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LOCAL AJC Celebrates
75 Years in Region
Chapter made debut
on May 18, 1944.

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LOCAL Anti-Semitic
Graffiti Found in
SEPTA Station
Spring Garden
platform defaced in
several spots.

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LOCAL Barrack Responds
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Volume 239
000 Number 49
0 Published Weekly Since 1887
‘Community Portrait’
Study Evaluates
Population SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
A “COMMUNITY PORTRAIT” study
of the Greater Philadelphia Jewish popula-
tion is underway to help identify and meet
needs for services and engagement.

The study, which is being commis-
sioned by the Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia, looks at the Jewish popula-
tion in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery,
Chester and Delaware counties. It poses
questions about socioeconomic status,
philanthropy and volunteering, percep-
tions of Israel and more.

“If we don’t do a study, then we have no
idea because if you ask a Jewish organiza-
tion, then they only know the people they
serve,” said Kelly Romirowsky, director
of evaluation, research and knowledge
management at Jewish Federation. “That’s
exactly why we need to do this study.”
The preliminary results are expected in
November, and the full study will be ready
in early 2020. The results will be made
widely available so that different Jewish
A crowd, including members of Jewish Federation and JCRC staff, gathers for a “Service of
Interreligious Solidarity” held by the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s
University in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.

Photo by Jason Holtzman
Jewish Community Responds
to Deadly Mosque Attack
JANET PEREZ AND LIZ SPIKOL | JE FEATURE
INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND
local Jewish communities are condemn-
ing last week’s white supremacist attack
on two New Zealand mosques that killed
50 people and wounded dozens.

The attacks took place in the city of
Christchurch at the Al Noor Mosque
and Linwood Mosque during March 15
morning prayers. The “worst act of ter-
rorism committed on our shores,” as
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern characterized it, was allegedly
carried out by a 28-year-old Australian
national who’d penned an 87-page man-
ifesto filled with anti-immigrant and
anti-Muslim rhetoric.

See Population, Page 15
See Attack, Page 14
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