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JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF staff writer Sophie Panzer by a reporter. Recipes are often As of March 7, 2021, nearly looked back to the first Jewish THE FIRST MENTION of selected with our inability to a fifth of the U.S. popula- holiday to fall during the COVID-19 in the Jewish gather with large groups in tion has received at least one pandemic. Exponent came on March 3, mind. Most trend stories are dose of a vaccine, according “On March 9, 2020, news COVID-trend stories. Every to the Times. For some, the of the pandemic was making 2020. The story combined reporting from JTA with contributions from former staff writer Eric Schucht. In the fifth paragraph in a story about It’s going to be a much lonelier time for many people.” the Israeli elections, Schucht wrote that the final counting RABBI AARON GABER, IN 2020 had not yet accounted for “the so-called ‘double envelope’ ballots, which include soldiers, hospitalized patients, prisoners and, this year, citizens quaran- obituary’s subject was memori- end is finally in sight. Still, people uneasy, but widespread tined over possible exposure to alized from afar. Our coverage the pandemic persists in shutdowns and research about of a tumultuous presidential taking our lives and our time. the dangers of gatherings had the coronavirus.” Since that story, the election and what was possibly As the one-year anniversary yet to fully take hold,” Panzer Exponent has published more the largest protest movement of Pennsylvania’s work-from- wrote. than 400 articles that mention in the history of the country, home order approaches, Information about the the word “coronavirus”: op-eds, according to The New York we took inventory of what’s safety of such an event was local news, divrei Torah and Times, were handled from happened. still muddled then, so some more. But even this undersells home. congregations and Jewish the impact of the pandemic on The world was funda- Ritual Life groups chose to proceed with our work. mentally reshaped by the In a Feb. 11, 2021, article caution, while others canceled L OCA L Benjamin Behrend (top left) and Logan Schulman host a fictional shiva in “Welcome to the Shiva House” in September 2020. Courtesy of Benjamin Behrend 4 MARCH 11, 2021 events altogether. This year, most synagogues hosted their Purim events outside, or via Zoom; only a smattering hosted indoor gatherings. In 2020, Passover presented the next challenge, and questions about digital literacy became pressing as many families realized that their older relatives could not safely join them in person. “It’s going to be a much lonelier time for many people,” Rabbi Aaron Gaber of Congregation Brothers of Israel in Newtown said at the time. As for Shabbat, rabbis reported much higher-than- usual attendance as their congregants learned to use Zoom. On college campuses, Hillels and Chabad Houses tried to unite their students through various versions of “Shabbat to-go boxes” and outdoor meals. See Changed, Page 16 Dvora Entin, a specialist in maternal mental health based in Bala Cynywd, speaks to clients from her home in spring 2020. Courtesy of Dvora Entin JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Serenade by Brandywine W HAT IS D IFFERENT A BOUT S ERENADE L IVING ? Serenade is a complement of our personal care services and accommodations boasting newly appointed furnishings, a private Butler, refined décor, comfortable and intimate lounge, and upgraded luxurious suites. Serenade is meticulously designed to surpass expectations and is inspired by a lifestyle with an emphasis on luxury, privacy and service. 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O ne ye a r si nc e t he pandemic began, the Exponent has featured 25 people in six sections of “Those We’ve Lost,” and the names of new coronavirus victims continue to appear in the newspaper’s Death Notices section and staff inboxes. These names belong to Jewish teachers, veterans, clergy, doctors, business owners, nonprofit workers, athletes, artists and more. This is by no means an exhaustive list of members of the Philadelphia Jewish community who have died of COVID-19 over the last year, but it is a tribute to those we covered thanks to the outreach of their loved ones. Most of the people below received more extensive coverage at the time of their death. Two of the people, Ashley Altman and Susan Love, were not covered in one of our “Those We’ve Lost” install- ments, so they get a little extra detail here. For the others, we chose a couple of humanizing details about them to remind you of who they were. March 2020 Dr. Irvin Kean, 95, worked out twice a day and walked the golf courses of Sarasota, Florida, six days a week. He was a dentist for 43 years. April 2020 Rebbetzin Rachel Altein, 95, was an influential leader within the Chabad Lubavitch movements and worked at the Chabad Women’s Organization’s publication Di Yiddishe Heim (“The Jewish Home”) as its English-language editor. Loretta Coleman, 85, was born in London during World War II and married Gerald Coleman, a “bespoke tailor from Liverpool,” as her son Rabbi Alexander Coleman put it. Margit Feldman, 91, was born in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She served on the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education for more than 40 years, helped pass a state law mandating a Holocaust and genocide curriculum in public schools and co-founded Raritan Valley Community College Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Ethel Hamburger, 92, was a longtime Sisterhood leader at Beth El Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, the 1947 Chicago Jr. Hadassah Ashley J. Altman Membership Queen and one-time Congregant of the Year at Beth Sholom husband, Bernard Millrood, in 1974. She was an artist who Eileen Chanin, 74, taught Congregation in Elkins Park. loved painting, needlepoint herself to play the piano and sculpture. Sylvia Millrood, 82, was the one-handed after an injury. She first president of the Sisterhood had an adventurous spirit and Gloria Allen Moskowitz, traveled to Morocco with her of Congregation Or Shalom, 88, was the former admin- which she founded with her 1-year-old as a young mother. istrative coordinator of John Bartram High School Motivation Annex, where she A simpler, more convenient was known for her dedication lifestyle awaits at Dunwoody to underserved students. “If Village. 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Roy Gomer, 83, was a dedicated father and loved taking care of his grand- children. His wife, Bobbie Gomer, 79, was a fixture of the Philadelphia bridge scene and achieved the distinction of Platinum Life Master. They Eve Rudin, 103, was a died within one day of each passionate liberal political other. activist. “She went door-to- door against McCarthy and Libbie Rubin Greenbaum, had a lot of influence on me,” 96, enjoyed swimming, tennis daughter Marion Rudin Frank and bridge. She was active in said. “She was very much the Sisterhood of Main Line for women having an equal Reform Temple and Hadassah. opportunity.” Arlene Horowitz, 78, was May 2020 a former art educator in the Richard Aronson, 94, was Haverford School District and JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H EADLINES Virtual Dementia Support Groups Specially Designed for Families and Caregivers on Zoom Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Joining is easy! Call 215.957.5182 or e-mail Warminster@arden-courts.com to register and receive the link to join the support group. You do not need to download the Zoom application to join the event. Susan Love Courtesy of Ashley Freedman created the program Art Goes was beloved by her nieces and to School. She loved throwing nephews. parties, whether it was for the High Holidays or a random December 2020 Tuesday. Ashley Altman, 100, was a World War II veteran who Melva Klebanoff, 95, earned a Bronze Star for his taught art at Samuel K. Faust work tracking enemy troop Elementary in the Bensalem movements before the Battle of School District for more than the Bulge. He worked as a real 25 years. She was an artist, and estate developer in Philadelphia her true love was painting. aft er his honorable discharge. He was a charter founder Avraham MacConnell, 72, of the Ellis Island Project and served in the Vietnam War and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial became a Philadelphia police Museum and supported many offi cer when he returned from Jewish charities. He also estab- military service. He worked as a lished the Sandra Altman Brain detective in the sex crimes unit Tumor Research Fellowship of the Juvenile Aid Division and Visiting Professorship at and received a commendation Penn Medicine in honor of his for going undercover to expose wife, who died of a brain tumor a youth detention center abuse at 45. ring. Altman was an avid Philadelphia sports fan and Nola Schwartz, 85, was a particularly loved the Phillies businesswoman who enjoyed and the Eagles, but his favorite treating her loved ones to tickets granted admission to Broadway shows and fancy the sports games and recitals of meals in New York. 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Restaurants can reopen at 75% capacity indoors for vaccinated Israelis, while unvaccinated people can be served outdoors. Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, which has been largely closed since January, will allow 1,000 people to enter the country daily, with the number increasing to 3,000 later this week, The Times of Israel reported. Salaries Rise 7% in Israel in 2020, Jobs Decline 10% The average monthly salary for a full-time employee in Israel rose 7% in 2020 to $3,457, Globes reported, citing Central Bureau of Statistics data. But the report wasn’t all good news, noting that the number of salaried jobs fell 10% — and that one of the reasons for the increased average salaries is the fall in the number of low-paid jobs because of the pandemic. Job cuts were mostly in the hotel, catering and restaurant sectors, where jobs fell 40.9%, and in the arts, entertainment and leisure sector, where jobs dropped 35.7%. 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As part of the biennial Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In, Spiegelman, creator of “Maus” and the first cartoonist to ever win the Pulitzer Prize, gave several talks to different groups over the course of the afternoon. For a few hours, viewers heard from the 73 year-old Spiegelman on topics like MAD magazine, American cartooning, Donald Trump, Zionism, Elie Wiesel, Charlie Hebdo, “Maus” and more. “Maus,” Spiegelman’s graphic memoir for which he is best known, is both the story of his father’s experience of the Holocaust in Poland and Spiegelman’s own experience as the son of Holocaust survivors. It is based on record- ings that Spiegelman made of his father’s testimony. The resulting work, published serially between 1980 and 1991, won praise and awards for Spiegelman from across the globe. “Maus” is well-suited to the themes of the teach-in. The late Arnold and Esther Tuzman, the namesakes of the teach-in, were both Holocaust survivors. Their son, Marty Tuzman, and grand- daughter, Kira Foley-Tuzman, described the experience of carrying on the legacy of their forebearers for the teach-in attendees, emphasizing the Gary Weissman (top row, second from left) discusses the educational utility of “Maus.” Screenshot by Jesse Bernstein responsibility that they feel to honor their memory. After leading VIP sponsors on a tour of his at-home studio, Spiegelman spoke to all attendees for close to an hour. Puffing on a blue-ringed vape, Spiegelman said that he tried to avoid talking about “Maus” for many years, as the same questions came up repeatedly. He even wrote a companion book, “MetaMaus,” that sought to preempt many of them. 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Sussman and Art Spiegelman Screenshot by Jesse Bernstein quite thought I’d see fascism rear its head in America.” When a commenter expressed dismay that Spiegelman’s discus- sion was focusing too much on politics, the cartoonist was indignant. “Th is isn’t politics as some kind of abstraction. Th is is politics. Th e Holocaust was politics. And we’re living through politics now,” he said. In conversation with Rabbi Lance J. Sussman of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Spiegelman discussed the history of American cartooning and the publication of “Maus.” Mostly, he answered questions about particular choices he’d made in the creation of “Maus,” covering everything from his portrayal of Polish people as pigs to a shadow on the cover. Preregistered participants then broke into two groups. One session, led by Gary Weissman, an adjunct professor at Gratz and an associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, was intended for educators at the high school and college levels. Weissman discussed the various ways in which “Maus” could be used to teach students about the interplay between literature, history and memory. In the other session, Spiegelman addressed more than 40 Gratz students. He discussed his relationship to Israel, the diff erence between him and Elie Wiesel, and a new project he’d illustrated for the novelist Robert Coover; he talked about fascism, Plastic Man and the diff erence between the Republican and Democratic parties. Th e work of Wiesel and some other survivors, Spiegelman said, felt “emotionally manipu- lative” to him; additionally, he had no intention of becoming JEWISHEXPONENT.COM a writer who would be called upon every time someone need a pronouncement on a matter of the Holocaust. “I have no real problem with his work,” Spiegelman said of Wiesel. “But I certainly didn’t want to spend the rest of my life having to become a second gener- ation explicator of something that I put everything I could know into this one 13-year-long project, and live only in that.” Spiegelman recommended the work of younger cartoon- ists, and plugged Astra Quarterly, a new international literary magazine edited by his daughter, Nadja Spiegelman. He answered many questions regarding teaching techniques when it came to “Maus”; most were preceded by an outpouring of gratitude for Spiegelman’s work. Spiegelman insisted that education wasn’t on his mind when he fi rst put pencil to paper. “I never made ‘Maus’ to teach anybody anything consciously. I didn’t think the world could learn,” he said. “I just knew this was a story that people at that time, which was 1972, barely knew.” (Spiegelman drew the fi rst “Maus” strip in 1972.) Spiegelman tried to situate “Maus” in the history of American cartooning, explaining that the genre wasn’t usually considered to have any literary merit for most of its history. It was his work and that of a few other cartoonists in the late ’80s, he said, that fi nally brought a more sympathetic critical eye. ● jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740 a why not kind of person i am There are many pages in a long, rich life. What will you be inspired to do next? Maybe you’ll engage with new people, spend more time with the ones you know best. Or take time to just be. 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The subject: COVID-19 vaccine appointments. The WFCA, an interfaith group of churches, mosques and synagogues, has been together for more than 30 years. Today, the WFCA promotes interreligious and interracial understanding, community service, pulpit exchanges and an annual Thanksgiving service. For years, Eller said, there had been a bubbling desire among WFCA members to do more. But more of what? Because the group’s active Rabbi Gregory Marx is a member of the Wissahickon Faith Community Association. Photo by Dara King UPSCALE LIVING STEPS ABOVE IT ALL! Designed with luxury in mind, The Residences at the Promenade off er lavish apartments situated above a beautiful town center. • Park Trails • Pool with Sundeck • Dog Parks & Washrooms • Media & Game Rooms Amenities too many to mention! • Bocce Court • Fitness Center Clean Juice • Sprouts Farmers Market • Lululemon • Fine Wine and Good Spirits! Coming Soon! 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Sarah Aziz, the director of the Dollar Bank Th ree Rivers Arts Festival where Simon performed, was captivated by her “mature voice” and professionalism. “When I heard Sloane, I didn’t know her age,” Aziz told the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle in 2018. “I just heard her and said, ‘Let’s put her on the acoustic stage.’ Th en she fi lled out her bio, and my marketing director called me and said, ‘Did you know you programmed a 13-year-old?’” The first original song Simon penned was “365,” a tribute to her mother, Robin, who was battling cancer. Simon’s mother not only beat the cancer, she fl ew to San Diego to support the younger Simon for the “American Idol” auditions. Simon’s publicist said Simon had no idea how many people were auditioning for the “golden ticket” this season — COVID-19 kept everyone socially distanced and in separate rooms. “We were tested a lot,” Simon said. “But we felt really safe.” “Th e scariest part was the fl ight,” she added, laughing. Simon is sly about details for her upcoming debut EP, saying only, “I have a few songs but I’m not spilling anything.” She’s excited to talk, though, about the experience of auditioning on an interna- tional hit music show. “It was just an amazing experience to be included,” she said. “It was a fantastic college essay.” ● Justin Vellucci is a freelance writer living in Pittsburgh. This story was fi rst published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines NEWSBRIEFS British School Gives Homework Blaming Jews for Jesus’ Death A BRITISH EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE director has apologized for a homework assignment in which Jews were blamed in the killing of Jesus, JTA reported. Chris Spolton, who runs the Topmarks site, removed the assignment following a complaint by a mother, Joanne Bell. Her 7-year-old son was instructed by his religious studies teacher at school to complete the assignment before Bell saw it and flagged it on social media, the Daily Mail reported. “What harm has it ever done to portray Jews as bloodthirsty and solely responsible for the death of the believed son of G-d, Jesus,” she tweeted sarcastically. Spolton made the slides 20 years ago when he was “young and naive,” he wrote to Bell, and “based on books found in the local library.” The school whose teacher gave the assignment also apologized to Bell. The toys violated eBay’s policy against products that promote hate or violent ideologies, according to the Jewish News. That includes anything that promotes anti-Semitic stereotypes, as well as “histor- ical Holocaust-related and Nazi-related items, including reproductions, any item that is anti-Semitic or any item from after 1933 that bears a swastika [and] media identified as Nazi propaganda.” Nazi German coins are an exception. Amazon and Etsy also have removed items that promoted anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories following public backlash. Deni Avdija Makes NBA’s Rising Stars Team Israeli-born Washington Wizards rookie forward Deni Avdija was named to the NBA’s Rising Stars Challenge game during All-Star Weekend. The Challenge features the league’s top 20 rookies and second-year players, JTA reported. Avdija, 20, who was the ninth overall pick in the 2020 draft, is averaging 6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 21 minutes a game. He started the team’s first 16 EBay Removes Nazi Toys Online auction giant eBay removed at least 15 games of the season, but was sidelined for three weeks Nazi-themed toys — including SS guards and Nazi after contracting COVID-19. “I’ve learned a lot of things, faced against a lot of tanks — from its listings, JTA reported. good players — all in all, it made me a better player,” Avdija said. “I’m doing whatever I can to help the team win and what the coach needs me to do on the floor.” Jewish Golfers Win Back-to-Back PGA Tournaments in February Jewish golfers won consecutive tournaments on the PGA Tour in February, according to the PGA website. Daniel Berger won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Feb. 14, clinching the victory with a 31-foot eagle putt on the final hole. A week later, Max Homa won the Genesis Invitational in his hometown of Pacific Palisades, California. He needed a playoff to win after a 3-foot putt lipped out on the 18th hole. Berger, 27, previously won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in both 2016 and 2017 and the Charles Schwab Challenge in 2020. He is ranked 13th in the world. His father is former top 10 tennis pro Jay Berger. Homa, 30, won the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship in 2013 and as a pro won the 2019 Wells Fargo Championship. He is ranked 38th in the world. l — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb Name: Brightview Senior Living Width: 9.25 in Depth: 5.5 in Color: Black plus one Comment: JE 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! 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The High Holidays in 2020 left synagogues with few choices, none of them particularly attractive; some, like B’nai Abraham Chabad, chose a radically scaled- down version of in-person services, while others, like Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu- El, filmed or livestreamed their services. B y t h e t i m e C h a nu k a h rol led around, outdoor com mu na l ac t iv it y wa s frequently restricted to cars. The unstoppable menorah car parade came down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and “drive-through” events, to be repeated by many during Purim 2021, were everywhere. 16 MARCH 11, 2021 Social Services The strain put on Jewish social services in Philadelphia was unlike anything faced in recent memory. It’s not simply that groups like Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia or Jewish Relief Agency have more people vying for their services. It’s that those services need to be provided virtually so they don’t pose a risk to the provider. Similar dynamics developed for Federation Housing, the Hebrew Free Loan Society, HIAS PA, JEVS, the Mitzvah Food Program and ot her socia l ser v ice organizations. Prior to the pandemic, JRA counted on about 1,000 volun- teers to deliver a little more than 3,000 boxes of food to clients each month. As of July 2020, 74 food banks ceased operations entirely and many of them directed their clients to JRA. Now, fewer than 10% of the typical volunteer base is permitted inside JRA’s facilities at any given time. As recently as October, those who were permitted inside were tasked with getting nearly 3,900 boxes of food, household goods and PPE to masked drivers waiting outside the building. Gan students at the Stern Center with teacher Marlee Glustoff Courtesy of Perelman Jewish Day School This is a very different way in which we are releasing funds into the community.” ABBEY FRANK, IN 2020 “It’s been very challenging,” said Julie Roat, JRA’s chief of operations in April 2020. Demand has spiked since then. At JFCS, staff scrambled to move their work online as JEWISH EXPONENT they brought their clients up to digital speed. Now, the team deals with the typical concerns of their clients — finance, mental health, disability services, eldercare and more — along with a wide variety of COVID-specific issues. Webinars have become a key feature of their work. Many organizations received outside help, whether in the form of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans or assistance from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Last summer, rabbis were gifted an undis- closed amount of cash, prorated to the size of their congregation, to discreetly disburse to their congregants, as needed. “This is a very different way in which we are releasing funds into the community,” Abbey Frank, director of program operations at the Jewish Federation, said in June. School and Education The first articles about education during the pandemic focused on the novelty. Teachers and students alike found that they had adapted quickly, and social life was re-cre- ated, to some extent, through class get-togethers. Students were sleeping in, spared of a commute; teachers like Toby Miller of Kellman Brown Academy were discovering what a mute button could do for a room full of second-graders. But the novelty wore off and the debate over in-person instruction got heated. Over the summer, parents, children, administrators and teachers dealt with a complex web of priorities and competing narratives about the safety of returning to in-person education. Some dropped the idea altogether, opting for pod education. As Jewish day schools announced their inten- tion to use the hybrid model, or JEWISHEXPONENT.COM H eadlines Financial advice from a knowledgeable neighbor. E. Matthew Steinberg Managing Director – Investments (888) 800-1152 matthew.steinberg@opco.com Serving Investors in Philadelphia and South Jersey for 27 Years. 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Jewish parents were part of an organized opposition to Montgomery County school closures last fall. “They always say, ‘Follow the science,’” one parent said of the closure. “The school is following the science. So I’ve kind of lost faith in people that want to make those types of decisions.” On the other side, some teachers have expressed skepticism over the safety precautions taken by their superiors. Thousands of educa- tors, including Jewish teachers, taught outside in freezing weather on Feb. 8 to protest the Philadelphia school district’s reopening plan. Mental Health The last year has been a challenge in terms of mental health. According to The Atlantic, “the share of Americans reporting symptoms of anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, or both roughly quadrupled from June 2019 to December 2020.” Isolation remains an issue, especially among the immuno- compromised and the elderly. Last spring, we spoke to mental health professionals who were transitioning their clients to telehealth. “Even if it’s not in-person, face-to-face interaction,” said David Rosenberg, JFCS senior vice president of programs and strategy, “that telehealth allows us to check in with people and keep them connected and let people know that we’re here and we care about them.” In the fall, Courtney Owen, JFCS’ director of individual SUPERIOR CARE IN EVERY WAY! Nationally Recognized for our Long-Term Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation by U.S. News and World Report and Medicare with a Five-Star Rating. For more information contact Kellie, Clinical Liaison by calling 215-934-3021 PaulsRun.org/Save 9896 Bustleton Avenue • Philadelphia, PA 19115 See Changed, Page 18 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Retirement Community JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 17 H eadlines Changed Continued from Page 17 and family services, said that demand for mental health services was high and rising. Mental health organizations have had to change the way they operate as well. Tikvah/Advocates for the Jewish Mentally Ill recently held its first online gala. Executive Director Alana Hilsey was pleased with the final product. “Of course, I want to be there in person and give someone a hug and congratulate people in person and give them physical awards,” Hilsey said. “That part is different. But I think like the sense of community, the essence of Tikvah, that felt the same to me, honestly.” doing laundry, cooking dinner and keeping house for a whole brood. “When your kids leave the house, you adjust to them being gone,” Rosen said. First-time parents had radically different experiences than they’d expected. Rachel Keiser, who gave birth to her first child, Bradley, in September, has juggled the emotional and physical demands of motherhood with isolation from her friends and family, as well as more time at home with her husband than anticipated. “It made me love him more, how well he kept me safe and the baby safe,” Keiser said of her husband, Harrison Keiser. As for social life, some have enjoyed online gatherings as a welcome alternative to freezing the pandemic began, that hasn’t stopped visual artists, playwrights, museum curators, dancers or musicians from creating. Online culture has flour- ished, from exhibits at the National Museum of American Jewish History, virtual tours of the Old City Jewish Arts Center and streamed perfor- mances from Theatre Ariel. We’ve all become accustomed to Zoom and online streams for cultural events, including movies. Both the Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and the Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia went to a virtual model. Plays, at first adapted for the Zoom screen, started to be written for the medium. Some artists and performers, like “Pop Art Rabbi” Yitzchok What I’ve been saying since the beginning of the pandemic, and especially as we’re trying to sustain this a year in, is it’s all about the quality of the individual’s experience.” Fran Orkin meets her great-grandson, Bradley Keiser, for the first time after weeks of strict quarantine. Photo by Rachel Keiser ROSS WEISMAN Relationships outdoor hangs. Ross Weisman, engagement associate at Tribe 12, said that the online events he’s planned for young Jews in their 20s and 30s are generally well-attended and people who join have relished the chance to interrupt their isolation. “What I’ve been saying since the beginning of the pandemic, and especially as we’re trying to sustain this a year in, is it’s all about the quality of the individual’s experience, not necessarily, like, ‘OK, how many people did we get to sign up for our Zoom webinar tonight?’” Weisman said. Moully, have continued to make art for people to see in person. Moully’s recurring experiential art piece based in a sukkah, “We All Belong,” was available for a limited number of visitors to the OCJAC back in October. At NMAJH, frequent public events — movies, lectures, and performance of Jewish music — were bright spots in a diffi- cult year. “When we can’t get into our intimate theater because a pandemic is passing over us, it’s such a great way to connect, using music,” Dan Samuels, NMAJH’s public programs manager, said in July. l One of the most frequently discussed casualties of the pandemic is personal relationships. Adults were separated from their elderly parents and grand- parents. Those elderly parents and grandparents were separated from everyone for a year. Close friends were unable to see one another, and peripheral friend- ships were put on hold. Graduating college students found themselves back in their childhood bedrooms. Recent high school graduates put college off for a year or gutted their way through a dessicated version. 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A year ago, most of us didn’t know how to mute or turn on the video feature. We certainly couldn’t display Haggadah commentary for everyone at our virtual table to see. At my seder, which stretched from Connecticut to California, sadly one set of grandparents couldn’t figure out how to connect. A family of five sat too far from their computer. While we could see them from a distance, we could hardly hear them. Because my grandchildren were attending school virtually, they navigated us through Zoom. With all its challenges, last year Zoom made celebrating Passover possible. It also brought together loved ones who live so far away, they’d never attended our seders before. Now that most of us have become proficient with Zoom, order will return to our seders. Because we’ve adapted to virtual Passover celebra- tions, I suggest revamping our approach to reflect our modern, tech-savvy state. Vibrant foods show well on camera. Instead of gefilte fish, why not start with a dazzling ceviche made from red snapper filets? Try a baby spinach salad bursting with colorful fruit. Consider bypassing brisket in favor of roasted Cornish hens seasoned with herbs. Select a Zoom-friendly, make-ahead menu, so hosts don’t disappear from the camera while cooking in the kitchen. Zoom allows you to share visuals of the delicacies you’re serving with family who can’t be there in person. Present food in attractive tableware. For snap, garnish dishes with parsley. A lifesaver during the COVID crisis, Zoom has expanded our horizons. Yet most of us long for the past. Traditionally, seders end with the refrain, “Next year in Jerusalem.” But let’s add, “Next year gathered in one dining room — just like it used to be.” CEVICHE | PAREVE Ceviche  Fudio / iStock / Getty Images Plus Serves 8 The high acidity in fresh lime juice actually cooks fish during the marinating process. 1½ pounds red snapper filets. Ask the fish store to remove the skin and bones. 8 ounces fresh lime juice, about 4-6 limes 6 tablespoons each, chopped: red onion, yellow pepper and parsley 3 tablespoons, minced ginger 4 garlic cloves, squeezed through a garlic press 12 cherry tomatoes, cut in half 1 avocado, diced Salt and pepper to taste Sugar to taste, only if needed With a sharp knife, slice the red snapper into thin pieces and place them in a glass or ceramic bowl. Add the remaining ingredients — except sugar. Gently toss. Marinate from 30 minutes to two hours, tossing several times. The snapper will become opaque. If the ceviche tastes too tart, add a little sugar and a few drops of water. Serve in small bowls. Name: Keystone Motors Width: 5.5 in COLORFUL BABY SPINACH SALAD | PAREVE Serves 8 This salad looks spectacular when served in a glass bowl. Dressing ½ cup olive oil ½ cup red wine vinegar Kosher salt to taste ¼ teaspoon garlic powder Place the ingredients in a clean jar or empty container with a lid. Shake until the ingre- dients are well combined. The dressing can be made to this point three days in advance. Shake well before pouring it on the salad. Salad 1½ cups whole pecans 10- ounce package cherry tomatoes, preferably in various colors 4 clementines 16- ounce box baby spinach 4 MARCH 11, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT In a toaster oven or oven, roast the pecans at 350F for 2 minutes or until fragrant. Check the pecans after a minute as they burn easily. Cool to room temperature and reserve. These can be made three days ahead if kept in a sealed container. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Peel the clementines, break them into sections and remove the pith. If the spinach is bought triple washed, it doesn’t need to washed again. If not, rinse the spinach under cold water and dry it in a salad spinner. These three ingredi- ents can be layered with paper towels and placed in a plastic bag a day in advance. Before the seder begins, place the bagged ingredients in a large salad bowl. 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Turn the hens upside each Olive oil for coating pan, plus down, and let water run out of their cavities into the sink. Drain 2 tablespoons to drizzle them on paper towels. Reserve. on vegetables, plus Place the potatoes and 1-2 tablespoons for the carrots in a plastic bag. Drizzle Cornish hens in 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Seal 1½ pounds fingerling the bag and shake until every potatoes, halved piece is coated with oil. Scatter lengthwise the pieces around the edges of 10 carrots, peeled and cut the roasting pan. Some pieces into thin carrot sticks may go under the rack. Sprinkle Kosher salt to taste the vegetables with salt. ½ teaspoon each: dried Place the herbs in a bowl and rosemary, thyme and basil crush them into small pieces and Paprika for dusting mix together. Rub a little olive 1 medium-sized onion, oil on the hens to coat. Arrange the hens on the rack with the underside facing up. Sprinkle the underside with half of the herb mixture and salt. Dust with the paprika. Press the season- ings into the skins of the hens. Turn the hens over and repeat with the remaining herbs, salt and paprika. Sprinkle the onion chunks with salt and place them in the cavities of the hens. Roast for an hour, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the breast reads 165 degrees F. Serve immediately. The recipe can be made to this point 2 days ahead. To eat the meal later, cool it to room temperature and refrigerate. Return it to room temperature 2½ hours before serving. Thirty minutes before serving, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Place the hens and vegeta- bles in separate ovenproof pans. Herb-roasted cornish hens with vegetables alisafarov / iStock / Getty Images Plus Heat the hens and vegetables for 20 minutes, or until slowly sizzling. Cut the hens in half with poultry shears and serve them on a platter. Discard the onion. Move the vegetables to an attractive bowl. Serve immediately. l Name: Goldstein’s Funeral Home Width: 9.25 in Depth: 5.5 in Color: Black plus one Comment: 3/11 Passover Palate 6 MARCH 11, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM P assover P alate Passover Menu Tradition and Twists seder. Cooks can fill in with their “must-haves,” but this A ROAST CHICKEN is a cleaves pretty well to tradition quintessential holiday meal. while giving each dish a bit of But just because it is traditional a refresh. and typical does not mean that it isn’t wonderful, or that it RAPTUROUS ROAST CHICKEN can’t be really special. Even a meh roast chicken Serves 4 is pretty good, but when it is brined properly, seasoned well Many brining instructions and roasted with care and preci- require heating the water sion, well, it can be pretty darn to dissolve the spices, then transcendent. Ditto roasted cooling the brine before adding veggies. the chicken. Pshaw, I say. I have Sure, we’ve been doing always just chucked it all in them for years, but have you cold and it’s worked just fine. done them with a lemon- caper dressing? And mashed Brining: potatoes are rather common, 1 roaster, 5-7 pounds but how about gussying them 3 tablespoons salt up with mashed garlic and pan 3 tablespoons sugar drippings from the chicken? 1 tablespoon each finely Now we’re talking! ground pepper, garlic The following menu forms powder, dried thyme and the basis for a small-group dried rosemary KERI WHITE | JE FOOD COLUMNIST 1 gallon water (approximately) ⅓ cup white vinegar Roasting: 3 tablespoons minced garlic ½ cup water or broth Brine the chicken: Fill a large pot halfway with water, and add all remaining ingre- dients except the chicken; stir to dissolve. Rinse the chicken, remove the giblets and place it in the pot. Fill the pot the rest of the way with water to cover the chicken. Cover the pot and place it in the refrigerator for 12-24 hours. 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Place garlic compromise for the peel/ inside the chicken cavity and non-peel contingents. pour the broth or water into the bottom of the pan. 6 large potatoes, cut in Roast the chicken in the oven uniform chunks for 20 minutes per pound, until 8 cloves garlic, peeled a meat thermometer inserted in ½ to ¾ cup pan drippings the thigh registers 170 degrees from roasted chicken F. Tent the chicken with foil Salt and pepper to taste for about 10 minutes. Scoop about ¾ cup of pan drippings In a large pot, place the to mash into the potatoes (see potatoes, garlic and a generous below). Carve, plate and, just pinch of salt. Cover, bring it before serving, pour some of to a boil, reduce the heat and the remaining pan drippings simmer for about 20 minutes, onto the sliced meat. until a knife inserted into a potato goes through easily and MASHED POTATOES WITH the potatoes are soft. GARLIC AND PAN DRIPPINGS Drain the potatoes and Serves 4 garlic well and return them to the pot. Leave them on I do not peel potatoes, but the turned off but still warm if you and your crew must burner for a minute, uncov- have the skins removed, be ered, to allow them to dry. my guest. The preparation is Using a fork, poke around the Continued from Page 7 pot and mash the garlic cloves before you mash the potatoes — you want to be sure to mash the garlic well — it will be much milder than raw garlic, but it needs to be spread throughout the dish, not left as whole cloves. Pour the pan drippings over the potatoes and garlic and mash well. Season with salt and pepper, and serve hot. ROASTED CAULIFLOWER AND BROCCOLI WITH LEMON CAPER DRESSING robynmac / iStock / Getty Images Plus Twists place the broccoli and cauli- flower pieces and toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper. 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There is plenty of drama — and lessons to be learned. This remarkable story fuels their imaginations. All goes well at seders until the brisket, tzimmes and matzah kugels come to the table. Like typical American children, they live on macaroni Chocolate dipped matzah Ojimorena / iStock / Getty Images Plus and cheese, pasta, chicken fingers and French fries. They eat hamburgers, too, but only inside buns. Loaded with flour, none of these foods are appro- priate Passover fare. As the main course is served, it crushes me to see disappoint- ment on their faces. Worse yet, this is followed by a sudden dash to the kitchen to scrounge for foods they will eat: pecans, apples, raw carrots, even slices of cheese. None of these nibbles qualify as a main course. While the delicacies for the adults were prepared in advance, the food children eat is slapdash. It doesn’t make them feel special. Bec ause I’ve been a s frustrated as my grandchildren, I’ve created an alternate child- friendly menu calling for foods kids like to eat. For fun, I serve a vegetarian charcuterie tray, loaded with child-pleasing fruits and veggies. Chicken fingers made with potato starch and oven fried potatoes are such big hits, that the adults eat them, too. At dessert, no one can resist matzah dipped in choco- late and tossed with colorful sprinkles. Passover is as much for children as it is for adults. Where would seders be without children? Who would answer the Four Questions or find the afikomen? Call me a grandmother who spoils her grandchildren, but when dinner is served, it’s worth it to see smiles on their faces as they relish the foods I’ve made just for them. VEGETARIAN CHARCUTERIE TRAY | PAREVE Serves 4-6 Strawberries, cut in half Grapes, red or green Cucumbers, cut in circles Carrots, cut in circles Apples, cut in slices Clementine sections Bananas, cut in circles Cherry tomatoes, cut in half Walnuts or pecans, toasted at 350 degrees F, and cooled Start with an oblong tray or platter with these dimensions or close to them: 13 inches by 6 inches. Arrange the foods above, in lines parallel to the tray’s shorter side. For eye appeal, arrange foods in lines of opposing colors. For See Kids, Page 12 Name: Carlino’s Specialty Foods Width: 9.25 in Depth: 5.5 in Color: Black plus one Comment: Jewish Exponent Passover Wishing You a Joyous Passover Passover Menu Now Available In-Store And Online At: www.carlinosmarket.com 610.649.4046 2616 E. County Line Rd. Ardmore, PA 19003 128 W. 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Equipment: 3 frying pans inch ovenproof pan, such as Move the baking pan to make things go faster, if you Pyrex the oven. Turn the potatoes have them every few minutes. Bake for 70 Olive oil for coating the pan, minutes, or until the potatoes 4 skinless, boneless Chicken fingers Максим Крысанов / iStock / Getty Images Plus are brown and crisp. Serve chicken thighs plus ½ cup immediately. The recipe can tongs, turn over the chicken lid. (Or you can use a heatproof 3 cups potato starch 6 large russet potatoes fingers and fry them. If the oil bowl that fits over a pot. Use 3 teaspoons kosher salt 1½ teaspoons garlic powder sputters and is too hot, turn foil to cover the bowl.) Name: Montifiore Bring the water to a fast down the flame. Add more oil, 3 large eggs Width: 3.625 in if needed. When the chicken is simmer and melt the choco- 1 cup olive oil, or more Depth: 7.375 in if needed fluffy and crunchy, move it to late. Remove the top of the the paper towel-lined platters. double boiler from the boiling Color: Black Rinse the chicken under Repeat with remaining pieces water. Bring the chocolate to Comment: - cold water. Dry it completely of chicken. Serve immediately. room temperature, while still Ad Number: - on paper towels. With a sharp This recipe can be made 2 covered. knife, cut off and discard as days in advance and refrig- Preheat your oven to 350 much fat as you can. It’s impos- erated, or it can be frozen. degrees F. Break each piece of sible to remove all of the fat When ready to serve, bring matzah into four equal strips without cutting your fingers, the chicken fingers to room along the perforation lines. so please don’t do that. temperature, and warm them Break each strip into 3 rectan- Cut the chicken thighs into in a preheated 350 degree F gles. Move the rectangles to strips about 1-inch wide. The oven until sizzling, about 10-15 a rimmed baking pan. Place strips won’t look identical. minutes. rectangles in a single layer There may some short, stumpy without overlapping. pieces. Use them, too. Even CHOCOLATE-DIPPED Bake for 5 minutes, or until frozen chicken fingers vary in MATZAH | DAIRY OR PAREVE the matzah is warm but not size and shape. Yield: 24 pieces browning. Remove it from Place two layers of paper the oven and cool it to room towels onto two platters. 1 pound semisweet temperature. In a bowl, preferably with Cover 2 baking sheets with chocolate, (two 8-ounce a flat bottom, place the potato parchment paper. packages) starch, salt and garlic powder. Give the melted chocolate 2 pieces of matzah Mix it together well with a a stir. Submerge the matzah 2 pieces of parchment fork. rectangles in chocolate on both paper Crack the eggs into another sides, letting the excess choco- 1 cup, or more, of bowl. Whisk to blend. multi-colored sprinkles late drip back into the pot. 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Cover it with the ready to serve. l Kosher salt to taste Continued from Page 10 Montefi ore Cemetery Company Wishing you a very Happy and Healthy Passover from our family to yours Since its founding, Montefi ore has honored and kept the traditions of Judaism. C 12 MARCH 11, 2021 C JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM P ASSOVER P ALATE Fondue, Fun-do! KERI WHITE | JE FOOD COLUMNIST PASSOVER IS A joyous holiday and, in addition to the important rituals it involves, it delivers festivity and fun. With that in mind, we off er a dessert idea that brings with it a casual joviality, while remaining kosher for Passover. COVID-19 is still among us, so the gathering this year may be another small one. And with that consideration, fondue in its traditional form is far too communal for the world we now live in, but that is easily addressed with an individual serving for each guest. Th e other great benefi t of fondue is that once you create the “wow” of a sauce, the rest takes care of itself with minimal eff ort — store bought kosher for Passover sponge cake cut in to bite-sized squares, Passover cookies, macaroons, cut-up fruit, nuts, matzah, et cetera, are all wonderful dipped in any of these fondues. Both the chocolate and the caramel can be made as pareve versions, but I’m a purist with the crème anglaise and would keep to the traditional version using cream. CHOCOLATE FONDUE Serves 4 generously 1 cup milk (or an alternative version, cook’s choice) ¼ cup cocoa powder 12 ounces chocolate (chips or a bar coarsely chopped) In a medium saucepan, mix the milk and cocoa powder with a whisk. Scald the mixture until small bubbles appear around the edges — do not boil, but bring it just short of that point. Remove it from the heat, and pour the choco- late into the pan. Shake it a bit to make sure all chocolate is submerged, and cover the pot for about 3 minutes. Remove the cover and use See Fondue, Page 14 isa-7777 / iStock / Getty Images Plus Th e recipe below calls for milk; I generally use regular whole milk when I make it. You can also use water, coconut milk or any non-dairy milk of your choosing if a pareve dish is desired. Th e resulting texture will vary; the more fat in the liquid, the thicker the fondue will be — water will deliver the thinnest sauce, while heavy cream or coconut cream will make a thicker, richer version. Th is is defi nitely a bitter- sweet fondue; if a sweeter, less-intense version is preferred, you can add ¼ cup of sugar with the cocoa, or use some or all milk chocolate. Name: McCaff rey’s Supermarkets Width: 5.5 in Depth: 11 in Color: Black Comment: Passover Palate Ad Number: 00093803 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 13 P assover P alate Fondue Continued from Page 13 margouillatphotos / iStock / Getty Images Plus a whisk to mix the choco- late until it is melted. If the chocolate does not fully melt, return to very low heat and stir constantly until smooth. Serve immediately, or set it aside and, when ready to serve, heat the fondue on the stove over very low flame (a double boiler is great for this step) or heat it in a microwave on 30% power until warm. Take great care with this step to avoid burning the chocolate. Divide the chocolate into dessert bowls or cups and serve with dippers. CARAMEL FONDUE Serves 4 generously Caramel is one of those things that is so much more than the sum of its parts — it’s nothing short of edible liquid gold. Traditionally, it is made with cream and butter, but I have also created a coconut version, which is vegan/pareve. The recipe below provides both options. 1¼ cups sugar ½ cup water 1 cup heavy cream or 1 cup coconut cream 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons of coconut oil In a medium saucepan, melt the sugar and water over medium heat and let it boil until caramelized; this will take about 10 minutes. 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Her strong work ethic fueled her as she earned a master’s degree and a license in nursing home administration, and her kind demeanor earned her the trust and friendship of residents, staff and the commu- nity. She loved monkeys, chocolate and golfing with her parents in Boca Raton, Florida. & & TAY-SACHS CANAVAN CANAVAN SCREENING SCREENING Consult with the designer to explore your style options JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 19 O pinion Editor’s Letter One Year of COVID, a Mournful Milestone BY LIZ SPIKOL I WENT BACK to my office in the Jewish Community Services Building in Center City the other day to pick something up, and I noticed an old editorial lineup document sitting on my desk. My last full workday in that office was March 12, 2020 — exactly one year ago — and I remember not taking much home with me when I left; I assumed I’d be back in a couple months. Being there now is like seeing a prepandemic world set in amber — my wall calendar still displays March 2020, March magazines sit on the desk and that editorial lineup is from March 19, with the list of stories we were working on for that issue. One of those, slugged “DOCTORS,” talked about COVID in the future tense: “How are doctors and medical professionals preparing for coronavirus?” We allocated 800 words to that story. We could never have imagined how many words we’d devote to the subject in the months to come. Now, as the nation marks this imprecise anniversary, we offer a few more words about how the novel coronavirus has changed our lives. It’s something a number of news outlets are doing this week, and I had an opportunity to speak with fellow journalists in other cities about how they were handling the coverage. Turns out, a lot depends on where you live. For instance, one editor I spoke with felt it wouldn’t be right to focus on COVID deaths in their special issue because there hadn’t been many in the community her publication serves. She felt she had to respond to the readers’ experience; for them, COVID has meant an increase in isolation and loneliness, a heavier reliance on technology, and changes in relationships. She didn’t feel it would be appropriate to be mournful. Here in Philadelphia, in contrast, we’ve had a number of COVID-related deaths, as we’ve chronicled in our “Those We’ve Lost” series. (At first, I wasn’t even sure if we should make it an ongoing series. Now we’re on Part VII.) Our goal with the series was to make sure every person in the Jewish commu- nity who has died from COVID is recognized as a unique human being rather than merely as a data point. We know we haven’t covered everyone, but staff writers Sophie Panzer and Jesse Bernstein have done a wonderful job with the infor- mation available to us. In this issue, we add two more names to our series and remember those we memorialized in the last year. Still, as my far-f lung colleague reminded me, the COVID story is not all about death. When I asked the Exponent crew what the focus of our coverage should be for this issue, Bernstein pointed out that while many people have died, many more are still alive and grappling with the way our lives have been upended. In this issue, he writes about the changes the pandemic has wrought, and how we’ve adapted to them. I’ve noticed that when most people talk about the changes, they focus more on the daily irritations than the devas- tating large-scale effects. I do it myself — I’ll be annoyed by a Zoom glitch or the fog on my glasses while wearing a mask, and I have to laugh: This is what’s bothering me? I’m lucky to be alive, to be healthy, to have a job; I’m one of the fortunate people in this histor- ical moment, and yet here I am, fuming because someone is not on mute. I suppose the human inclination toward aggra- vation is simply hard-wired. And kvetching is part of our birthright. But it’s also true that when there’s so much pain and loss, it’s simply more sensible, and socially acceptable, to complain of minor afflictions than to howl with grief. In fact, in just a few weeks, the Exponent staff will go back to working in our office — and return to an approxima- tion of normalcy. I’ll take down my March calendar, recycle those magazines and prep a story lineup for an April issue. I’ll head to the corner store at lunchtime for an egg sandwich and drink the vending machine coffee during an afternoon slump. I’ll fight traffic on my way home and resent the person who cuts me off. Assuming the worst truly is over, we’ll be tempted to put the horror of this year behind us and move on; Jews know plenty about starting over without self-pity. But a year like this leaves scars, and some of us will need more help than others, whether pragmatically or emotionally. We all respond differently to trauma and dislo- cation; empathy, not judgment, is what’s required. Whatever happens, the Exponent will be here for you. Stick with us, reach out, stay well and be safe. We hope to see you — in person — real soon. l Medical Dramas Perpetuate Orthodox Stereotypes BY SHOSHANA GOTTLIEB ON FEB. 9, the Jewish internet was shocked by a scene from the TV medical drama “Nurses.” The shocking part should be that a clip from a 20 MARCH 11, 2021 subpar Canadian medical drama only airing on NBC because of a COVID-induced lack of programming managed to go semiviral. But no. The video went viral because of what many believed was an anti-Semitic portrayal of a Chasidic patient. In the clip, a Chasidic man (with the worst fake payes I’ve ever seen) is told that he’d need a bone grafted from a dead body inserted into his leg. “A dead goyim leg,” his father says, “from anyone. An Arab? A woman?” “Or God forbid an Arab woman,” one of the nurses retorts. She later uses a story about King David to help convince the patient to have the procedure done because obviously her Christian under- standing of the story would be enough to convince the man to forego his (inaccurate) religious beliefs. This scene would never happen. For starters, the correct phrase would be “goyishe leg,” as a Chasidic man would surely know. Additionally, it’s highly unlikely that hearing a story about King David would change a Chasidic Jew’s JEWISH EXPONENT religious convictions. But most important, Orthodox Jews have zero issues with accepting organs, or bones, or anything from non-Jews. This scene is frustrating because it relies on harmful, grossly incorrect stereotypes about Chasidim. People were enraged, and rightfully so. NBC ultimately pulled the episode from its online platform, and while the show’s original producers have apologized in a statement, NBC has not. Actually, this clip shouldn’t come as a surprise. On medical dramas, too many episodes have featured some sort of religious Jew refusing medical treatment, essentially trying to martyr themselves. Take, for example, the first season of “Grey’s Anatomy.” One of the storylines on its eighth episode revolves around an Orthodox woman who refuses to get a porcine heart valve replacement because they want to put a “pig, a freaking non-kosher, treif mammal, into my chest, into my heart! The very essence of See Gottlieb, Page 24 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM O pinion A Step Toward Religious Jews Should Embrace American Freedom in Israel Evangelical Friendship and Support MID-ATLANTIC MEDIA EDITORIAL BOARD LAST WEEK, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that non-Or- thodox conversions must be recognized for purposes of citizenship under Israel’s Law of Return. The decision was a welcome step toward making the Jewish state a land of religious freedom for Jews. Unfortunately, the realities of Israeli politics could lead to the ruling being overturned by the Knesset. The court decision — which came as a surprise to most — related to cases that had been on hold for 15 years, as the court waited for the government to address the issue through legisla- tion. Finally recognizing the futility of waiting, the court ruled. But even though the ruling is significant for Law of Return purposes, it did nothing to loosen the haredi Rabbinate’s stranglehold on personal status issues in the Jewish state. Israel’s Law of Return, which confers a fast track to citizen- ship, defines a Jew as “one who was born to a Jewish mother or converted, while not being a member of another religion.” The court held that conver- sion in Israel under Reform or Conservative auspices met that test. As noted by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman in Bloomberg Opinion, “The question before the court was not whether Conservative or Reform conversions were religiously valid, but whether they counted socioculturally as ‘Jewish.’” The court concluded that for those purposes, non-Or- thodox conversions counted. Nonetheless, according to Feldman, the ruling was a signal “that the country’s legal elites are tired of deferring to the de facto Orthodox monopoly over defining Judaism in Israel,” and a forceful nod by the justices “in support of intra-Jewish JEWISHEXPONENT.COM egalitarianism.” The ruling was largely celebrated in the Diaspora, where the issue of religious pluralism is a big deal. In Israel, however, the issue has less currency. So it was primarily the religious and political leaders in the country’s haredi community that reacted most strongly — and their criti- cism was stinging. Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau said those who undergo Reform or Conservative conver- sions “are not Jews.” And according to Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzak Yosef: “What the Reform and Conservatives call ‘conversion’ is nothing but a forgery of Judaism.” Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, of the haredi Shas party, pledged to overturn the decision through legislation, since it constitutes “a mortal blow to the Jewish character of the state” and the “complete demoli- tion of the status quo [on religious affairs in Israel] that has been upheld for over 70 years.” The “status quo” to which Deri referred dates back to a time when Israel’s character, population and politics were much different than they are today. Much has changed since 1948. Non-Orthodox streams of Judaism account for the vast majority of the world’s Jewish population, and their influ- ence is growing in the majority secular Jewish state. That is an issue Israel will have to address as it works to sustain its foundational commitment to being both Jewish and democratic. In the meantime, a move toward religious freedom and religious tolerance is a good thing. Last week’s Supreme Court ruling is a step in the right direction. It is something to be celebrated. l Mid-Atlantic Media’s editorial board is composed of media owners and journalists from Washington, D.C., Maryland and Philadelphia. BY WILLIAM WANGER IN A RECENT ISSUE of the Jewish Exponent, there was a review of the new documen- tary “’Til Kingdom Come,” which investigates American evangelical Christian support for Israel and which screened last month at the Gershman Jewish Film Festival in Philadelphia. It sounds as though the filmmaker, Maya Zinshtein, could have benefited from doing more research, as the film apparently simplisti- cally asserts that the reason evangelicals support Israel financially and otherwise, and show warmth for the Jewish People, is to convert Jews, and prepare for the rapture and Armageddon, during which Jews will be asked to convert to Christianity. For a more balanced view, Zinshtein should have looked at pro-evangelical sources, like David Brog’s “Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State.” In that book, the Jewish author states the primary reason for American evangelical support for Israel, and their love for the Jewish people, is that God said, in Genesis, that “He will bless those who bless the Jews, and curse those who curse the Jews; and that all peoples on Earth will be blessed through the Jewish People.” That’s it. Oh, and evangeli- cals believe that God actually said what is written in Genesis (and, unlike most Jews, they JEWISH EXPONENT can cite the specific Torah chapter and verse), and they believe that the post- Holocaust watchwords “never again” obligate those modern Righteous Gentiles to demon- strate that “never again” is not a mere platitude. I am a Zionist, a pro-Israel advocate and a proud Jewish American who was brought up in a Conservative Jewish home. For decades, I have worked with evangelical groups, including Christians United for Israel and the Delaware- based Olive Tree Ministries, on a multitude of pro-Israel- related matters. In addition, my business life has brought me into close and regular contact with evangelicals. Among other things, evangelicals showed me how to bring God into nearly every aspect of our modern lives, from reading (Old Testament, in my honor) prayers before board meetings, to treating employees as family, to humbly performing charitable acts and tithing, all to better the lives of their neighbors (many of whom are recent immigrants) and directly support their greater community. While, perhaps, my Judaism might also have taught me those things, it was my interaction with Old Testament-steeped evangelicals that brought them home. Moreover, on more than one occasion, I have sadly felt more aligned with my eva ngelical friends than with my Reform Jewish co-religion- ists on matters involving Israel’s security, including the Golan Heights; Israel’s legal and the Jewish people’s ances- tral rights to a united Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria; calling out Palestinian violence and “play to slay” policies; and demanding that Israel’s actions be measured by the same moral and legal standards that the world applies to other nations. The number of evangelicals who regularly write and visit legis- lators advocating on pro-Israel matters, travel to Israel (even during the intifadas) and contribute to pro-Israel causes dwarfs that of most of the greater American Jewish community. At none of the CUFI “Nights to Honor Israel” or in any of my other interac- tions with evangelicals was my conversion, “tribula- tions,” Armageddon or the rapture ever mentioned or implied. Rather, I have seen Israel honored, and Jews and Judaism venerated. Unlike the people interviewed in the documentary, I am not uncomfortable with evangel- ical pro-Israel support and philosemitism. Would some evangelicals like Jews to convert to Christianity? Of course. Do some support the Jewish return to Israel to hasten Jesus’ return to Earth? Surely. Do some evangelicals believe that I will not go to heaven because I don’t accept Jesus as my savior? Yes. My response is: “So what?” I know that the hearts of some of my evangelical friends truly ache because they fear I will not go to heaven. Clearly, Jews and American evangeli- cals have different theologies. I simply don’t agree with them; and will worry about the after- life when I get there. That’s what comes through my knowledge of my religion, its beliefs and appreciation of its particular teachings, laws and values. Frankly, I say leave it to God to sort out whose theology is true, offers a better path to promoting human goodness and provides a better value system. As Dennis Prager and See Wanger, Page 24 MARCH 11, 2021 21 L ifestyle /C ulture Make-Ahead Passover Menu F OO D LINDA MOREL | JE FOOD COLUMNIST PREPARING FOOD for Passover this year is a challenge. The holiday begins at sundown on Saturday, March 27 — just as Shabbat ends. For Jews who observe the Sabbath, there has never been a time when a make-ahead menu is needed more. To accommodate this juxtaposition of Shabbat and Passover, planning ahead is crucial. Every detail must be organized earlier than usual. Before cooking can commence, many Jews rid their homes of chametz, foods with leavening agents, which are forbidden during Passover. Each family decides how thorough a job is required and how long that takes. This first step must be figured into the schedule. Many holiday foods can be frozen, such as chicken soup, matzah balls, some meats and most desserts. Freezing foods means starting to cook days or even weeks in advance. No matter what, seder cooking should get underway by Thursday, or no later than Friday morning. The seder’s ceremonial foods — gefilte fish, charoset and hard-boiled eggs — easily last for a couple of days or more in the refrigerator. But the main course requires expertise. Because Passover seders call for a festive menu, you want to accentuate eye appeal and flavor. But right Name: House of Kosher Supermarket Width: 3.625 in Depth: 5.5 in Color: Black plus one Comment: JE-FF Program Shop your groceries, meat, fish, and fresh takeout online and we'll deliver your order to your door. HOUSEOFKOSHER.COM STORE HOURS Shop online at Houseofkosher.com or download our FREE HOUSE OF KOSHER APP 215.677.8100 9806 BUSTLETON AVE. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19115 22 MARCH 11, 2021 Trendy_Rowdy / iStock / Getty Images Plus before the seder begins, you ovenproof pan, such as Pyrex will not have time to chop produce or put the finishing Olive oil for coating the touches on dishes the way you roasting pan, usually do. plus 2 tablespoons, Like a professional chef, plus 1 tablespoon select colorful marinated 6 chicken legs and 6 salads. Once they’re assembled, chicken thighs with you don’t have to think about bones and skin on them again. Opt for main 2 garlic cloves, plus 5 courses that can withstand 4½ tablespoons fresh lemon reheating while still tasting juice delicious. Hot foods made 2 teaspoons dried basil in sauces, casseroles, elegant leaves, crumbled stews and one-pot meals Kosher salt to taste brimming with meat, vegeta- Freshly ground pepper to bles and potatoes are the most taste successful. 1 pound small red potatoes, With a make-ahead menu, about 2 inches in you merely pull ready-to-serve diameter, cut into quarters salads from the refrigerator 6 Italian plum tomatoes, cut and heat up a couple of entrees. into quarters And, seamlessly, dinner is ¼ cup dry white wine, such as sauvignon blanc ready. SHOP THE HOUSE FROM YOUR HOME. Strictly Kosher Brisket with vegetables and fine herbs Mince 2 garlic cloves and place them in a small bowl. Using the blade of a chef ’s knife, smash the remaining 5 garlic cloves. Place them in a second bowl. Reserve the two garlic bowls. To the bowl of minced garlic, add lemon juice, basil and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Whisk everything together until well combined. Brush both sides of the chicken with some of this mixture and reserve the rest. Sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper. Place the potatoes and tomatoes in a medium-sized bowl. Add the 5 smashed garlic gloves, white wine and the remaining tablespoon of oil. Sprinkle in ⅛ teaspoon of salt. Toss the ingredients until well coated. Arrange the potatoes and tomatoes around the or pinot grigio chicken pieces. With a spatula, CHICKEN CASSEROLE WITH TOMATOES AND POTATOES | Preheat your oven to 450 scrape all of the garlic and oil MEAT into the casserole. degrees F. Roast the chicken for 15 Yield: 12 pieces of chicken Generously coat a minutes. Baste it with pan Serves 8-10 10-inch-by-15-inch ovenproof pan with olive oil. Place the Equipment: 10-inch-by-15-inch chicken inside skin side up. See Food, Page 24 JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 23 L ifestyle /C ulture Food Continued from Page 22 juices while roasting. Drizzle on the remaining lemon-gar- lic-basil mixture from the first bowl. Roast another 15-20 minutes, or until juices run clear — not pink — when the chicken is pierced with a knife. The recipe can be served immediately. If making it ahead, cool it to room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to two days. When reheating, remove it from the refrigerator two hours in advance. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and reheat uncovered for 20 minutes or until the sauce in the casserole bubbles. BRISKET WITH VEGETABLES AND FINE HERBS | MEAT Serves 8-10 Kosher salt to taste Freshly ground pepper 5 pounds brisket, trimmed of most of the fat 3 tablespoons olive oil, or more, if needed 2 onions 6-8 carrots 3 large potatoes ½ pound mushrooms, sliced 1 teaspoon dried rosemary needles, crushed 1 teaspoon dried sage 1 teaspoon dried thyme 2 cups beef broth 2 cups dry red wine Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of the brisket. In a large heavy pot, heat the oil on a medium flame. Place the brisket in the pot, fat side down. Brown it on both sides. Move the brisket to a platter and reserve. Turn off the flame and remove the pot. Dice the onions, carrots and potatoes. Return the pot to a medium flame. Add the onions, carrots, potatoes and mushrooms. Stir to combine. Add more oil at any time, if needed. Sprinkle in the rosemary, sage and thyme. Stir to combine. Add more salt if needed. Sauté until the onion and herbs are fragrant, about 3-5 minutes. Add 1 cup of broth to the pot. Return the brisket to the pot. Pour in the remaining broth and all of the wine. Stir gently to combine the ingre- dients. Place the lid on the pot and simmer on a low flame for 3-4 hours, until the brisket is soft when pierced with a utensil-sized fork. Let the contents of the pot cool to warm. Remove the brisket from the pot and cut it into slices against the grain. If serving immediately, ½ cup olive oil place the brisket on a platter ¾ cup red wine vinegar with a deep rim. Ladle some Kosher salt to taste of the sauce on top. Place the remaining sauce in a gravy Salad boat or bowl. If refrigerating or Dice the celery, red pepper, freezing, let the sauce cool to onion, carrots and zucchini. room temperature. Move the Place them in a large mixing brisket and sauce to one large bowl. Add the olives and dill. plastic container and cover with its lid. Reheat the brisket Salad Dressing and sauce before serving. In a medium-sized bowl, add the sugar, olive oil, vinegar MARINATED SPRING SALAD | and salt. Whisk until the ingre- PAREVE dients are well combined and Serves 8 the sugar is dissolved. Pour the salad dressing 3 celery stalks over the vegetables. Toss the vegetables until well coated. 1 small red pepper Cover the bowl and refrig- 1 small onion erate. Marinate the salad for 3 carrots 24 hours, tossing the vegeta- 1 small zucchini bles several times. Remove the ¼ cup pitted Kalamata salad from the refrigerator an olives hour before serving and place 2 teaspoons dill, minced it in an attractive bowl. l 1 teaspoon sugar Gottlieb Wanger Continued from Page 20 my being!” (Seriously, I will never forget that line.) Or on the fourth season of “House,” episode 12, in which House claims that a Jewish woman’s decision to become Chasidic is a sign of mental illness, related to her undiag- nosed disease. Or the third season of “Private Practice,” the ninth episode, which depicts an Orthodox couple whose Orthodoxy doesn’t let them use birth control, so one of the doctors secretly prescribes the wife birth control pills and tells her they are iron pills for her “anemia.” Why are these shows glori- fying medical malpractice and the denial of religious rights? “House” outright equates being religious with mental illness, Continued from Page 20 and a throwaway line in the “Grey’s Anatomy” episode asks why anybody would bother with Orthodoxy — “why couldn’t you be plain old Reform like everyone else we know?” In each case, Orthodoxy is portrayed as unreasonable, as a conflict that must be overcome. So many things about these episodes make me angry. Why do none of these Jewish characters ever call and consult their rabbis? That would be the first thing most frum people would do when facing a complicated medical or ethical issue. And why are these shows making broad, sweeping, uninformed claims about things like kashrut or the use of birth control in STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER We are a diverse community. The views expressed in the signed opinion columns and let- ters 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. 24 MARCH 11, 2021 religious communities? These examples aren’t as dangerous as the clip from “Nurses,” which portrays religious Jews as horribly Islamophobic and misog- ynistic — a storyline that surely doesn’t help Chasidim in a climate that is already so hostile toward them. But each of these episodes frame Orthodoxy as backward and unwilling to change, and frame Orthodox people as fanatics willing to die for their bigoted beliefs. The writers fail to under- stand Orthodox Judaism while relying on Orthodox Jews as a cheap plot device. Maybe they look at the huge number of mitzvot that are observed by Orthodox Jews and conclude that it’s a rigid, unchangeable structure. They don’t under- stand that breaking Shabbat to save a life is not only allowed but mandatory. In our tradition, there are only three sins you must die for committing: idolatry, murder JEWISH EXPONENT and adultery. The concept of pikuach nefesh (saving a life) overrides virtually every commandment. Judaism values the sanctity of human life over almost everything else. Your rabbi would encourage you to take a porcine valve or the bone graft. My mother likes to quote one of her favorite rabbis quite regularly. She says: We’re meant to live by our Judaism, not die by it. It’s about time these TV shows got that memo. I understand the need to write good TV and create conflict. I understand (although do not agree with) the desire for out-of-the-box, exotic charac- ters. But if you cannot construct a story without misunder- standing and misrepresenting an entire demographic of people, then it’s simply a story you have no right to tell. l Shoshanna Gottlieb is a writer, film fanatic and future Jewish educator. This was originally published by JTA. Rev. Jerry Falwell famously agreed, if American evangel- icals continue their current support for the State of Israel and continue to treat the Jewish people with love and kindness, we will accept Jesus, upon his return, as the messiah. That’s a fair deal. Judaism is laser-focused on the here and now, and values, most highly, how people behave rather than what they may think or believe. Today, in a dangerous and threatening world for Israel and the Jewish people, Am Yisrael need all the friends we can get. If, “’Til Kingdom Come,” American evangeli- cals continue to honor and support their Jewish brothers and sisters, and a safe, strong and vibrant Jewish State with secure and recognized borders, that’s good enough for me. l William Wanger is chair of the PA/ SNJ chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Wish Your Friends & Family A HAPPY PASSOVER in the Jewish Exponent Be a part of our March 25 th holiday edition. DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 TH $ Best Wishes $ A SWEET & JOYOUS Passover to all for a Happy Passover Happy Passover YOUR NAME N C 45 D YOUR NAME ESIG $ YOUR NAME ESIG D 45 D D $ N D B 75 N A 95 ESIG N ESIG Warm Passover Greetings From YOUR NAME – Personal Greetings Only – PLEASE RUN MY GREETING IN YOUR HOLIDAY ISSUE. 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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 25 L ifestyle /C ulture Ruth Bader Ginsburg Birthday Tribute Will Focus on Judge’s Love of Opera M USIC SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF RUTH BADER GINSBURG always wanted to be a singer. “If I had any talent in the world, any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva,” she told a group of law students at Georgetown University in 2015. Her singing career didn’t pan out, but the Supreme Court justice and feminist icon remained an avid opera fan until her death in September. On March 15, in honor of what would have been Ginsburg’s 88th birthday, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Opera Philadelphia and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will host “For the Love of Opera: Celebrating RBG’s 88th Birthday.” The event will from artists who met her and noticed the common themes in her favorite performances. “There are several articles written about love for opera, but especially operas whose plotlines run parallel to what she was fighting for in her life,” he said. The museum partnered with Opera Philadelphia and the Lowell Milken Center to select music and organize the program. Grant Loehnig, head of music staff at Opera Philadelphia, helped make the selections and also provided piano accompaniment for the recorded performances. He said the organizers knew one of Ginsburg’s favorite operas was Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro,” and they included an aria featuring Despina, the strong female character in his “Cosî Fan Tutte.” “We want it to be a celebra- tion of her and her love of opera, and we hope that comes through with the joy of the Each of the selections has something to do with either a theme in law or in social justice.” PETER KAZARAS feature recorded performances of Ginsburg’s favorite arias as well as commentary from opera professionals who knew her. Ginsburg was a longtime member of NMAJH. In 2019, she became the 21st inductee into the museum’s Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame. Given her connection to the museum and the Jewish community, the staff knew they wanted to organize an event recognizing the first birthday after her death. Dan Samuels, public programs manager at NMAJH, began researching her passion for opera. He encountered stories 26 MARCH 11, 2021 performances,” he said. Peter Kazaras, director of opera at UCLA, helped select the music and will host the event. “Each of the selections has something to do with either a theme in law or in social justice, and whether that’s a contested will from ‘Gianni Schicci,’ or whether that’s buying someone out of a contract in ‘The Elixir of Love,’ or whether that be issue of punitive immigration laws in the aria from ‘The Consul,’ those are the issues we’re dealing with here,” he said. Kazaras met Ginsburg at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he has Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at her 2019 induction ceremony for the Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame. Photo by Jessi Melcer Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opera costume on display in “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” at NMAJH Photo by Jessi Melcer. “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” is organized and circulated by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. directed four operas. He said she would come to the parties after the shows and speak with delighted performers about how much she enjoyed their work. “For those of us who were in the business and, you know, got to meet her, I have to say it was astonishing the details she remembered,” he said. “She remembered who had done what where, not only who had sung, but who had directed, who had conducted — all of that stuff was pretty much at her fingertips.” The program features perfor- mances by tenor Joshua Blue, baritone Norman Garrett, soprano Michelle Rice and JEWISH EXPONENT soprano Ashley Marie Robillard with piano accompaniment by Loehnig and Stephen Karr. The songs were recorded in NMAJH’s Dell Theater and UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. Commentary about Ginsburg’s relationship with opera will be offered by Francesca Zambello, the Washington National Opera’s stage director and artistic director, and Lawrence Brownlee, tenor and artistic adviser to Opera Philadelphia. Brownlee shared the stage with Ginsburg in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” at WNO in 2016. She played the speaking role of “The Duchess,” who gives lovers permission to marry. “For the Love of Opera” will air via Facebook Live on the Facebook pages of NMAJH, Opera Philadelphia and the Lowell Milken Center at 8 p.m. EST. The production will also be available on-demand after the event on Facebook, NMAJH’s website and the Opera Philadelphia Channel. l spanzer@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0729 JEWISHEXPONENT.COM L ifestyle /C ulture Comedian Talks About Life With Tourette Syndrome ARTS SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF AS A TEENAGER, Pamela Rae Schuller felt like having Tourette syndrome (colloqui- ally known as Tourette’s) made her a waste of space. As an adult and professional stand-up comedian, she loves her disability. “Tourette’s can be hard, and frustrating and even painful. It can also add incredible things to my life, if I am brave enough to allow it,” she said. She spoke about her journey to self-love through humor during her talk “What Makes Me Tic: Comedy, Disability, and the Inclusive Community.” Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia and RespectAbility hosted the event in honor of Jewish Disability Acceptance, Awareness and Inclusion Month and Jewish Disability Advocacy Month. “Every February, we see our goal is to bring aware- ness about disabilities and the importance of advocacy for disability rights,” said Lisa Ney, director of programs and services for persons living with disabilities at JFCS. “And this program is in honor of the culmination of a month-long programming that we’ve had towards this goal.” Schuller explained that Tourette is a neurological disorder that causes her to experience tics, or movements and noises she can’t control. These can include moving her fingers and toes, winking uncontrollably, tensing her stomach muscles and barking. “I like to explain Tourette’s as like a fence in your brain. Well, in my fence, there is a tiny piece missing. So signals are seeping through that I didn’t mean to send,” she said. She said she had the worst diagnosed case of Tourette in the country as a teenager. She JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Karen Beth Staller, left, provides ASL interpretation as Pamela Rae Schuller discusses disability advocacy. I like to explain Tourette’s as like a fence in your brain. Well, in my fence, there is a tiny piece missing. So signals are seeping through that I didn’t mean to send.” PAMELA RAE SCHULLER often lost control over her body and injured herself, whether through rupturing her own appendix or throwing her head back so hard she broke her neck. The physical injuries were not as painful as the emotional toll of exclusion. Peers and educators treated her as if she was nothing but a disturbance, and those who did include her seemed to consider it a chari- table act. She spent much of her youth feeling like she was a burden on her community. Moments that made her feel included and supported helped change her perspective. There was the time her peers walked out with her when a religious school teacher at her synagogue told her she was being disrup- tive and asked her to leave. There was also the math teacher who, instead of kicking her out of class when she started making noises, told her she sounded like a metronome and asked if she would like to write a song about math. She got excited about the idea, as did the rest of the class, and they ended up writing and recording a whole CD together with her tics included as background accompaniment. “And in that moment, this idea of inclusion shifted,” she said. “It stopped feeling like what people couldn’t do because I was there and started feeling like what people got to do because I was there.” Taking improv comedy classes in high school also led to a breakthrough. The concept of “Yes, and,” or the rule that improvisational actors cannot contradict each other’s reality, helped her discover her sense of humor and love for performance without having her Tourette constantly scrutinized. “When I would join the scene, flailing or barking or making noises, they ‘Yes, and-ed’ me,” she said. “I was getting laughs, and not because of Tourette’s, but because people were starting to see these other parts of me.” Comedy has helped her recognize the silliness of preju- dice, like when an eyebrow JEWISH EXPONENT Screenshot by Sophie Panzer which promotes mental health, wellness and resilience through creativity. She said it was important for people to move past “toler- ance,” a word that sounds like nails on a chalkboard to her, and embrace full inclusion. “Nobody wants to just be tolerated,” she said. “Every single person has value, and every single person has struggles and challenges, and we should be celebrating what each person brings to our community.” l waxer berated her for not trying hard enough to control her body right before audibly farting. In addition to her career as a comedian, Schuller has a master’s degree in child advocacy and policy and launched an initiative for spanzer@jewishexponent.com; Jewish teens called Here.Now, 215-832-0729 Name: WWDB AM 860 Width: 3.625 in Depth: 3.62 in Color: Black MARCH 11, 2021 27 T orah P ortion CAN DL E L IGHTIN G Assembly Required! BY RABBI ERIC MOLLO Parshat Vayak’heil-P’kudei PEOPLE DON’T COME fully assembled; they are built and broken, polished and sanded, hardened by experience, and softened by time. Every single one of us came into the world looking like the pieces inside of a box of Ikea furniture, yet to be twisted, prodded, hammered, glued and fashioned into an individual with increasingly more identifying characteristics. No two people are the same and none of us come with convenient, or even confusing, instruction manuals. When we were born, our parents didn’t have a clue what the future held, and only a vague idea of what we might become. We are constantly evolving vessels in need of nurturing parents, mentors, teachers and text tradi- tions to guide us through life’s many twists and turns. Ever growing, and ever changing, we merely forecast, and not foresee, what will become of us. Soon after the exodus from Egypt, the Israelites were asked to donate their most precious possessions to the cause of building a sacred dwelling for the God that rescued them from the hand of Pharaoh. In parshat Vayak’heil-P’kudei, the Israelites finally reckon with the mountain of donations mentioned earlier in the book of Exodus and the subsequent task of turning the gifts into something greater. Such a transformation was no small task, and we might liken the idea to Moses asking the Israelites to open every box in Ikea, tip out the pieces within and reassemble the resulting mass of mismatched bits and bobs into a place worthy of God’s presence. Thus, in Exodus chapter 36 we read, “Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person whom Adonai had endowed with skill, everyone who excelled in ability, to undertake the task and carry it out.” Just as the construction of the Mishkan required the best craftsman among the Israelites to bring the project to fruition, every single one of us also needs skilled instructors to hone and mold us into the best versions of ourselves. One chapter later, in Exodus 37 we read, “Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two-and-a-half cubits long, a cubit-and-a-half wide, and a cubit-and-a-half high. He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out; and he made a gold March 12 March 19 molding for it round about.” Everything in the Mishkan, except for planks of wood, was measured by whole cubits and yet each side of the ark is measured in half cubits. Moreover, the inside of the ark that practically no one ever saw had to be covered in gold as well. These seemingly impre- cise measurements and overly adorned features are further elucidated upon by Chananel Ben Chushiel, an 11th-century sage and student of the last Gaon who teaches, “This is the reason why the ark was encased in gold both from the inside and the outside. It is a symbol of the righteous and intelligent man who is described as such only if his internal character qualities reflect the external image he projects ... Just as the dimensions of the floor of the ark were two-and-a-half cubits in length and one-and-a-half cubits in width, resulting in a square area of four cubits, so the righteous person should remain constantly aware that the four elements (earth, fire, wind, and water) which make up his physicality should not become the sum total of his existence, but should be augmented liberally by the physical perfor- mance of good deeds such as caring for others ... The walls of the ark total 12 cubits when measuring the combined total of the exterior dimensions. The combined lengths of the walls totaled 7.5 cubits, whereas the combined length of the short walls totaled 4.5 cubits. Thus, the righteous person is expected to fulfill all 12 conditions set out in Psalm 15 as the neces- sary qualifications to sojourn in God’s holy tent, or on God’s holy mountain.” Psalm 15 “Adonai, who may sojourn in Your tent, who may dwell on Your holy mountain? 1. One who lives without blame 2. One who does what is right 3. One who acknowledges the truth in his heart 4. One whose tongue is not given to evil 5. One who has never done harm to his fellow 6. One who makes oaths to his neighbor 7. One who does not change his oaths 8. One for whom a contempt- ible man is abhorrent 9. One who honors those who fear Adonai 10. One who stands by his oath even to his hurt 11. One who has never lent 5:47 p.m. 6:54 p.m. money at interest 12. One who never accepted a bribe against the innocent The one who acts thus shall never be shaken. Like the miscellaneous parts within an IKEA box or the many ornamented struc- tures of the Mishkan, we must always strive to be worthy creations by actively seeking out equally worthy architects of character. As the Mishkan was exchanged for a Temple, and the Second Temple was built upon the First, and subsequent Temples were built around the world in place of the Second, so, too, are we built to improve upon the generations that came before until all that remains is a vision of the world redeemed by compassionate hands and selfless hearts. l Rabbi Eric Mollo is the rabbi of Temple B’nai B’rith in Wilkes-Barre. The Board of Rabbis 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. Be heard. Email your letters to the editor. letters@jewishexponent.com 28 MARCH 11, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM 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. Tara Cherwony: The Next Generation in the Fight Against Hunger JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY’S (JRA) warehouse once bustled with hundreds of volunteers for its monthly food packing and distribution. Now, that number has dwindled to a maximum of 25 people per shift as a safety precaution due to COVID-19. In the midst of an entire operational restructuring, committed volunteers, like 27-year-old Tara Cherwony, have stepped up to ensure that low-income clients still receive their kosher food packages. “With funding from the Jewish Federation [of Greater Philadelphia], I have seen the direct impact being made to fight food insecurity,” said Cherwony, a member of JRA’s board of directors and the Jewish Federation’s board of trustees. “When walking down the street, you never know who may be experiencing hunger.” Twenty-eight percent of Philadelphians have problems paying for food, according to a 2020 poll by The Pew Charitable Trusts. JRA received more than $200,000 in emergency funds over the past year from the Jewish Federation to expand its delivery days, hire additional employees to offset the loss in volun- teers, afford the rising costs in food and meet the growing rate of clients. A consistent volunteer prior to the pandemic, Cherwony increased her efforts during a time when JRA needed it most. Fueled by a passion to alleviate suffering, the recruitment coordinator of Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professionals travels from her University City apartment to the near-empty warehouse in the Northeast multiple times a month to help sort, pack and deliver. In addition, Cherwony chairs JRA’s Leadership Academy, which prepares young adults for leadership roles within the organization and to support its mission of combating hunger. “Tara’s enthusiasm for public service, passion for social change and dedica- tion to the Jewish community — and specifically JRA’s mission-driven work — make her an exceptional volunteer and board member,” said Jodi Roth-Saks, JRA’s executive director. “Oftentimes, small nonprofits like JRA lean on dedicated volunteers, like Tara, to deliver their vital programs and services to the community.” JRA is not the only organization to “lean” on Cherwony. Among her many leadership roles, Cherwony serves on the Drexel University Hillel board of directors, co-chairs a JEVS Human Services’ internship alumni group, and teaches at Beth Tikvah-B’Nai Jeshurun and Congregation Kol Ami. She is also a rising leader at the Jewish Federation, an organization that has “been present [her] whole life,” providing funding for “many experiences growing up,” such as BBYO, the Satell Teen Fellowship for Leadership and Social Activism, and JEVS Franklin C. Ash Summer Internship Program. Cherwony is also the campaign co-chair of NextGen, the Jewish Federation’s young leadership group. “Tara has been one of the Jewish Federation’s most reliable and enthusiastic leaders over the past few years. She is always eager to take the lead on new projects and gives her all to everything she takes on,” NextGen Director Max Moline said. “The breadth of her leadership throughout the Philadelphia Jewish community is truly impressive and inspirational, and we’re lucky to have her here.” One of Cherwony’s most memorable projects was during NextGen’s Leadership Development Program. For her capstone, she organized a group to make 300 kosher meals for homebound older adults through KleinLife’s Cook for a Friend program. JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JRA Leadership Academy alumni volunteer outside the warehouse. From left: Tara Cherwony, Elena Miller, Ethan Pensak and Ben Shechtman Courtesy of Elvera Gurevich Tara Cherwony Courtesy of Craig Ostroff “When my grandfather passed away in 2018, my grandmother was able to get some pre-made meals from this program while she settled back into her ‘new normal,’” Cherwony said. “It was so nice bringing people together to do a mitzvah, especially knowing the direct impact it can make.” The Jewish Federation granted KleinLife about $220,000 in emergency funds throughout the pandemic, mainly to meet its escalating demand of aging clients who need food assistance. Due to the pandemic, the Jewish Federation’s agency partners reported a 185% increase in people relying on subsidized, home-deliv- ered food and a 27% increase in the cost to provide food packages. Determined to make an enduring impact on the Jewish community, Cherwony gives the gift of her time and her dollars. Cherwony is a founding member of the Levin Society, a group created during the global crisis by young trailblazers who make an annual contribution of $2,500 or more to the Jewish Federation. “It’s a way for me to pay it forward,” Cherwony said. “Increasing my annual contribution and becoming a founding member of the Levin Society was something I decided to do to further show my commitment to the Jewish Federation and hopefully encourage other young professionals to prioritize their philanthropic giving to the organization.” JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 29 C ommunity / mazel tovs ANNIVERSARY SHARE your engagement, wedding, birth, Bar/Bat Mitzvah announcement and any other simcha on both jewishexponent.com and the weekly Jewish Exponent newspaper for ... FREE. ABRAMS Marvin and Toby Abrams of Huntingdon Valley celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on March 11. Sharing in their celebration are their children, grandchildren, extended family and many friends. Photo by Kayla and Nancy Rowland J E W I S H E X P O N E N T . C O M / S U B M I T - M A Z E L - T O V COMMUNITYBRIEFS VFI Hires Local Resident as Campus Director VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL announced March 4 that it hired Philadelphia resident Mallory Kovit as the director of its campus program. The program brings Birthright Israel alumni from colleges across the United States back to Israel to volunteer on Israel Defense Forces bases. Founded in 1982, VFI partners with the Israeli organization Sar-El to recruit, process and prepare American volunteer. During the pandemic, IDF bases have been closed to foreign volunteers, but VFI has allowed students to apply without signing up for specific dates. Kovit is the program director at Greater Philly Hillel’s Jewish Graduate Student Network and was previously Hillels of Westchester’s program and engagement director. She earned her master’s in nonprofit management from Gratz College and holds a bachelor’s from Stony Brook University. “I love learning through experiences, especially when it comes to Israel,” Kovit said. “I love VFI’s mission and their commitment to bringing people to Israel to volunteer, especially young people. It is important to have these meaningful personal experiences with Israeli soldiers and to build relationships.” Genealogy Conference Slated for August Opens Registration The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ 41st annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, which is slated for Aug. 2-5 in Philadelphia, announced that event registration is now open. The conference will feature more than 100 speakers, with more than 250 sessions covering virtu- ally every aspect of Jewish genealogy. There will be a virtual component to the event as well. The keynote speaker will be Michael Hoberman, professor of American literature at Fitchburg State University and author of “New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America” and “A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literature.” Due to social distancing restrictions, conference attendance will be limited, so a waitlist will be created. Registration and conference program details are posted on the conference website at iajgs2021.org. “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History” (Wayne State University Press, 2020). The book is a biography of Dawidowicz (1915– 1990), a pioneer historian in the field now known as Holocaust studies, and it chronicles Dawidowicz’s story as a window into 20th-century Jewish life. The book was named a Natan Notable Book by the Natan Fund and Jewish Book Council in fall 2020. Sinkoff is a professor of Jewish studies and history and the academic director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University. Sinkoff’s research interests include early Rutgers Professor Nancy Sinkoff Wins modern and modern Jewish history with a focus National Jewish Book Award on East European Jewish intellectual history, the Nancy Sinkoff won a 2020 National Jewish Book Enlightenment, politics and gender. l Award in the category of biography for her book — Compiled by Andy Gotlieb Chai. 30 MARCH 11, 2021 Nancy Sinkoff Courtesy of Rutgers University News for people who know we don’t mean spiced tea. Every Thursday in the JEWISH EXPONENT and all the time online @jewishexponent.com. For home delivery, call 215.832.0710. JEWISH EXPONENT JEWISHEXPONENT.COM C ommunity / deaths DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES DEATH NOTICES BAGELLE KESTELMAN RABINOVIC Carmela Bagelle (nee Ishayek). 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BOARDMAN Dr. Steven Boardman on February 26, 2021. Beloved husband of Lynda (nee Kuzmarov); Loving father of Samuel Boardman and Dav- id Boardman; Devoted brother of Kenneth (Barbara) Boardman. Dr. Boardman was a musician, a rare book collector, and a life- long scholar. Contributions to his memory may be made to ZAKA and Congregation Mel- rose B'nai Israel Emanu-El. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com DUFFINE June Duffine (nee Rose) Feb. 27, 2021 of Bala Cynwyd. Wife of the late Richard Duffine. Mother of Geoff Duffine (Ruth), An- drea Lee (David Richter), Robin Gootee, Missy Kossar and the late Mark Sapowith; also survived by 12 grandchildren and 10...great grandchildren. Contributions in her memory may be made to ALS Research, Ry- an Wolfe Kossar Foundation and Sebastian Strong Foundation (SebastianStrong.org.) JOSEPH LEVINE & SONS www.levinefuneral .com HAAS Roslyn Haas (nee Blender), passed away on February 24, 2021. 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The family requests that contribu- tions in her memory may be made to your fa- vorite charity. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com PICKER Barbara Picker, January 22, 2021. Dear sis- ter of Marlyn Diamond Rothstein. Loving mother of Jill (Jim) Greene and Glen (Debbie) Welsh. Devoted grandmother of Jimmy (Danielle), Danny (Sara), Matthew and Kayla. Great-grandmother to four beautiful children. A Community Remembers Ismail “Samy” Rabinovic passed away on March 3rd, 2021 following a brief illness. Samy was born on April 24th, 1940 in Istan- bul, Turkey to Herman and Karolina Ra- binovic. Accompanied by his beloved wife Sara, Samy moved to the United States in 1967 to complete a masters in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Massachu- setts, Lowell. Despite skipping his interview to go skiing, he was hired and enjoyed a 26 year career with the Rohm and Haas com- pany in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A lifelong world traveler, Samy was a dedicated stu- dent of history, language, and culture, as well as a passionate and respected collector of Turkish rugs. Samy will be remembered as a generous friend to many, and a devoted hus- band, father, and grandfather who delighted in his family. Samy is preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Karolina, and his brother Mateo. He is survived by his spouse Sara Rabinovic (nee Erkohen), two sons, Ari- el Rabinovic (Lauren) and David Rabinovic (Shara), and four grandchildren, Max, Linus, Noah, and Asher. Samy is also survived by his sister-in-law Ulla Rabinovic, his niece, Daniela Eskenazi (Vitali), and his great-niece, Carolyn. Contributions in his memory can be made to the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, or the Jewish Fed- eration of Greater Philadelphia. GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS www.goldsteinsfuneral.com SOKOL Roberta E. Sokol (nee Englander) On Feb. 27, 2021. Wife of the late Howard Sokol. 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MAPP; MAPP, JOANN T., Deceased 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: Raheem Mapp, c/o John Richey, Esq., The Tannen- baum Law Group, 600 West Ger- mantown Pike, Suite 400, Ply- mouth Meeting, PA 19462, Admin- istrator. The Tannenbaum Law Group 600 West Germantown Pike Suite 400 Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 ESTATE of Patsy Barbara Birch aka Patsy B. Birch; Birch, Patsy Bar- bara aka Birch, Patsy B. 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: Daniel Birch, c/o Patricia M. 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Late of Abington Township, 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 BRYNA L. SINGER, EXECUTRIX, c/o Paul L. Feldman, Esq., 820 Homestead Rd., Jenkintown, PA 19046, Or to her Attorney: PAUL L. FELDMAN FELDMAN & FELDMAN, LLP 820 Homestead Rd. Jenkintown, PA 19046 ESTATE OF SEYMOUR LEINER, 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 JESSICA LEIGH BROOKSTEIN, EX- ECUTRIX, 2005 Poplar St., Phil- adelphia, PA 19130 ESTATE OF JOYCE EVERETT, 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 WILLIE EVERETT, ADMIN- ISTRATOR, c/o Andrew J. Barron, Esq., 2202 Delancey Place, Phil- adelphia, PA 19103, Or to his Attorney: Andrew J. Barron The Law Offices of Peter L. Klenk & Associates 2202 Delancey Place Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF JULIA ANN CLAY a/k/a JULIA CLAY, 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 JOSEPH CLAY, EXECUTOR, c/o Charles A. Jones, Jr., Esq., P.O. Box 922, Glenside, PA 19038, Or to his Attorney: CHARLES A. JONES, JR. P.O. Box 922 Glenside, PA 19038 ESTATE of RALPH DUBROFF; DUBROFF, RALPH, 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: Stanley Dubroff, c/o Edward Benoff, Esq., Benoff Law Firm, 5 Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 205, Trevose, PA 19053, Ex- ecutor. Benoff Law Firm 5 Neshaminy Interplex Suite 205 Trevose, PA 19053 ESTATE OF LORRAINE WIBLE JACKSON a/k/a LORRAINE JACK- SON, 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 ANNIE WIBLE JACKSON, ADMINISTRATRIX CTA, c/o Harry Metka, Esq., 4802 Ne- shaminy Blvd., Ste. 9, Bensalem, PA 19020, Or to her Attorney: HARRY METKA 4802 Neshaminy Blvd., Ste. 9 Bensalem, PA 19020 ESTATE OF ROSALYN BARCLAY HARRISON, 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 WILLIAM HENRY BARCLAY, ADMINISTRATOR, c/o William J. O’Brien, II, Esq., 4322 Main St., P.O. Box 4603, Phil- adelphia, PA 19127, Or to his Attorney: WILLIAM J. O’BRIEN, II 4322 Main St. P.O. Box 4603 Philadelphia, PA 19127 ESTATE OF NANCY E. STEWART, DECEASED. Late of Philadelphia LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION DBN/CTA on the above Estate have been granted to the undersigned, who request all persons having claims or demands against the es- tate of the decedent to make known the same and all persons indebted to the decedent to make payment without delay to AMY F. STEER- MAN, ADMINISTRATRIX - DBN/CTA, 1900 Spruce St., Phil- adelphia, PA 19103, Or to her Attorney: AMY F. STEERMAN AMY F. STEERMAN LLC 1900 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 ESTATE OF ROSINA GAROFALO, 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 ANTHONY GAROFALO AND ROBERT GAROFALO, ADMIN- ISTRATORS - DBN/CTA, c/o Jon Marshall, Esq., 7930-32 Oxford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-2225, Or to their Attorney: JON MARSHALL 7930-32 Oxford Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19111-2225 facebook.com/jewishexponent Follow us on @jewishexponent 34 MARCH 11, 2021 To place an ad in the Real Estate Section, call 215.832.0749 TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD CALL 215.832.0749 ESTATE OF STANLEY EVANS, 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 JOSEPH CLAY, ADMINIS- TRATOR, c/o Charles A. Jones, Jr., Esq., P.O. Box 922, Glenside, PA 19038, Or to his Attorney: CHARLES A. JONES, JR. P.O. Box 922 Glenside, PA 19038 ESTATE OF VIOLA M. GRESS, DE- CEASED. 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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 STUART GOLDSTEIN, AD- MINISTRATOR, 316 Inman Terrace, Willow Grove, PA 19090, Or to his Attorney: MARYBETH O. LAURIA THE LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL S. 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Anne Frank Music Mountain Theater will screen a virtual performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” at 3 p.m. Based on the book “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” and adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the play draws from previously unpublished parts of Anne Frank’s diary. Register at showclix.com/event/the-diary-of- anne-frank-mmt. MONDAY, MARCH 15 Hidden Heretics The Center for Jewish History will host author Ayala Fader in conversation with Michal Kravel-Tovi about her book, “Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age,” a revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities. Event starts at 4 p.m. Register at programs.cjh.org/tickets/ hidden-heretics-2021-03-15. N E W S MAKE R S On Feb. 21, Ohev Shalom of Bucks County hosted the “Purim Palooza Drive Thru Experience,” where congregants drove around the synagogue to be greeted by the Ohev Shalom Men’s Club. Congregants received candles for Yom HaShoah, hamantaschen, goodie bags with groggers and Purim recipes. Sisterhood-sponsored “Shelach Manot” and tickets for “Pour-em” raffle baskets were available to buy. Congregants were also treated to a fire juggler and festive tunes. Photos by Evan Glickman THURSDAY, MARCH 18 Women in Science Temple Judea of Bucks County will host a Zoom lunch and learn about Israeli women working in medical science at noon. Featured speakers will be Debbie Garner, Israeli medical device company executive, and scientist Rivka Riven Kreitman. Register at templejudea.org/event/ lunch-and-learn.html. Virtual Cooking Class Join an interactive virtual cooking class that will support the children and families served by FamilyMatters, a JAFCO Support Network. Ingredients for two complete meals will be delivered directly to participants’ homes anywhere in the continental U.S. Event starts at 5 p.m. Email info@familymattersnetwork.org for more information. l Staff members at KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia welcomed members of the community to celebrate Purim outside of the Raymond and Miriam Klein Building. The celebration included giveaway bags of hamantaschen, holiday music, raffles, trivia with prizes, beads and grogger giveaways. From left: Shelley Geltzer, Sanjila Sardar, Sharon Kaplan, Sue Aistrop, Yaffa Yermish and Andrea Kimelheim Photo by Stephanie Hampson Cantor Ralph Goren of Beth El Synagogue in Margate, New Jersey, delivered more than 30 bags of non-per- ishable food to Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties. The donation will will restock the JFS Food Pantry to assist individuals and families in the region. WHAT’S GOING ON in Jewish Philadelphia? 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JEWISH EXPONENT MARCH 11, 2021 35 OUR MISSION EXPANDS ITS REACH Abramson Senior Care has served as a safety net for the frail Jewish elderly for 150 years. And while the senior care landscape has changed around us, we have remained passionately committed to this mission. From 2008 through 2019, we gradually expanded our reach through services such as Transitional Care, Home Care, Hospice, Care Advisors, Medical Adult Day, Outpatient Memory Care, Primary Care and Palliative Care. This array of services now provides care to nearly 5,000 seniors throughout our community each year—wherever and however they need us. THROUGH BOLD LEADERSHIP In 2020, with Medicaid increasingly directing seniors away from nursing homes and toward home-based æäõèäñçúì÷ëðòõèöèñìòõöèûóõèööìñêäóõèéèõèñæèéòõäêìñêìñóïäæèúèðäçè÷ëèçìĦ  æøï÷çèæìöìòñ to sell our treasured Horsham campus, the Abramson Center for Jewish Life. While we share in our community’s many emotions about this sale, it was necessary for sustaining our vital work. TO SERVE MORE SENIORS Today, Abramson Senior Care means a spectrum of caring services that empowers seniors to remain safely independent at home for as long as possible—choosing a nursing home only when absolutely necessary—aging in place with dignity, purpose and choice. It means support not only for seniors, but for the families who love them. The vulnerability of our seniors has never been more painfully apparent. We continue to ask- how can we serve them better? Our evolution began years before the pandemic, but the many lessons learned this past year inform our path forward. FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. We are humbled and privileged that the community has entrusted us with caring for seniors since 1866. We will continue to be here for you and your family for generations to come as we navigate the aging journey together. Follow our journey by visiting us at www.abramsonseniorcare.org. Our Spectrum of Care 36 Birnhak Transitional Care at Lankenau Medical Center Edna Young Gordon Healthy Brain & Memory Center Lila H. Levin Palliative Care Program Hospice Polisher Research Institute Care Advisors Home Care Primary Care MARCH 11, 2021 JEWISH EXPONENT Medical Adult Day Services JEWISHEXPONENT.COM