C ommunity
NEWSMAKERS Michael A. Weinberg became a partner at Weinberg, Kaplan and
Smith, a Marlton, New Jersey-based law firm. Weinberg focuses
his practice on matrimonial and family law matters.

More than 150 people attended “Jewish
Values & The Ethical Now: A Conference
in Celebration of Rabbi David A. Teutsch,
Ph.D,” held at the National Museum of
Jewish History and sponsored by The Center
for Jewish Ethics of the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College. The conference was
organized to advance discussion on issues
that Teutsch, a longtime Philadelphian who
has held numerous leadership roles in the
Reconstructionist movement, has influ-
enced, including organizational leadership,
liturgy and advocacy for a two-state solution.

Rabbi David A. Teutsch
Photo courtesy of Reconstructing Judaism
Michael A. Weinberg
Photo courtesy of Thomas Boyd Communications
Leslie Stone Hirsh, a prosthodontist in Philadelphia, was
awarded a certificate in implant dentistry from the Academy
of Osseointegration at the annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Hirsh, a clinical associate professor of restorative dentistry at
Penn Dental Medicine, who also has a private practice, was one
of two award recipients.

Leslie Stone Hirsh
MARCH 21, 2019
Yoram Azulay, Shmuel Elbaz
and Moshe Barsheshet
Liz Spikol
Rabbi Chaim Pass, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chochmas Shlomo in B’nei B’rak, Israel, recently
spent Shabbat at Foxman Torah Institute, the yeshiva of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Pass shared
divrei Torah, hashkafa and inspiring stories, as well as a shiur on the sugiya of s’ fek s’ feka in
Kesubos, which FTI is learning.

Photo courtesy of Leslie Stone Hirsh
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38 In a concert co-sponsored by Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia,
Partnership2Gether and ARTolerance,
musicians Yoram Azulay, Shmuel Elbaz
(on keyboards) and Moshe Barsheshet, all
from Netivot, play Sephardic Andalusian
music at Congregation Mikveh Israel
prior to Shabbat services.

From left: Head of School Rabbi Yisrael Davidowitz, founder Rabbi Shimon Max, Rabbi Chaim Pass,
Head of High School Rabbi Chaim Juni
Photo courtesy of Foxman Torah Institute
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