C ommunity / mazel tovs
BAR MITZVAH
MARRIAGE JACOB SETH COHEN
COLE-DA SILVA
Jacob Seth Cohen was called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on Oct. 16 at Temple Beth
Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia.

Jacob is the son of Sherri and Daniel Cohen
and brother of Benjamin Cohen. His grand-
parents are Susan and Charles (z”l) Shubin of
Baltimore, Maryland, and Dorothy and Irving
Cohen of Denville, New Jersey.

Jacob lives in Center City and is a seventh-
grader at Germantown Friends School, as well
as being a camper at Camp Ramah in the
Poconos. Photo by Daniel Cohen
Diedre and Stephen Cole of Huntingdon Valley
announce the marriage of their son, Jared Reed
Cole, to Kaline da Silva, the daughter of Chirlene
da Silva and the late Benjamim Alves of Recife,
Brazil. The ceremony and reception took place at the
residence of the groom’s parents on July 31. Steven
Stein, the groom’s uncle, officiated.

Sharing in the couple’s excitement were Jared’s
sister and brother-in-law, Ashley and Michael
Occhiogrosso, his nephews Henry and Vaughn,
and his grandfather Sheldon Stein.

Jared and Kaline, who live in Philadelphia, honeymooned in the Outer Banks.

Photo by Steven Stein
COMMUNITYBRIEFS James C. Schwartzman Elected President
Judge of Judicial Discipline Court
JAMES C. SCHWARTZMAN was elected president
judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline,
which is tasked with hearing and deciding charges of
misconduct filed against judicial officers.

Schwartzman previously chaired the Pennsylvania
Judicial Conduct Board and is a former chair of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Disciplinary Board,
Continuing Legal Education Board and the Interest
on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts Board.

He is a partner at Stevens & Lee and chairs its
Ethics and Professional Responsibility Group.

Schwartzman is a former assistant U.S. attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

James C.

Schwartzman Courtesy of
Stevens & Lee
Fourth Generation Herbert Yentis & Co.

Realtors Celebrates 100th Year
Fourth-generation family real estate office Herbert
Yentis & Co. Realtors recently celebrated its 100th
year in business.

Two generations of the family work in the
business, including President Jeffrey Goldstone and
his parents, Jackie Yentis Goldstone and Chairman
George Goldstone.

The firm has been located along City Avenue since
1967. That same year, The Yentis Foundation was
founded to support programs benefiting immigrants;
it has since expanded its goals. As the foundation
An exhibit in “Growing American”
Courtesy of Stockton University
grew, it expanded to provide funding to many chari-
ties, especially benefiting needy children.

The company services 325 mostly commercial
tenants and actively manages properties in 18 munic- to the perseverance of the early settlers.

ipalities and 13 townships in the Philadelphia area in
The exhibit was curated by the Noyes Museum,
addition to its brokerage.

Alliance Heritage Center and South Jersey Culture
& History Center at Stockton University and features
Alliance Farming Community History
photos, memorabilia and artifacts preserved by the
on Display in New Jersey
descendants of the original settlers.

The history of the Alliance Agricultural Colony in
The exhibit includes yearbooks from the Norma
South Jersey, titled “Growing American,” is on display school and films from the 1930s taken by Leon
at the Noyes Gallery of Art at Stockton University’s M. Bardfeld that show the area and surrounding
Kramer Hall, 30 Front St. in Hammonton, New Jersey. towns including Centerton and Vineland. The photos
The colony was founded in 1882 by Eastern and letters tell stories of hardship, but also days of
European Jews who fled Russian pogroms. It was one swimming in the Maurice River, playing baseball,
of several colonies formed in South Jersey, but the and building homes and businesses. The exhibit runs
settlers were unfamiliar with farming and most failed. until Feb. 4. It is open to the public during Kramer
Those that succeeded, developed and expanded into Hall hours, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from
other industries. The towns of Rosenhayn, Carmel, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday until 8 p.m. and Thursday
Norma and Brotmanville remain today as a testament until 9 p.m. l
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