‘GOLEM’
AWAKENS STEAM BATH
Exhibit takes a look at death
and associated Jewish rituals.

JUNE 10, 2021 / 30 SIVAN 5781
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OBITUARY Survivor Michael
Herskovits Dies
Auschwitz survivor
often spoke about
his experiences.

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LOCAL CookNSolo to
Open Event Venue
Lilah to debut in
Fishtown in 2022.

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LOCAL Abby Stein
Advocates for
Transgender Pride
Talk chronicles
challenges as a
transgender woman.

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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.

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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. Two weeks later, the original claim was
See Fears, Page 15