C ommunity / mazel tovs
E NGAGEMENT
ANNIVERSARY KAHAN-HACOHEN
COHAN Ruth (z”l) and Stephen H. Saks of Lansdale announce the engagement of
their granddaughter Eliana Kahan to Azariah Hacohen. The parents are Amy
(z”l) and Jeremy Kahan of Skokie, Illinois, and Sandi and Yisrael Hacohen of
Queens, New York.

Eliana received a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College of Columbia
University and is pursuing a master’s degree in Talmud at Tel Aviv University.

Azariah is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College in political science, honors business,
animation/illustration and design graphics. He has an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Azariah is an attorney specializing in international arbitration and Israeli litigation. He is also
the CEO and lead designer of Creative Visuals. Eliana is a Nachshon Project graduate fellow and
is teaching Talmud at Hevruta at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

A wedding in Israel is planned for early 2021.
Photo by Teya Bardakah
FISHMAN-BUCKMAN Happy 65th wedding anniversary to
Joan and Burton Cohan of Rydal Park,
who were married Oct. 30, 1955.

Mazel tov from children Michael,
Mindy and Lauren — wishing many
more years of health and happiness.

Courtesy of Michael Cohan
B I RT H
KAYLA SADIE LEIBOVITZ
Sandra Fishman and Robert Fishman, of Manhattan, New York, and Amy
and Terry Buckman of Bala Cynwyd, and Ventnor, New Jersey, announce the
engagement of their children, Alexandra Rachel Fishman and Jason Samuel
Buckman. An August 2021 wedding in Jersey City, New Jersey, is planned.

Allie is a graduate of the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University.

Jason is a graduate of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
University. They are both managers in the EY consulting practice specializing in product and
marketing. Sharing in the couple’s happiness are Jason’s brothers and sister-in-law, Micah Buckman,
William Buckman and Emily DuPont, along with his grandmother, Elaine Buckman of Spring
Valley, Illinois.
Photo courtesy of ein photography and design inc.

Ronda and Howard Moses and Beth
Leibovitz announce the birth of their
granddaughter, Kayla Sadie Leibovitz,
on Oct. 10. The parents are Kim and
Richie Leibovitz.

Kayla is named in loving memory of
her paternal grandfather Ken Leibovitz
and her maternal great-grandmothers
Shirley Wolfe and Sadie Moses.

Photo by Kim Leibovitz
COMMUNITYBRIEFS NMAJH Announces Changes to Event Space
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of American Jewish
History announced on Oct. 27 a new catering
partnership, as well as a renaming and expansion of
its ballroom.

The museum will partner with Neuman’s Kitchen,
a New York and Philadelphia caterer founded in 1981.

Neuman’s Kitchen also will manage the museum’s
rental sales operation.

Neuman’s Kitchen will be able to provide kosher-
style catering and will work with kosher caterer
Leslie Rosen Catering for events requiring elevated
kashrut. In addition, the ballroom — which will be called
5th on 5th — will expand by more than 40% to more
than 7,000 square feet by combining the temporary
exhibition space on the fifth floor with the existing
event space.

Philadelphia to Host 2021 Jewish Genealogy
International Conference
The International Association of Jewish Genealogical
Societies announced that its 41st annual International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy would take place in
Philadelphia from Aug. 2-5, 2021.

Fred Blum of Huntingdon Valley, a past president
of the Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of
Greater Philadelphia — which is co-hosting the event
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — will co-chair the conference.

Nearly 1,000 participants from around the world
are expected to attend the conference, which will
feature more than 100 speakers and 250 sessions
covering various aspects of Jewish genealogy.

IAJGS is an umbrella organization of more than 93
Jewish genealogical organizations worldwide.

Student Raises Money Via Homemade Cookies
Caleb Shapiro Mendelsohn, a junior at the Jack
M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, has started Caleb’s
Cookies for a Cause, selling homemade chocolate
chip cookies to make a little extra cash and to raise
over $1,000 for organizations like Philadelphia Youth
Basketball and a local diaper bank.

“I wanted a way to support myself and support
others,” Shapiro Mendelsohn said.

Selling packs of 12 cookies for $10 each, Shapiro
Mendelsohn uses a recipe that brings together what
he believes are the best elements of several different
chocolate chip cookie recipes. He delivers them by
bike or by car, driven by his parents.

The project began when Shapiro Mendelsohn was
staying at his mother’s shore house in Ocean Grove,
New Jersey, where posts from Mindy Shapiro in an
Ocean Grove Facebook group helped spread the
word. Since school started, Shapiro Mendelsohn
JEWISH EXPONENT
continues to bake when he can, delivering from his
home in Mt. Airy.

Shapiro, who described herself as doing the
marketing for her son, has only sampled a gluten-free
batch made by her son by special request. She reports
that the cookies taste “incredible.”
Community Leader Jules Einhorn Dies at 73
Jules Einhorn, who was active in the Jewish commu-
nity for many years, died Oct. 31. He was 73.

Einhorn was the founding partner of Coordinated
Planning Concepts insurance agency. He served as
president of Temple Sinai in Dresher from 1991-’94,
the Bux-Mont Jewish Appeal from 1989-’91 and
Camp Ramah in the Poconos from 1994-2000, as
well as vice president of the Delaware Valley region of
the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism from
1995-’97. Einhorn was a recipient of the Golden Yarmulke
Award from the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs,
the Youth Campaign Award from Camp Ramah
and was a board member of the Jewish Business
Network. He is survived by his wife Carol (Feldman),
sons Joshua (Melissa Nemer) and Aaron (Lindsey),
daughter Rachel Saks (Rabbi Ari), and six
grandchildren. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb and Jesse Bernstein
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
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