MOMMY
DEAREST GETTING WARMER
“If You See My Mother” channels Sophocles’
“Oedipus Rex,” albeit with humor.

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LOCAL Kaiserman JCC
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Alan Scher’s resume
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Volume 134
Number 4
Published Weekly Since 1887
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
PENNSYLVANIA EXPERIENCED a
slight decrease in antisemitic incidents
in 2020 relative to 2019, according to the
Anti-Defamation League’s 2020 Audit of
Antisemitic Incidents.

Th e annual audit, released on April 27,
recorded 101 incidents — 70 harassment
incidents, 29 vandalism reports and two
cases of assault. In 2019, there were 109
incidents, with slightly fewer harassment
cases, many more vandalisms and one
fewer assault.

Th e audit included some specifi c
incidents (the full list is publicly avail-
able at adl.org/heat-map.) Th e list includes
incidents like a youth hockey coach in
Northampton County who called 10-year-
old Jewish players “dirty Jews” in the
handshake line, and a sign in front of a
Philadelphia synagogue that was defaced
At JCC Camps at Medford, summer 2020 fi shing specialist Bill Hamby teaches fi rst-grade campers
about their catch.

Photo by Sara Sideman
Vaccines to Allow Camps
to Return Closer to Normal
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
FOR JEWISH SUMMER CAMPS in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the wide
availability of vaccines represents a chance
for a summer that’s closer to “normal”
than the summer of 2020 was.

Th ough camp directors are hardly
rushing to drop policies regarding
mask-wearing or disinfection, they
acknowledged that some of the mental
weight of in-person camp was lift ed. With
their vaccine-eligible staff s on their way
to being vaccinated, the possibility of
infection or transmission is dramatically
reduced, making way for a summer that
might just look like summer.

As of May 4, 51% of all Pennsylvania
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