C ommunity / mazel tovs
B I RTHS
CLEMENTINE GRACE BOTEL
EVIE DRESNER HEINZ
Katie Botel of Los Angeles announces the
birth of her daughter, Clementine Grace,
born Sept. 28, 2020.

Sharing in her joy are grandparents Nina
and Max Botel of Bryn Mawr and Palm
Beach Gardens, Florida, and aunts, uncles
and cousins in Philadelphia, New York, Los
Photo by Katie Botel
Angeles and Tucson, Arizona.

Clementine is named in loving memory of her great-grandmothers, Ceil
Cherry Botel and Gertrude Bobman Bernett.

Aliza Richman and Paul Heinz of West
Chester announce the birth of their daughter
Evie Dresner Heinz on Nov. 24, 2020.

Sharing in their happiness are grandpar-
ents Wendy and Jeffrey Richman of Elkins
Park, and Dorothy and Sam Heinz of West
Chester, along with great-grandparents Tobe
Photo by Ava Richman
Dresner and Pearl and Edward Richman.

Joining in the celebration are aunt Jamie and uncle Jesse Richman, aunt Ellen
and uncle Roger Carman, and uncle John Heinz.

Evie Dresner is named in loving memory of her maternal great-grandfather,
Arnold Dresner.

MEARA GRACE ZUK
Susan and Harve Strouse announce the
birth of their granddaughter, Meara Grace
Zuk (Miriam Gitel), born on Jan. 26.

Meara is the daughter of Alissa and
Peter Zuk and the sister of Max Finn of
Alexandria, Virginia.

Meara is named for her maternal
great-grandmother Miriam (Mitzi) Zucker
and her paternal great-grandmother Grace
Strouse. Photo by Susan B. Strouse
AN N I VE R SARY
ABRAMS Beth and George Abrams, formerly of Wyncote,
Rydal and Longport, New Jersey, celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 26 in Palm
Beach Gardens, Florida, at their home in Ballenisles.

Their loving family shared their joy with a
surprise brunch delivery and Zoom gathering with
their children, Brad and Suzanne, JD and Suzi, and
grandchildren Scott, Melissa, Jordyn, Max and Lily.

The festivities included a montage of wishes from
friends and family near and far.

Photo by Norman Levinson
COMMUNITYBRIEFS Rabbi Sussman to Host Zoom Talk with
Yiddish Forverts Editor
SENIOR RABBI LANCE J. SUSSMAN of Reform
Congregation Keneseth Israel will host a Zoom talk
at 7:30 p.m. on March 10 with Rukhl Schaechter,
the editor of Yiddish Forverts, which is described as
the only remaining Yiddish newspaper outside the
Chasidic Jewish world.

Bronx-raised Schaechter is the first woman
as well as the first person born in the United
States to hold the position of editor; she is likely
also the first Sabbath-observant Jew to edit the
paper, which dates to 1897. She is the daughter
of Yiddish linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, and her
aunt was Yiddish poet and songwriter Beryle
Schaechter-Gottesman. During the talk with Sussman, she will discuss
how she started working at Yiddish Forverts as a
reporter in 1998, among other topics. She was named
editor in 2016 and has been credited for increasing
the publication’s online outreach.

For more information about the event and a link to
attend, email: contact@kenesethisrael.org.

JEWISHEXPONENT.COM Philadelphia campus at 5501 Old York Road. Visitors
Einstein’s ‘Capturing Hope’ Exhibit Opens
“Capturing Hope,” a photography exhibit depicting are required to wear a face mask and practice social
the civil rights movement, is on display at Einstein distancing. l
Medical Center Philadelphia.

— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
The exhibit, which is free and open to the public,
features photos on loan from the African American
Museum in Philadelphia that were taken by Jack T.

Franklin. The noted photographer donated his collec-
tion of more than 500,000 negatives to the museum
in 1986.

The collection comprises photos of the civil rights
movement and numerous, cultural and political
events in Philadelphia’s African American commu-
nity during his lifetime.

“Capturing Hope” is divided into three themes:
“Freedom Isn’t Free,” which features the civil rights
movement; “Martin Luther King Remembered”;
and “From Philadelphia to D.C., the March to
Washington.” The exhibit, which opened in February to
commemorate Black History Month, is located in
the Community Corridor in the Tower Building —
in Philadelphia in the 1960s photographed by
the main building on the Einstein Medical Center Jack A protest
T. Franklin
Photo by Jack T. Franklin
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