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OCTOBER 7, 2021 / 1 CHESHVAN 5782
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JEWISHEXPONENT.COM — WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA —
$1.00 OF NOTE
LOCAL Intruder Tries to
Disrupt Yom
Kippur Service
Private security,
police handle the
situation. Page 4
PHILLY FACES
Meet Aimee
Goldstein Production company
promotes theater
via a Jewish lens.

Page 6
LOCAL Tikvah Hires
New Executive
Abby Gilbert to
lead mental health
nonprofit. Page 8
Volume 134
Number 26
Published Weekly Since 1887
How Do
Clergy Relax
Once the
High Holidays
End? JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
LOCAL CLERGY WANT to clear up one
thing about the High Holiday season off
the top.

It’s not just Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur. Aft er those 10 days, the season
continues through the week of Sukkot and
the two days of Simchat Torah.

So, in the end, the High Holiday season
lasts almost a month. And by the end of
a season of long days, rabbis, cantors and
synagogue leaders are oft en wiped.

Now, you may be inclined to believe
that rabbis sleep at their synagogues just
like teachers sleep at their schools. But just
like with teachers, that is a myth. Just like
teachers, rabbis have lives, too.

And come the end of the High Holiday
month, they get to live them again. Th e
5782/2021 High Holiday season concluded
Sept. 29 with Simchat Torah. Since then,
HIAS PA’s inventory of sorted donations that will be given to arriving Afghan newcomers
Courtesy of HIAS PA
Community Assists in
Resettling Afghan Evacuees
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
SINCE THE FALL of Kabul, Afghanistan,
to Taliban forces on Aug. 15, almost 12,000
Afghan evacuees have arrived in the
Greater Philadelphia area, according to
city offi cials, and the Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society Pennsylvania is tasked with
resettling 100 of them.

Of the 12,000 evacuees, 300 will need
to be resettled in Philadelphia, 100 in Erie
and 75 in Upper Darby. Nine of the HIAS
PA evacuees have already arrived.

In addition, HIAS PA and area
synagogues have played a key role in
collecting donations.

HIAS PA received an overwhelming
wave of community support, receiving
See Relax, Page 10
See Afghan, Page 11
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