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LOCAL Josh Shapiro
Seeks Second
Term AG pledges to
fight opioid crisis,
gun violence.

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LOCAL Town Halls Offer
Opposing Views
Shaare Shamayim
forums give both
parties their say.

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LOCAL Rabbi Honored
as LGBT Icon
Deborah Waxman’s
contributions to be
recognized Oct. 30.

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Volume 133
Number 29
Published Weekly Since 1887
Study Provides
New Data
About Jews
of Color
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
NEW DATA RELEASED from “Jews of
Color Community Portrait: A 2019 Jewish
Population Study of Greater Philadelphia”
reveals high levels of socioeconomic
inequality in the area, as well as cultural
diff erences between Jews of color and
white, non-Hispanic Jews.

Th e study was part of “Community
Portrait: A 2019 Jewish Population Study,” the
larger 2019 Jewish community demographics
study commissioned by Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia from the Maryland-
based research fi rm Westat.

Th e study defi ned a Jew of color as
“any Jewish individual who identifi ed
themselves as Hispanic or any other
non-white racial identity.” According to
the results, there are approximately 36,300
Jews of color in the Greater Philadelphia
region — about 10% of the Jewish popula-
tion here — living in 18,400 households.

Th e last time Jewish Federation conducted
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COVID-19 testing takes places in a state public health laboratory in Exton, Pennsylvania. Scientists
are still trying to determine why the illness aff ects some people diff erently.

Photo by governortomwolf is licensed with CC BY 2.0
Some COVID Patients in
for the Long Haul
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THE FISH TASTED AWFUL.

Lori Cooper doesn’t like to ruin anyone
else’s good time at the dinner table, so she
kept the taste of the fi sh to herself.

It was harder to hide how exhausted
she felt.

Cooper, on a sy nagog ue t rip to
Morocco led by her husband, Rabbi Neil
Cooper, excused herself from the table
and went back to her room, where a fever
and terrible body aches soon followed.

Respiratory issues came later, only aft er
she and the rest of the Temple Beth Hillel-
Beth El group made a tense, winding trip
back to the United States on March 18-19.

Aft er they returned, Cooper was
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