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Hebrew School
Teacher Celebrates
60 Years In
the Classroom



E
very year, Steven Horwits asks himself if he wants to
keep teaching Hebrew school at Congregation Or Ami in
Lafayette Hill.

By the time he gets his new contract, the answer is always
“yes.” Th is year marks Horwits’ 60th year in Or Ami’s classrooms.

He has taught generations of families, and many students tell
him he had their older siblings, parents and even grandparents
in his classes.

“Steve has been an amazing teacher and is a much-loved
member of our congregation,” said Stefanie Bock, education
director at the synagogue.

Horwits, who turns 78 this month, was born in Manayunk.

His parents were founding members of the synagogue where
he now teaches, which was previously known as Ivy Ridge
Jewish Community Center. He lives in the home they bought in
Roxborough when he was 13.

Horwits was one of the only Jewish students at Roxborough
High School, and while he made friends with his non-Jewish
classmates, he valued the sense of community he found at his
synagogue. When he was still enrolled in high school, his mother encour-
aged him to attend a Jewish teacher training program, thinking
it would be a nice side job he could always turn to in the future.

He said the program focused more on classroom management
than on Judaism, and he took the bus from Roxborough to the
class at the corner of Broad and Pine streets every Sunday.

In September of 1961, he was called to Or Ami to substitute
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