Bryan Schwartzman

Staff Writer

True to His Roots

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Arlen Specter, a lifelong squash player — he famously played even while undergoing chemotherapy treatments — used to stake out choice territory on the court. He was, according to his partners, as aggressive in the game as he was in life. Edward. H Rosen, a friend of Specter’s since the late 1950s, recalled a game on Election Day in 1969,...

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Casey Makes His Case

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Bryan Schwartzman

Sen. Bob Casey is seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate and is facing Tom Smith, a entrepreneur in the coal industry from Western Pennsylvania. Casey is a socially conservative Democrat who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, where he has pressed for sanctions against Iran. For much of the past year, the race has been fairly quiet, but...

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Wharton Launches Site on Israeli Innovations

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Bryan Schwartzman

The award-winning, web-based business journal run by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is launching its latest spinoff, this one with a focus on innovation in Israel. Penn marked the launch of Israel Knowledge@Wharton — a companion site to Knowledge@Wharton — with an Oct. 12 program on campus. Lawrence Zicklin, an investment manager, philanthropist and New York University professor offered...

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From Interrogating Warlords to Reciting Torah

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Bryan Schwartzman

Retired Lt. Col. Kathy Brill has interrogated an Afghan warlord and experienced firsthand one of the most violent periods of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as the Overbrook Park resident — who is barely five feet tall — tells it, she was nervous, if not outright terrified, to step into a synagogue. After decades away from congregational life and...

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Livni Visits Philly Amid Political Speculation

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Bryan Schwartzman

A swanky new ballroom on North Broad Street is quite a distance from Tzipi Livni’s usual political home turf. But during her Oct. 14 speech here, Israel’s onetime foreign minister and deputy prime minister sounded an awful lot like a candidate. Maybe that’s because a marquee politician — even one who is out of office — may just automatically come...

Profile

Bryan Schwartzman has been reporting on the Jewish community of Philadelphia since 2003. He writes about trends in politics, religion and spirituality, philanthropy and sometimes dabbles in sports and the arts.

He has received numerous awards from the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Journalists, the Jewish American Press Association and other organizations.

A native New Yorker, he earned a master’s degree in modern Jewish history and literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is also a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Contact

215-832-0743

bschwartzman@jewishexponent.com

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