HORN
TOOTED FINALLY FALL
A film explores the history of Horn & Hardart,
whose many Jewish fans included Mel Brooks.

OCTOBER 21, 2021 / 15 CHESHVAN 5782
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Volume 134
Number 28
Published Weekly Since 1887
Woman Ends
Blood Drives
That Honored
Her Mother
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
AFTER 13 YEARS, 35 blood drives,
more than 5,000 units collected and more
than 15,000 patients helped, the Carol H.

Axelrod Memorial Blood Drive is coming
to an end.

Wayne resident Michelle Scolnick, who
founded and ran the drive to honor her
mother, Carol Axelrod, announced the
decision in an email to supporters on
Sept. 30.

She called the decision “a very diffi cult
one” for her family.

“We consider everyone who contrib-
utes to the success of our drives — donors,
volunteers, sponsors and supporters —
to be part of our extended blood drive
family,” Scolnick wrote.

Th e pandemic made the events more
diffi cult to hold over the past year-and-
a-half. Crowds had to be smaller, venues
were less open to hosting and donors were
less willing to give blood, Scolnick said.

At the same time, the pandemic gave
the 48-year-old a chance to step back
and refl ect. With her daughter, Emily
Josh Shapiro speaks to the crowd at his campaign rally on Oct. 13 at Penn State Abington.

Photos by Jarrad Saff ren
Josh Shapiro Touts Jewish
Values in Kickoff for
Governor’s Race
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
AT THE END of his campaign kickoff
speech on Oct. 13 at Penn State Abington,
Josh Shapiro paraphrased a line from the
Talmud. “My faith teaches me that no one is
required to complete the task, but neither
are we free to refrain from it,” said the new
Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania
governor. Th e state’s attorney general, who is
Jewish, said he uses that line in synagogues,
churches and union halls alike, and now
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