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The autumn harvest offers an
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 / 6 TISHREI 5781
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LOCAL Jewish Federation
Hires New CFO
Community key for
Nikki DiCaro.

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LOCAL ‘Schitt’s Creek’
Crew Entertains
at Main Event
Cast members clean
up days later at
Emmy Awards.

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LOCAL HIAS PA:
Immigrant Voting Hindered
New regulations
create roadblocks
ahead of November.

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Volume 133
Number 24
Published Weekly Since 1887
Sale Pending for
Abramson Center for
Jewish Life
JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THE MADLYN AND Leonard Abramson
Center for Jewish Life, Abramson Senior
Care’s 72-acre Horsham campus, is set to
be sold in the coming weeks.

The expected buyers, Imperial
Healthcare Group, plan to rename the
324-bed campus as the Horsham Center
for Jewish Life. (Imperial was unable to be
reached for comment by press time.)
Carol Irvine, president and CEO of
Abramson Senior Care, said other changes
planned by Imperial won’t represent a
signifi cant divergence from ACJL’s status
quo. No resident will need to leave the
Horsham campus. Th e majority of the
direct care staff will be retained, and
the on-site commitment to Jewish life —
in the form of kosher meals, rabbinical
services and other comforts that residents
are accustomed to — will remain as is.

“Please know that our nearly 160-year
mission of serving the frailest and neediest
See Abramson, Page 12
Nina Totenberg interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Library of Congress in 2019.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Jewish Community
Remembers Iconic Jurist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
SOPHIE PANZER AND SARAH WILDMAN | JE STAFF
AND JTA
RUFFLED COLLARS IN shop windows.

Heaps of fl owers in front of the Supreme
Court. Millions of dollars in donations to
liberal causes.

Th ese are just some of the tributes
admirers across the country have
dedicated to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
died Sept. 18 from complications of
pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. She
was the fi rst Jewish woman to serve on
the Supreme Court, a tireless advocate for
gender equality, a pop culture icon and
the fi rst Jew to lie in state at the Capitol.

See RBG, Page 12
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