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Volume 134
Number 8
Published Weekly Since 1887
Confl ict
Aftermath Stresses Local
Organizations JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
AS ISRAELIS AND Palestinians alike
emerge from the rubble of 11 days of
fi ghting that killed 200 and sparked a
global wave of antisemitism, the stakes of
the confl ict are heightened once more, at
home and abroad.

Th e last few weeks have been a test,
according to some American-Jewish
groups. Political and educational groups in
Philadelphia, like the Jewish Community
Relations Council, Jews in ALL Hues and
the American Jewish Committee work
in formal and informal coalitions with
a variety of non-Jewish groups. Th ey all
partner with organizations that may not
be explicitly Zionist or anti-Zionist, but
whose work concerns the questions at play
in the confl ict, questions about human
rights, politics, social justice and more.

Representatives from those organiza-
tions say that, at some level, the most
recent spate of bombing is a stress test
for the bonds that their organizations
have formed with their peers, bonds that
have, fortunately, held fast. But as reports
Students in Adath Israel’s confi rmation program taught their parents and teachers on May 16.

Photo by Rabbi Eric Yanoff
Synagogues Start Returning
to In-person Events
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THEY’RE COMING IN for confi rmation
and Kabbalat Shabbat. Th ere’s a mock-up
Israeli shuk coming to Congregation Beth
El-Ner Tamid, sitars and fl amenco guitar
at Congregation Beth Sholom and dancing
in the alley behind Makom Community at
20th and Sansom streets.

All across the Philadelphia area,
increased vaccination rates and declining
positivity rates in COVID-19 tests are
allowing synagogues and other Jewish
community hubs to dip their toes back
into hosting in-person community events,
if ever-so gingerly. Th ough no one appears
to be rushing back for indoor, maskless
events in the near future, synagogue
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