconstructing the Culture of Etruscan Warfare’. Dr. Mazurek teaches at St. Bonaventure University. Golem Cantor which dealt directly with the Golem, shiva, gun violence and many of the themes they would explore together again. Th ough much of “Golem” references previous theatrical work from Schulman and Behrend, the ideas they explore need not be given that context for viewers to get a sense for the questions that are being asked about death, mourning and community. Behrend hopes that audiences will walk away with a new critical eye toward “the way we express and exhibit grief, and how it succeeds and fails in our modern life.” If viewers exited “A Golem Sleeps and Wakes in the Mourning” feeling that they’d been in a place that had allowed them to mourn properly, Schulman said, “I would consider it a huge success.” ● in-person. Tilman attributes his conducting ability to his famil- iarity with the two ensemble pieces he is conducting: Louis Lewandowski’s “Halle- lujah”/”Psalm 150” and Charles Osborne’s “Samachti B’omrim Li.” With the help of a local production company, the discrete videos were trans- formed into cohesive clips that will be presented at the concert. Though they’ve had to jump through several hoops to achieve a successful presentation medium, the assembly is excited to show what it’s all about. “Cantors are capable of much more than just singing,” said Cantor Annelise Ocanto- Romo, one of the event’s organizers and cantor at Ohev Shalom. “Th is is just a part of our Jewish soul that we want to share with everyone.” Ocanto-Romo hopes that the virtual concert experience Continued from Page 20 jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Graduations Mazel Tov, Isabella! Mommy, Daddy, Bubbie, Poppy, Grandmom, Grandfather & Cherry Continued from Page 21 will give a broader audience the opportunity to experi- ence Jewish music. Though the cantors are based in different areas, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, to Bucks County, anyone can access the concert. Th e assembly has prepared for more than six months. Ocanto-Romo hopes it will be an opportunity for celebration following a challenging year for the community. But for some, the concert also will be an opportunity to honor some of the hardships endured over the past year. One assembly member, Art Katlin, is using his concert piece to pay tribute to his wife, Evette, who died from COVID-19 complications in January. Katlin will sing his wife’s setting of “Hashkiveinu,” which won an award from Shalshelet: Th e Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music in 2004. JEWISH EXPONENT “Hashkiveinu” is a prayer for protection found in the evening liturgy. “It’s as if God is sort of lift ing you up, carrying you,” Katlin said. “God is the wind beneath my wings, if you will.” He and Evette originally planned on singing the piece together. Aft er her death, the piece took on new meaning for Katlin. “Th at was the image that I had of Evette, that she was always with my family, like the wind that just went with us, carried us,” he said. Th e couple sang together for 40 years, beginning three years prior to them getting married. Th ey met at a synagogue choir. Th e loss of Evette Katlin was felt by the entire Delaware Valley cantoral community. Katlin’s tribute to his wife and the vulnerability of cantoral music is something that Tilman hopes all will feel at the concert, that the music will “open up the hearts of both the singers as the listeners.” Ocanto-Romo hopes the concert will give the audience not only a window into a cantor’s ability to make music, but also into the deeply rooted impact she believes they have on Jewish culture. “Cantors play such a pivotal role in synagogue life, but not even just in synagogue life, in the greater Jewish commu- nity,” she said. “I mean, we are part of the life cycle; we’re part of tefi llah, of prayer within the service; we’re part of our family’s intergenerational connection.” To register for the event, visit the assembly’s Facebook page for a link. Th ough admis- sion is free, there is a suggested donation of $18. ● srogelberg@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0741 JUNE 10, 2021 23 T orah P ortion Korach, Racism and Pruning the Tree of Life BY RABBI SHAI CHERRY Parshat Korach AT THE BEGINNING of each “Introduction to Judaism” class I’ve taught at college, before I even introduce myself to the students, I ask them to yell out things they know about Judaism. Since the vast majority of my students were not Jewish, much of what they knew about Judaism was from pop culture, their friends or grandparents or reading Anne Frank/Elie Wiesel in their high school history class’s Holocaust unit. After a few minutes, the lists inevitably included bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, not eating milk and meat together, Chanukah, monotheism and Manischewitz. There were a few others on the top 10 lists, but I circled those listed above in red ink and explained that none of these is biblical. Not one — even “monotheism” — gets an asterisk. Then I would introduce myself and say, “Your first lesson in ‘Introduction to Judaism’ is never to confuse the Hebrew Bible with Judaism.” When we meet Korach in this week’s parshah, he is mustering his forces to challenge Moses for leadership. CAN DL E L IGHTIN G June 11 June 18 8:12 p.m. 8:14 p.m. Here’s his charge against Moses: “You have gone too far! For all the community is holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above the Lord’s congregation?” Moses responds that the Lord will “make known who is His and who is holy.” Who is holy? According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses prevails, but the Torah is short on explanation. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to conclude, based on their dialogue, that Moses is the holy one. But don’t confuse the Hebrew Bible with Judaism! Unlike Christianity, Judaism doesn’t know of a chosen one. All humans are created in the divine image, which is the biblical idiom for the American creed that all men are created equal. Nowhere in rabbinic literature is there a claim that Moses is holier than his cousin, Korach. The rabbis categorically reject the possibility that Moses believed he was holier than Korach. The Midrash and Rashi (1040- 1105) explain the disagreement between the cousins was rooted in a misunderstanding. When Korach claimed all the community are holy, he meant, explains the Midrash, that all the community had heard God at Mount Sinai. That experience conferred upon the whole people the status of holiness regardless of behavior. The Midrash and Rashi’s Korach believed that after Sinai, holiness is essential — of the Jewish essence — while Moses believes holiness is purely functional. It’s how Rashi explains what Moses means: “The Lord will make known who is his for Levitical service and who is holy for the priesthood.” According to the Midrash and Rashi, God did not make the Israelites holy. God chose the Levites and Cohanim (priests) to serve the holy One at the sacrificial altar. Their miscommunication ended in tragedy. Korach and his gang were swallowed up in the sink hole of sedition. Subsequent commentators used Korach’s rebellion to emphasize that holiness is a behavioral goal, not a given status. But the truth is more complicated. From the Torah to today, there have been those who view Jews as essentially holier than non-Jews. This strain is particularly promi- nent in the mystical vein of Judaism that runs from the biblical Ezra (Ezra 9:2) to today’s ultra-Orthodox. Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan maintained that the idea of a holy people, a chosen people, was irredeemable. It takes too much explanation to circumvent the simple understanding of the term, and the simple meaning of being the chosen people is racist. Kaplan thought the idea of the chosen people was better off relegated to a premodern time when it may well have been a net gain to help Jews survive a world where, too often, gentiles behaved in ways that could only be described as unholy. In our times, Kaplan gave four reasons for rejecting the idea of chosen people: theolog- ical, God does not operate preferentially; psychological, it induces feelings of smug superiority among Jews; socio- logical, it prompts feelings of envy among gentiles; and political, it is undemocratic. All in all, asserted Kaplan, insisting on superiority smacks of an inferiority complex. Here’s another reason. We Jews need to model that religious ideology, as our liturgy says, is a tree of life, not petrified wood. Sometimes the tree’s branches need pruning. The Catholic Church included Jews in its circle of the saved in Vatican II. Wouldn’t it be a harbinger of the messianic days if Hamas were to change its charter and recognize the right of the Jewish people to a sovereign state in what was once Dar al-Islam, the abode of Islam? Ezra’s racism shouldn’t be confused with how modern, antiracist Jews strive to embody our Judaism today. Let’s learn from Moses and avoid the poten- tial for ugly misunderstandings. Let’s be explicit and retire the term. Pruning the trees of life lets the sunshine in. l Eddie. Herskovitz worked as an auto mechanic’s assistant while his wife, a survivor who died in 2006, worked in a sewing factory. Eventually, Herskovitz entered into a partnership that brought him part ownership of a gas station at City Avenue and Conshohocken Avenue. After 16 years, Herskovitz’s partner retired, and Herskovitz took over the entire business. He eventually expanded his business to include Main Line Auto Center, shoe stores in Philadelphia, Ardmore and Miami, and the Main Line Taxi Co. It was at one of his filling stations that Herskovitz met the woman who would eventu- ally become his second wife, Tonya (Nowlin) Herskovitz. When she pulled into the station, in from out of town for work, she heard the same heavily accented voice that she’d hear until the day Herskovitz died, and saw the same twinkly smile. “Michael was a man of many, many wonders,” she said. He “held no hatred for people,” Tonya said. “When people asked him how he could drive a [German-built] Mercedes, he would say, ‘These people that made this car didn’t hurt me. They had nothing to do with it.’” Herskovitz was predeceased by his first wife, Frida. He is survived by his wife Tonya Herskovitz; his children, Pearl (Jacky) Kouzi, Edward (Jean) Herskovitz and Mercedes Griffin; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. l Rabbi Shai Cherry is the rabbi at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park and the author of “Coherent Judaism: Constructive Theology, Creation, and Halakhah and Torah through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times.” The Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia is proud to provide diverse perspectives on Torah commentary for the Jewish Exponent. The opinions expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the Board of Rabbis. Obituary Continued from Page 4 In 1948, he joined the army of the newly formed Jewish state, using his skills as an auto mechanic that he’d learned in Canada to fight for the estab- lishment of Israel, and for its occupation of the Sinai in 1956. In 1959, he moved to Philadelphia, where his sister Helen was living. He and his first wife, Frida, settled in their own home in West Philadelphia with their children, Pearl and 24 JUNE 10, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM C ommunity / mazel tovs B I RTH E N GAG E ME N T LUCY ELAINE ROSENBERG COHEN-BAUM Nicole (née Kent) and Douglas Rosenberg of Collegeville announce the birth of their daughter, Lucy Elaine Rosenberg, on April 27. Sharing in their happiness are grandparents Lisa and Robert Kent of Claymont, Delaware, Robert Rosenberg of King of Prussia, and Julia Rosenberg and Douglas Miracle of Phoenixville. Lucy Elaine is named in loving memory of her maternal great-grandmother, Lucy D. Charles. Photo by Nicole Rosenberg Jay and Betsy Cohen of Malvern and Rabbi Shalom and Debbie Baum of New Milford, New Jersey, announce the engagement of their children, Reba Cohen and Dovid Baum. Reba is a graduate of Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy and the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. She works as a communications and marketing specialist in New York City. Dovid is a graduate of Marsha Stern Talmudic Academy in Washington Heights, New York, and the University of Maryland. He is a product designer in New York City. Reba and Dovid are planning a December wedding in New Jersey. Photo by Betsy Cohen COMMUNITYBRIEFS Buxco Teen Honored CTEEN, THE CHABAD TEEN NETWORK honored Bucks County teen Andrew Belder as one of its “8 Under 18” honorees for 2021. Honorees are CTeen leaders “who have demon- strated remarkable dedication, engagement, and leadership in their own respective CTeen communi- ties and throughout the INTL network,” according to the organization’s website. Belder, who graduated from Council Rock High School South and will attend Temple University, organized interactions between teens and Holocaust survivors, led teens on volunteer efforts for the Jewish Relief Agency and ensured that CTeen programming continued through the pandemic. 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Its vice presidents will be Rabbi Beth Janus of Jewish Music for the Mind and Soul and Rabbi Adam Zeff of Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia, while its treasurer will be Rabbi Beth Kalisch of Beth David Reform Congregation of Gladwyne. Prominent Attorney Dies in Boating Accident Attorney Andrew Stern died May 29 in a boating accident off Longport, New Jersey, law.com reported. Stern was a well-known trial attorney, particularly for his role in the Salvation Army building collapse litigation. He represented a woman trapped in the rubble after the collapse. Survivors and families of those killed received $227 million in a settlement, which was the largest in state history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. His client received $95.6 million. Stern also was the lead lawyer for victims of the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and in 2000 won a $100 million medical malpractice case. He worked for The Beasley Firm, then Kline & Specter. Earlier this year, he opened a firm called Stern & Crawford P.C. with Elizabeth Crawford. He was 60 and is survived by his wife and three children, Eric, 29; Jeff, 27; and Jen, 24, according to the Inquirer. l — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb JUNE 10, 2021 25 C ommunity / deaths DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES A D I N I Dr. Uziel (Uzi) Adini, age 83, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on May 27, 2021 after a long battle with Leukemia. Uzi was born on June 23, 1937 to Leah and Yisrael Adini in pre-state Israel. He was raised in Tel-Aviv. He served as a sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces in the heavy artillery unit. In 1962, he married Tamar Löw, and together they had two daughters, Ronit and Tali. Uzi earned a B.A. and an M.A. degree in the complement- ary fields of Bible, Hebrew Literature and Education, at the Hebrew University of Jerus- alem. He earned his Ed.D degree at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, PA. Uzi was one of the most renowned authorities on Jewish Education in the United States. Following 23 years as the Director of the Jewish Com- munity High School of Gratz College, he served as Vice President and then as a Pro- fessor of Education and Literature at Gratz College. An inspirational teacher, Dr. Adini had a profound impact on generations of stu- dents who remember him with affection and respect. Beyond his professional achieve- ments, Uzi earned a well-justified reputation as a person of empathy, humor, warmth, and stirring intellect. He was beloved as a col- league, mentor, teacher, friend, spouse, fath- er and grandfather. We will all miss his viva- cious personality, amazing story telling and generous smile. Uzi is survived by his wife Tamar, daughters Ronit (Jeff) and Tali (Yoni), and granddaughters Shira, Arielle, Ilana and Amalia; and his brother Ami Adini. Donations in Uziel Adini’s memory can be sent to the Fox Chase Cancer Center. B A NG I S Priscilla (nee Tripler) Bangis died on May 30th, 2021. Wife of the late Asher Kaufman, the late Harry Zanan, and the late Irving Ban- gis. She is survived by her loving Family: An- drea and Harvey Berman and Jeffery and Susan Kaufman; Grandchildren Daniel Kauf- man and Marion Boas, Amy and Greg Gross- man, and Heather Berman; and Great grand- mother of Asher Kaufman. Her memory is an inspiration for all of us and she was loved by all who knew her. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at Roosevelt Me- morial Park chapel and followed by inter- ment. Contributions in her memory may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com B E L L E R Shirley Beller (nee Schnall), passed away on May 31, 2021. Wife of the late Mortimer. Mother of Rabbi Yisroel (Yocheved) Beller and the late Sharon Sternberg. Sister of Nath- an Schnall. Grandmother of Julie (Steven) Bornfreund, Milka Baila (Ezra) Massre, Mindy (Matthew) Fingerman, Meir (Shevie) Beller and Yaakov Yitzchok (Nomi) Beller and Great Grandmother of 11. Sister-in-law of Frances Schnall. Contributions in her memory may be made to Hadassah, www.hadassah.org, or a charity of the donor’s choice. GOLDSTEINS’ ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com C O H E N Edmond F. Cohen, age 91, on May 28th, 2021. Loving husband of Ellen R. Cohen (nee Kerpen); adoring father of Susan (Ken) Segal and Nancy Cohen. Brother of David (Connie) Cohen. Grandfather of Sarah and David. Ed, a long-time advertising exec and copywriter, opened his agency AC&N in 1969, and handled both local and international ac- counts for over seven decades. Contribu- tions in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society www.cancer.org. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com G R E E N Marilyn Sue (née Shapiro) Green of Parkland,Fl (formally of Philadelphia), passed away on April 22, 2021. She is survived by her beloved husband Leonard, loving mother of Sherri Green and Melissa Luboff (Alan). Extremely proud and loving Mom-mom of Austin, Amber, Alexa and Hunter Luboff. Be- loved aunt of Linda Fox (Scott) and Mitchell Shapiro (Christine). Marilyn was the daugh- ter of the late Anna and Abraham Shapiro. Loving sister of the late Edwin Shapiro (Rita), the late Harold Shapiro and the late Marvin Shapiro (Elaine). Marilyn was born in Phil- adelphia where she had her own party plan- ning business which she continued when she relocated to Florida. Contributions in her memory may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. Arrangements were by Beth Israel Memorial Chapel Delray Beach, FL. A Community Remembers Monthly archives of Jewish Exponent Death Notices are available online. www.JewishExponent.com L O W E N T H A L H E C K L I N Shirley Ruth Hecklin (nee Goldberg) passed away on May 27, 2021 after a courageous three-month battle with COVID-19 that showed all of us her tremendous inner strength and determination. Shirley was born December 31, 1936 to Abraham Jacob Gold- berg and Alice Goldberg (nee Whiser) in New Orleans. She grew up and attended Fortier High School and Louisiana State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. She met her future husband, Oscar Bernard (O.B) Hecklin, on a blind date; he was doing his orthopaedic residency in New Orleans. They were married in 1962 and moved to Wyncote, outside of Philadelphia, where O. B. joined a thriving orthopaedic practice as a surgeon. Shirley was prede- ceased by her husband O.B. in 1991, and by her son Lawrence (Larry) Evan (Mindi) earli- er this year. She is survived by her daughter Brenda Suzanne and her brother Myron Saul Goldberg (Marcie). She treasured her two grandsons, Jacob Andrew Hecklin and Joshua David Hecklin. Shirley had an enga- ging, warm smile and always a kind word. She was proud of her Southern Jewish roots. She loved when her drawl was recognized and acknowledged and enjoyed her grits as a girl raised in the South. Shirley's musical tal- ent brought joy to her family, friends and community. She performed piano for many years and was a beloved teacher. She was known to accompany her daughter Brenda, a classically trained singer, at home and at out- side events. She is now an angel in heaven watching over us, in the arms of her beloved husband, O.B., and reunited with her son, Larry. She will be missed forever-and always in our hearts. Contributions in Shirley's memory may be made to the Juvenile Dia- betes Research Foundation, 555 Croton Road, Ste. 1111, King of Prussia, PA 19406, www.jdrf.org or Magen David Adom, www.afmda.org, or to a charity of the donor's choice. B R O D E R Monthly archives of Jewish Exponent Death Notices are available online. www.JewishExponent.com TO PLACE A MEMORIAL AD CALL 215.832.0749 CALL 215-832-0749 TO PLACE YOUR YAHRTZEIT AD. classified@ jewishexponent.com www.JewishExponent.com JUNE 10, 2021 P A R R I S A Community Remembers Honor the memory of your loved one … Robert M. Broder, Esq. on May 30, 2021. Be- loved husband of Linda (nee Harris); Loving father of Melissa Broder (Nicholas Poluhoff) and Hayley Broder (Sean Jusko); Dear broth- er of Etta Rosenberg (Gary Polin); Adoring grandfather of Sage. Robert was a partner at Blank Rome and taught at Temple Law School for 25 years. Contributions in his memory may be made to Mont. Co. SPCA, 19 E. Ridge Pk, Conshohocken, PA 19428 or charity of the donor’s choice. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com 26 H E R S K O V I T Z Michael Herskovitz on May 30, 2021. Mi- chael was born in a small village in Botfalva, Czechoslovakia in 1929. As a teenager he survived two years in the worst Nazi concen- tration camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen. Prior to immigrating to the United States in 1959 he lived for ten years in Israel. Michael fought in the 1948 war of In- dependence and the 1956 Sinai War. Over the past 30+ years Michael has been an educator on the Holocaust to students throughout the US and internationally. Beloved husband of Tonya (nee Nowlin) and the late Frida (nee Weig); Loving father of Pearl (Jacky) Kouzi, Edward (Jean) Herskovitz and Mercedes Griffin; Devoted grandfather of Jennifer, Avi, Michelle and Steven; Adoring great-grand- father of Noah, Talia, Evan, Ariela, Gabrielle and Michael. Contributions in his memory may be made to Adath Israel Youth Fund, 250 N. Highland Ave., Merion Station, PA 19066 or Holocaust Awareness Museum, 8339 Old York Road Suites 203/205 Elkins Park, PA 19027. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com JEWISH EXPONENT Dr. Judith Lowenthal (nee Nelson), June 1, 2021, of Elkins Park, PA; Psychologist for more than 45 years, wise teacher and loyal friend who touched the hearts of thousands of people. Beloved wife of Alan Morgenstein; loving mother of Jessica Lowenthal (Bonita Cales), Eric Morgenstein and Ariel Morgen- stein; devoted sister to Robert Nelson; cher- ished grandmother of Eli, Asher and Parker. Contributions in Judy's memory may be made to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com Thelma (Tamy) Parris (nee Kramer) on May 29, 2021. Beloved wife of the late Anthony; and the late Stuart Rubin. Loving mother of Ilene Silver (Larry) Berman, Connie (Steven) Berger, Donna (Richard) Solomon, Steven (Susan) Parris and Gary (Belle Scarpignato) Parris; Devoted grandmother of Jessica (Far- rell), Shelby (David), Justin, Scott (Sarah), Daniel (Rachel), Joey (Jamie), Samantha, Kenneth, Laurie (Craig) Jaimie (Jeff), Danny and Jenna (Patrick); Adoring great-grand- mother of Avery, Lola, Charlie, Miller, Carsyn, Lewis, Jerry, Dylan, Jordan, Sienna, Allison, Ethan ,Jordan, and Taylor. Adoring sister of Jackie (Allan) Cheiken, and Howard ( Cindy ) Kramer. Mother-in-law of the late Lewis P. Silver and Andrea Parris. Contributions in her memory may be made to Trustbridge Hos- pice Foundation, 5300 East Ave., West Palm Bch, FL 33407. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com R O S EN T H A L Dorothy Rosenthal, 96, died June 2, 2021 in Houston, TX of complications from a fall. She previously resided in Broomall and Norris- town PA. 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Eva enjoyed ceramics, sculpting, exercising, playing ten- nis, travel, and bridge. Only ten years ago she was caught reading a book to improve her bridge game. She could always suggest a good book and liked us to make recommend- ations for her reading. She had a lively sense of humor and loved to laugh. Harold Stern, her first cousin, would come down from Con- necticut and celebrate the centenarian lunch- eon where she was the oldest, and only res- ident still living independently. We would go to the Marco Polo restaurant for lunch and after that we schmoozed in her lovely decor- ated large apartment. Eva was very happy she got to vote in the November 2020 election! Eva was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Henry, her parents, her sister who she loved dearly and lost too early, and her cousin Bill Levine. She is survived by her cousin, Harold Stern (Sandra), her tireless and loyal friend, Stan Dezure (Susan) and many great-cousins. Eva is buried in Monte- fiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, next to Henry. JOSEPH LEVINE and SONS www.levinefuneral.com A Community Remembers Monthly archives of Jewish Exponent Death Notices are available online. www.JewishExponent.com Estelle Shelansky died May 26th peacefully surrounded by loved ones. She is survived by her loving Family, Husband Bill Shelansky, Sister Cynthia, Brother Stewart (Arlene) Lieb- man; Children Audrey (Jim), Mike (Marcie), and Lori; Grandchildren Rachel, Matt (Erica), Melissa, Andrew, Robert, Chaz, and Great Grand Children Owen, Jillian, Caleb, Jack, Ad- riana, and Maddie. Her memory is an inspira- tion for all of us and she was loved by all who knew her. Funeral services were held on Sunday May 30, 2021 at Roosevelt Memorial Park chapel and followed by interment. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com S N Y D E R Miriam H. Snyder nee Marder. May 31, 2021. Wife of the late Oscar. Mother of Hon. A. 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Late of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, PA LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to PAUL LICHTMAN, EXECUTOR, c/o Gregory G. Alexander, Esq., 1608 Walnut St., Ste. 900, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Or to his Attorney: GREGORY G. ALEXANDER ALEXANDER & PELLI, LLC 1608 Walnut St., Ste. 900 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF ELLA R. ALBER, De- ceased Late of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to Executor, Donald Peffer, Jr. c/o at- torney: Michael E. Eisenberg, Esquire 2935 Byberry Road, Suite 107 Hatboro, PA 19040 ESTATE OF JULIE M. REICH, DE- CEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to REBECCA SALLEN, EXECUTRIX, 325 Merion Rd., Merion Station, PA 19066, Or to her Attorney: REBECCA SALLEN SALLEN LAW, LLC 325 Merion Rd. Merion Station, PA 19066 ESTATE OF MAXINE A. PINSKY, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to SUSAN PINSKY BLEEKS and ROBERT S. 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Late of Horsham Township, Mont- gomery County, PA LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to LOUIS FORD and BETSY COHEN, ADMINISTRATORS, c/o Paul L. Feldman, Esq., 820 Homestead Rd., Jenkintown, PA 19046, Or to their Attorney: PAUL L. FELDMAN FELDMAN & FELDMAN, LLP 820 Homestead Rd. Jenkintown, PA 19046 ESTATE OF CLAUDIA CHOU, DE- CEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to BILLY CHOU, ADMINIS- TRATOR, c/o Peter L. Klenk, Esq., 2202 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Or to his Attorney: PETER L. KLENK THE LAW OFFICES OF PETER L., KLENK & ASSOCIATES 2202 Delancey Place Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF ELAINE F. WALTER, DECEASED. Late of Norristown Borough, Mont- gomery County, PA LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to DAVID E. WALTER, EXECUTOR, c/o Robert S. Cohen, Esq., The Beas- ley Bldg., 1125 Walnut St., Phil- adelphia, PA 19107-4918, Or to his Attorney: ROBERT S. COHEN LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT S. COHEN The Beasley Bldg. 1125 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19107-4918 facebook.com/jewishexponent Follow us on @jewishexponent 30 JUNE 10, 2021 ESTATE of Everett Javon Munroe aka Everett Munroe; Munroe, Ever- ett Javon aka Munroe, Everett, De- ceased Late of Philadelphia, PA LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay, to: Marcella Munroe, c/o John R. Lundy, Esq., Lundy Beldecos & Milby, PC, 450 N. Narberth Ave., Suite 200, Narberth, PA 19072, Administratrix. Lundy Beldecos & Milby, PC 450 N. Narberth Ave. Suite 200 Narberth, PA 19072 ESTATE OF GLENDA C. MAR- SHALL a/k/a GLENDA MARSHALL, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to ALAN A. SANDERS, EXECUTOR, 233 S. 6 th St., #1609, Philadelphia, PA 19106, Or to his Attorney: MARTIN I. KLEINMAN MARTIN I. KLEINMAN, P.C. 1835 Market St., Ste. 2626 Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF JANE A. McGARRY a/k/a JANE McGARRY, JANE ANN McGARRY, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION CTA on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to DONALD H. TAG- GART, ADMINISTRATOR CTA, c/o Michael F. Frisbie, Esq., 590 Bethle- hem Pike, Colmar, PA 18915, Or to his Attorney: MICHAEL F. FRISBIE PRITCHARD LAW OFFICES 590 Bethlehem Pike Colmar, PA 18915 ESTATE OF JOSE JAVIER RODRIG- UEZ a/k/a JOSE J. RODRIGUEZ, SR., DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to CASSANDRA RODRIGUEZ, EXEC- UTRIX, c/o David S. Workman, Esq., The Bellevue, 6 th Fl., 200 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, Or to her Attorney: DAVID S. WORKMAN ASTOR WEISS KAPLAN & MAN- DEL, LLP The Bellevue, 6 th Fl. 200 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19102 To place an ad in the Real Estate Section, call 215.832.0749 ESTATE of KATHLEEN Y. ALLEN; ALLEN, KATHLEEN Y., Deceased Late of Philadelphia, PA LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same, and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay, to: Angela Wilson, 7732 Cottage St., Philadelphia, PA 19136 and Kathleen Wahl, 3339 Fairdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19154, Co-Executrices. Andrew I. Roseman, Esquire 1528 Walnut St. Suite 1412 Philadelphia, PA 19102 ESTATE OF LESLIE PUCHOWITZ, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to SARA B. PUCHOWTIZ, EXECUTRIX, c/o Laura M. Tobey, Esq., 229 W. Wayne Ave., Wayne, PA 19087, Or to her Attorney: LAURA M. TOBEY REIDENBACH & ASSOCIATES, LLC 229 W. Wayne Ave. Wayne, PA 19087 ESTATE OF MARCUS WILLIAM HASZ, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to RICHARD HASZ, ADMIN- ISTRATOR, c/o Robert S. Levy, Esq., 1204 Township Line Rd., Drexel Hill, PA 19026, Or to his Attorney: ROBERT S. LEVY COOPER SCHALL & LEVY 1204 Township Line Rd. Drexel Hill, PA 19026 ESTATE OF MARYANN E. BARANEK, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to MARY KATE SEIF, EXECUTRIX, 3104 Derry Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19154, Or to her Attorney: MARYBETH O. LAURIA LAURIA LAW, LLC 3031A Walton Rd., Ste. 320 Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 To place a Classified Ad, call 215.832.0749 SELL IT IN THE JEWISH EXPONENT 215-832-0749 ESTATE of Myra J. Tint a/k/a Johnne Tint, Deceased Late of Pennsylvania LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to Allison David S. Rubin, Esq. Ex- ecutor. David Neal Rubin, Esq. 1500 JFK Bvd. Ste 1030 Philadelphia, PA 19102 ESTATE OF NYZARIAH HASNA HARRIS, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to ELTON HARRIS, ADMINIS- TRATOR, c/o Kenneth R. Pugh, Esq., 5401 Wissahickon Ave., Phil- adelphia, PA 19144, Or to his Attorney: KENNETH R. PUGH JERNER LAW GROUP, P.C. 5401 Wissahickon Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19144 ESTATE OF RENA REMEL MYLES, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to MELVIN ROACH, ADMIN- ISTRATOR, c/o Kenneth R. Pugh, Esq., 5401 Wissahickon Ave., Phil- adelphia, PA 19144, Or to his Attorney: KENNETH R. PUGH JERNER LAW GROUP, P.C. 5401 Wissahickon Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19144 ESTATE OF RITA SCOTESE, DE- CEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to ANGELA D. GIAMPOLO, ADMINISTRATRIX, 1221 Locust St., Ste. 202, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Or to her Attorney: ANGELA D. GIAMPOLO GIAMPOLO LAW GROUP, LLC 1221 Locust St., Ste. 202 Philadelphia, PA 19107 ESTATE of ROBERT CORNISH, Deceased Late of Pennsylvania LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the Estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to Donald Cornish, Adminis- trator c/o his attorney Debra G. Speyer, Two Bala Plaza, Suite 300, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. ESTATE OF ROSEMARY CHATTIN a/k/a ROSEMARY T. CHATTIN, DE- CEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION CTA on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to FRANKLIN GOOD, ADMINISTRATOR CTA, c/o Harry Metka, Esq., 4802 Neshaminy Blvd., Ste. 9, Bensalem, PA 19020, Or to his Attorney: HARRY METKA 4802 Neshaminy Blvd., Ste. 9 Bensalem, PA 19020 ESTATE OF ROXANNE ERMEL, De- ceased Late of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to Nicholas Wagner, Adminis- trator, c/o attorney: Michael E. Eisenberg, Esquire 2935 Byberry Road, Suite 107 Hatboro, PA 19040 ESTATE OF RUBY SANDERS, DE- CEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION on the above Estate have been gran- ted to the undersigned, who re- quest all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the de- cedent to make payment without delay to REBECCA SALLEN, AD- MINISTRATRIX, 325 Merion Rd., Merion Station, PA 19066, Or to her Attorney: REBECCA SALLEN SALLEN LAW, LLC 325 Merion Rd. Merion Station, PA 19066 ESTATE OF SYLVESTER EDWARD PEMBERTON, (a/k/a SYLVESTER PEMBERTON, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to MIA GLOVER, EXECUTRIX, c/o An- gela D. Giampolo, Esq., 1221 Lo- cust St., Ste. 202, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Or to her Attorney: ANGELA D. 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Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell joined leaders of Jewish organizations to condemn recent instances of antisemitism. Rep. Ted Deutch, a Democrat from Florida with roots in the Philadelphia area, spoke during the Day of Action Against Antisemitism. Courtesy of Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties Rabbi Deborah Waxman, president of Reconstructing Judaism and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, also spoke during the event. Screenshots by Jesse Bernstein COMMUNITYCALENDAR SUNDAY, JUNE 13 Cantor Concert The Delaware Valley Region of the Cantors Assembly, in partnership with Ohev Shalom of Bucks County, will host “Shir Hadash – A Virtual Concert” at 7 p.m. The program will include the region’s ensemble, conducted by Hazzan David Tilman, along with individual and small group performances. In all, 20 cantors will lend their voices to this artistic offering. Admission is free, yet a donation of $18 is suggested. Contact the Cantors Assembly at hazzanatu@aol.com for details. TUESDAY, JUNE 15 Genocide Discussion This four-session course sponsored by Golden Slipper Gems will examine the particular history of the U.N.’s 1948/2002 definition of genocide. It will also propose a new paradigm for understanding genocide, based on a cross- disciplinary approach to this complex human phenomenon. Tim Horner of Villanova University’s Center for Peace and Justice Education is the instructor. 11 a.m. Call 610-359-8632 or visit goldenslippergems.org for more information. Book Club In “The Orchard,” Israeli novelist Yochi Brandes assumes the narrative viewpoint of Rachel, the wife of the mystical, at times radical, Rabbi Akiva, in the period just after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Rabbi Eric Yanoff of Adath Israel on the Main Line leads the discussion at 11 a.m. in this Golden Slipper Gems program. Call 610-359-8632 or visit goldenslippergems.org for more information. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 Bereavement Group For the post-bereaved, held at Northeast NORC, 8546B Bustleton Ave. in Philadelphia from 1-2:30 p.m. No charge, Email rivkapowers@ gmail.com or call 215-320-0351 to register. LGBTQ Support Group This support group by Jewish Family and Children’s Service is for anyone who is a relative of an LGBTQ individual. This group is a safe place to ask questions, express emotions and learn from other folks in similar places. 6:30 p.m. RSVP at jfcsphilly. org/supportgroups. A zoom link is provided upon registration. For more information, contact Galia Godel at ggodel@jfcsphilly.org or call 267-273-6006. Elizabeth Holtzman Speaks Former U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Holzman will recount her efforts in Congress to bring Nazi war criminals hiding in the United States to justice during Gratz College’s Feinstone Memorial Lecture on the Meaning of Freedom. 7: 30 p.m. Visit gratz.edu to register. A webinar link is sent after registration. For more information, email mcohen@gratz.edu or call 215-635-7300, ext. 155 World Music Enjoy classical and popular songs from Europe, Israel and the United States performed by Cantor Jacob Agar and pianist Emily Olin with a special performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”This event will be in-person and livestreamed from the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Main Sanctuary of Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park. 7:30 p.m. See bethshalomcongregation. org for details. 8231 Old York Road, Elkins Park. THURSDAY, JUNE 17 Art Class Enjoy Jewish Family and Children’s Service’s virtual art classes for an opportunity to explore different techniques and styles. Classes will run at 11 a.m. each Thursday for 10 weeks, but the group will be closed after June 17. The capacity is 20. RSVP at jfcsphilly.org/events/ discovering-the-art-within-w01/. A Zoom link will be provided after registration. For more information, email Debora King at dking@ jfcsphilly.org. Virtual Beef and Beer The Men’s Club of Congregations of Shaare Shamayim will host a virtual Beef & Beer starting at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $18 per person. Entertainment will be Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Mike Sielski. Contact the CSS office at 215-677-1600 for further information. Pride Screening In honor of Pride Month, the Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival presents “Little Girl,” the latest film from acclaimed Jewish filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz. The movie is a moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl, and her family, who have recently accepted and embraced their daughter for who she truly is. The move will stream at 7 p.m. and be available for 72 hours. 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