C ommunity
COMMUNITYBRIEFS NMAJH Names New Board Co-Chairs
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of American Jewish
History named Sharon Tobin Kestenbaum and Joseph
S. Zuritsky as co-chairpersons of its board of trustees.

Kestenbaum is the first woman chair or co-chair
of the NMAJH board, on which she has served since
2011. She is president of Bala Properties Group, Inc., an
investment and management company in regional
real estate. She co-chairs the museum’s Strategic
Advancement and Development Committees and
chaired its 2020 Only in America Gala & Auction.

Kestenbaum is the vice chair of the board of direc-
tors at Children’s Crisis Treatment Center and is
nominated to become the chair beginning in January.

Zuritsky has been a NMAJH board member since
1993. He and his late wife, Renée Zuritsky, were
honored at the museum’s 2018 Only in America Gala.

Zuritsky is chairman and CEO of Parkway Corp.

He’s served on the boards of the Philadelphia African
American Museum, the American Jewish Committee,
the Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the
National Liberty Museum, the Japan America Society
of Greater Philadelphia, the American Technion
Society, and the Philadelphia Parking Association.

He is the past president and chairman of the National
Parking Association, past president of the Jewish
National Fund and founder and former chairman of
the Center City District.

In addition, after nine years, first as co-chair with
the late Ron Rubin and later as chair, Phil Darivoff
has become chairperson emeritus and trustee.

Sharon Tobin Kestenbaum
Courtesy of Wistar Institute
equity and inclusion efforts in the osteopathic commu-
nity. The award was presented virtually on Oct. 23
during the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference.

Feldstein, who has led PCOM since 2014, formed
the President’s Commission on Racial Justice:
Transforming Campus Culture, a cross-campus
coalition created to advance PCOM’s commitment
to inclusion and launched the 2025 Diversity, Equity
Israeli Lyricist Noam Horev to Visit Philadelphia and Inclusion Strategic Plan to embed diversity,
Israeli contemporary lyricist Noam Horev will appear equity and inclusion at PCOM.

at Congregation Mikveh Israel at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 13
as part of his North American tour. Tickets are $35. Jewish Soccer Coach Leads Masterman High
Noam Horev, 37, has created hits for top Israeli artists School to First Championship Win
and is an award winner with the Society of Authors, Jewish coach Tyler Weiss led the Julia R. Masterman
Composers and Musical Publishers in Israel, also known Laboratory and Demonstration School boys’ soccer
as ACUM, and is author of “Tiyuta Shel Osher.”
team to its first-ever Public League championship on
Noam, who was born with a paralyzed hand, grew Oct. 27 against Abraham Lincoln High School. The
up and was educated in Afula.

Masterman team won 2-1 in double overtime during
In the show, he tells his personal story — from
when he was a child with a dream to write songs
through the struggles along the way until he became
a sought-after lyricist in Israel.

He tells the stories behind his best-known songs
(“Matanot Ktanot,” “Isha Charsina” and others),
relates anecdotes about the Israeli music industry and
shares the songwriting and publishing process.

PCOM President Honored
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
announced that President and CEO Jay S. Feldstein
is the recipient of the American Osteopathic
Association’s 2021 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Unification Award.

The inaugural award recognizes exemplary leadership
and commitment to promoting and advancing diversity,
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM The Masterman soccer team
JEWISH EXPONENT
Joseph S. Zuritsky
Courtesy of Parkway Corp.

the championship match.

According to Weiss, more than a third of the
team’s players are Jewish, including the goalkeeper,
who saved two of four penalty shots during a
semifinal game against Central High School on Sept.

27, securing the Masterman win.

Upon winning the game, players rushed into the
crowd of more than 250 people with tears in their
eyes, Weiss said.

“Jewish athletes are always undermined,” Weiss
said. “This just showed they don’t need to be under-
mined anymore.”
This is Weiss’ first year coaching at Masterman
High School. He coached Team Israel in this year’s
Philadelphia International Unity Cup. Masterman
had its first match in the state tournament on
Nov. 9. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb and Sasha Rogelberg
Courtesy of Tyler Weiss
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