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GLOBAL UPenn Prof
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LOCAL Kismet Bagels
It started as a pan-
demic hobby. Now
it’s everything.

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LIFESTYLE Sophia Loren
Returns She plays a Jewish
woman in a new
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Volume 133
Number 32
Published Weekly Since 1887
Jewish Campus
Groups Maintain
Connection — and Food
Helps JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
CHINESE FOOD, Shabbat dinners with
friends, Israel programming, social justice
initiatives and lectures from Dr. Ruth:
In key ways, the experiences of Jewish
students at Hillel and Chabad in the
Greater Philadelphia area haven’t changed
a bit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s certainly not for the world’s lack of
trying. Th e shock of the spring, with seniors
sent home early, was only compounded
by the touch-and-go planning of the
summer, when state and local guidelines
for stopping the spread of infection were
changing as quickly as those of the colleges
and universities themselves. Th e University
of Pennsylvania, for one, announced that
undergraduate students would not be able
to live in campus housing just weeks before
Students at Orleans Technical College, which has seen a surge in enrollment since the pandemic began
Courtesy of Orleans Technical College
Jewish Professionals and
Organizations Navigate
Job Loss, Career Changes
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
STEPHANIE LEES
the food and beverage
wine and spirits before
pandemic began.

Th e former manager
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WORKED in
industry selling
the coronavirus
at Butcher and
Singer in Center City closed the restau-
rant the night before the onset of citywide
shutdowns in March. She came back a
few days later to lock dozens of bottles
of expensive alcohol in the underground
vault in case there was a break-in.

When it became clear the restaurant
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