SUMMER BEGINS
ARTISTIC INFLUENCE
Barnes exhibit considers Jewish artist Chaïm
Soutine and his impact on Willem de Kooning.

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LOCAL Most Jewish
Candidates, In-
cluding DA Larry
Krasner, Win on
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LOCAL Kosher Bakery
Set to Close
Roz Bratt hangs it
up after 24 years.

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LOCAL Jake Fischer
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76ers’ tanking plan.

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Volume 134
Number 7
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Former Exponent
Business Manager
Charged With $1.44M
Fraud ANDY GOTLIEB AND GABE KAHN | JE MANAGING
EDITOR AND JE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FORMER JEWISH
EXPONENT Director of Business Operations Cheryl
Lutts was arrested and charged May 21
with 22 counts of wire fraud and two counts
of mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
announced. Lutts, 42, of Philadelphia allegedly
siphoned about $1.19 million from the
Exponent between 2016 and 2019, as well
as about $255,000 from Th e Philly Pops,
where she worked as controller aft er being
fi red from the Exponent in August 2019.

In all, Lutts is accused of stealing $1.44
million. “Nonprofi t organizations exist for the
people and constituencies they serve, not
See Fraud, Page 14
Left: Irving Goldfi nger. Right: Abraham (back left) and Sadie Goldfi nger (back right) with Irving (front
left) and Harold (front right). Norma Goldfi nger was born in between Harold and Irving.

Photos courtesy of Marci Goldfi nger
‘She Was a Person’: Man
Searches for Infant Sister
He Never Met
her father, Irving Goldfi nger.

On a census document from 1930, she
MARCI GOLDFINGER WAS noodling found the names she expected. Th ere was
around on the internet in July 2012 trying her grandfather, Abraham Goldfi nger; her
to fi nd out a bit more about the family of grandmother, Sadie (Ecman) Goldfi nger;
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
See Sister, Page 15