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Rabbi Emeritus Returns to KI for Book Talk Along With Weitzman CEO - Philadelphia Jewish Exponent

5 days ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Join Rabbi Lance Sussman on May 7 for a discussion of his new book, enriching the community with his insights and experience.
Jacob Zieper Perelman Teacher Dives Headfirst Into Jewish Life in Philly

1 week ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterJacob Zieper is young for a teacher, but even younger for a bar mitzvah tutor. His own bar mitzvah was only a little more than a dozen years ago. And when he prepares preteen students to read their own Torah portions, he approaches it with as much if not more passion than he did for his own. “The students are pretty confident and I think part of it is [that] I’m very gung-ho,” he said.
At Tifereth Israel, the Purpose Is in The Name

1 week ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterAt Tifereth Israel, which means “glory of Israel,” in Bensalem, the congregation’s love for Israel is paramount. Forty-six-year member and Bensalem resident Bruce Toben said that most of the congregation has been to Israel and many have family members there. The family members of legendary lone soldier Michael Levin are also members at Tifereth Israel. Levin was the only American to die in service for Israel in the second Lebanon War. That was in 2006.
Andre Krug: KleinLife CEO Uses His Past to Fuel His Mission Today

1 week ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterAndre Krug is the president and CEO of KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia. While he has risen to the top position at the Northeast Philadelphia community center, he first came to the place he affectionately calls “Klein” the same way as so many others: as a refugee, looking for Jewish community in his new country. “Klein was the first place we went because they gave us refugees from the former Soviet Union a year of free membership,” he said.
Josh Shapiro, Family Escape Possible Arson Attack at Governor's Residence

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Jarrad Saffren

In the early morning hours after the first night of Passover, Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, and his family were able to evacuate the Governor’s Residence without injury during a fire, according to PA State Police. Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, members of the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire responded to a report of a fire at the North Front Street mansion Harrisburg, per the state police’s press release.
Kaiserman JCC Invests in Million-Dollar Upgrades to Gym

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterWhen Kobe Bryant hooped at the Kaiserman JCC, there was no air conditioning. The same holds true for amateur athletes, Jewish or not, who have exercised at the center in Wynnewood since it opened in 1971. But that’s set to change. Beginning this week, the JCC is starting work on an expansive one-million-dollar renovation project that is half-funded by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it will see the JCC add an HVAC system and more to its exercise area.
Does the US Government Have the Right to Condition Funding to Universities?

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Alan Dershowitz

By Alan DershowitzMany left-wing university faculty members (a redundancy if there ever was one) are rebelling against the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funding to universities that tolerate antisemitic actions against their Jewish students. They condemned the acting president of Columbia for accepting some of the administration’s conditions for restoring the $400 million that it threatened to cut, and she was forced to resign.
Four Questions Files: Details From the Youngest Who Have Had to Ask Them

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterEach year at Seder tables across the world, youngest siblings prepare for their moment. Tradition dictates that the holiday’s essential four questions, which initiate the discussion of Passover’s meaning, are asked by the youngest participant who is able. For Lafayette Hill resident Rich Eden, the duty landed on him as a child at the seders held by his father’s family. What’s unique, though, is that Eden never stopped saying it.
Sarah Kolker: Germantown Resident Is Here for the Tough Conversations

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterSarah Kolker is Jewish and always has been, but her view of the world is informed by other traditions as well. Growing up, she was familiar with the Talmud, but the adults around her also read the Quran and the Bible and discussed all three. The artist and activist, who lives in Germantown, said that this upbringing helped inspire her to study visual arts and cultural studies as an undergrad and social justice activism and more art as a graduate student.
At Gratz, 96-Year-Old Student Is Embracing Adult Education

2 weeks ago | jewishexponent.com | Andrew Guckes

Andrew Guckes | Staff WriterGene Hoffman is 96 years old, but the Gratz College donor, graduate and student was taking classes in 2020 when the pandemic moved everything online. For someone who first started school around the time of the Great Depression, one might think the adjustment to Zoom-only schooling would be tough. Hoffman said the opposite. “I rather enjoyed it!” he said. “It was easy! And it was very enjoyable.