REUNION
PART 2
EAGLES FLOP
Exponent story spurs second DP camp
reunion after 71 years for local woman.

NOVEMBER 26, 2020 / 10 KISLEV 5781
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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
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LOCAL People Stay
Thankful in
Tough Times
We ask a few
folks what they’re
grateful for.

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LOCAL HIAS PA Clients
Celebrate Turkey
Day Virtually
Staff didn’t want
them missing their
first Thanksgiving.

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LOCAL Lecture Traces
History of Hate
Urgency up as hate
crimes rise.

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Volume 133
Number 33
Published Weekly Since 1887
Great Depression
Social Work
Story Has
Lessons for
Today SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
UNEMPLOYMENT. EVICTION. Poverty.

Hunger. Th ese problems have appeared in the
news frequently this year as the corona-
virus pandemic batters the economy. Th ey
also are familiar to those who have studied
— or survived — a diff erent catastrophe:
the Great Depression.

Th e stock market crash of 1929 and the
ensuing economic crisis left millions of
Americans unemployed, unhoused and
unfed. As unemployment levels reached
nearly 25%, social workers and service
agencies advocated for the creation of
public welfare programs to meet the
surging demand for relief.

Dorothy C. Kahn, a Jewish social
worker who worked in Philadelphia for
many years, was a strong proponent of
Protesters against school closures make their voices heard in front of Montgomery County
Commissioners Chair Valerie Arkoosh’s house in Wyndmoor on Nov. 22.

Photo by Liz Spikol
Jewish Parents, Schools
Join Opposition to Montco
School Closures
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
IT’S 10 A.M. ON A SUNDAY morning
on a quiet residential street in Wyndmoor,
but a car is blaring “We’re Not Gonna
Take It” in front of Dr. Valerie Arkoosh’s
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house. Along with the Twisted Sister
song, there are children chanting “We
want school, open our schools” through
megaphones and about 30 people waving
signs — though it’s unclear if Arkoosh is
even at home.

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