around town
Out & About
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1 OFF TO THE RACES: Campers at J Camps learned about sea life while holding hermit crab races.; 2 COLOR GAMES: At Camp Louise, kids participated in
this year’s Color Games.; 3 PARK PLAY: PJ Library of Howard County organized playtime at a local park.

|Snapshots| Two unidentified gentleman having a chat, circa 1950.

Photo by H&K Photo Services, Baltimore.

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OFF TO THE RACES: Via J Camps; COLOR GAMES: Via Camps Airy and Louise; PARK PLAY: Via PJ Library of Howard County
SNAPSHOT: Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, 1987.196.9
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last word
AJC RECIPIENT AWARD WINNER
Joe Zuritsky
J JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
OE ZURITSKY, chairman and
CEO of Parkway Corp., will be
honored with the American
Jewish Committee Philadelphia/
Southern New Jersey’s Human
Relations Award at the organization’s
annual meeting on June 23.

Zuritsky, a longtime AJC board
member and a key supporter, was
an obvious candidate to be this
year’s recipient, according to Marcia
Bronstein, regional director of AJC
Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey.

The Human Relations Award “is for
a person who’s near and dear to AJC,
like a family member,” Bronstein said.

“That really does mean Joe, to a T.”
“I am honored, very much honored,”
Zuritsky said. “It’s part of supporting
an organization that I hold in high
value.” Zuritsky, a patron of many local,
national and Israeli organizations, said
he is flattered he was selected for the
award, though he admits that, having
been honored in a similar fashion so
many times over the years, he looks
forward to when he won’t impose on
friends for their support.

“Hopefully, this is the last honor I’ll
get,” he laughed.

Per the AJC, Zuritsky “has been a
stalwart member of AJC’s Board and
Executive Committee for many years.

He is a passionate advocate for AJC’s
mission of protecting Jewish lives
and communities, ensuring a safe
and secure Israel, and advocating for
democratic values and human rights
for all. Joe has long been a supporter
of interfaith and intergroup dialogue,
and a lifelong learner.”
The 2021 annual meeting, AJC’s
77th, will feature a keynote address
from Drexel University President John
A. Fry in the virtual ceremony where
Zuritsky will receive his award.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

Bronstein was not yet AJC’s regional
director when she met Zuritsky for
the first time. Working in development
and engagement, her first contact
with Zuritsky was on a cold call; she
“wanted to tell him a little bit about
who we are and what we do, because
he didn’t know.” Zuritsky agreed to a
meeting, and it was a fruitful one.

The AJC “captured his imagination,”
Bronstein said, by dint of its impact on
local and national politics. Zuritsky,
with his interest in intergroup relat
“He’s a role model, a mentor and
innovator, someone not afraid to
tackle issues,” Bronstein said. “And Joe
embodies what AJC stands for. He is
a centrist.

Zuritsky, for his part, sees the AJC as
a bastion of well-trained, intelligent
representatives of the Jewish people,
bringing a “diplomatic approach” to
sensitive, important issues for Jews
around the world.

“That’s something that the Jewish
people really need: really highly
qualified spokesmen to speak around
the world on Jewish and Israeli issues.

And that’s what the AJC does,” Zuritsky
said. l
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