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NEWSMAKERS The seventh- and eighth-graders at Abrams Hebrew Academy
in Yardley met with Rabbi Moshe Cohn from Yad Vashem, the
World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Cohn is head of the
Jewish World Section, International Seminars and Jewish World
Department, and the International School for Holocaust Studies, at
Yad Vashem.

On March 7, American Jewish Committee (AJC) Philadelphia hosted the second part of its
Daniel Veloric Lecture Series, “The Legacy and Leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Future
Challenges and Opportunities” at the Pyramid Club in Center City. The program featured two
keynote speakers: Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP, and civil rights activist
Timothy K. Lewis, counsel at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis.

From left: Ben Jealous, keynote speaker and former president and CEO of the NAACP; Morris Gocial, AJC
Philadelphia chairman; Oliver St. Clair Franklin, honorary consul of the United Kingdom; Timothy K. Lewis,
keynote speaker and counsel at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis; David Smith, AJC Philadelphia president;
Dani Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York and inaugural Veloric Lecture keynote speaker; and Marcia
Bronstein, AJC regional director
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Rabbi Moshe Cohn
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Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia Men’s Mission IV
enjoyed a reunion at Chops Restaurant in Center City.

Naomi Adler, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, received the
Israel Bonds’ first annual Shimon Peres Leadership Award at the Israel Bonds’ Prime Minister’s
Club event on March 3 in Hollywood, Florida. She was one of nine honorees.

Men’s Mission IV participants
Photo courtesy of Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Abrams Hebrew Academy students in grades kindergarten
through seventh showcased their science and engineering knowl-
edge on March 1 at the annual Abrams science and engineering
fair. On March 8 and 15, Abrams will send teams to participate
in the Bucks County Regional K’nex STEM challenge for the
fifth year.

From left: Talya Weiss, Aviel Zur, Mikael Segal and Aleeza Greenhouse
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chairman of the board; Naomi Adler; Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States; Harold Marcus,
Israel Bonds executive director of Pennsylvania; and Israel Maimon, Israel Bonds president and CEO
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The Klein family hosted a gathering of Alexander Muss High School in Israel alumni, along with
rabbis Greg Litcofsky and Leor Sinai, to talk about the benefits of high school in Israel.

From left, front row: Maddie, Sydney, Heather, Mark and Ellie Klein. Back from left: Rabbis Greg Litcofsky and
Leor Sinai
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