Ellen Glassman: Broomall Resident Builds a Post-COVID Religious School
In 2022, Ellen Glassman, 65, returned to lead the religious school at Congregation Beth El-Ner Tamid. Glassman had served in the same role before...
Sahar Oz: Queen Village Resident Continues to Help Build Society Hill Synagogue
After graduating from Penn State University in 1998, Sahar Oz worked in marketing management. At the time, his mother was teaching post-b’nai mitzvah education...
Bruce Katsiff: Jewish Philly Photographer Looks Back on Lengthy Career
Bruce Katsiff’s parents were Jewish immigrants, so, like many immigrant parents, they cared deeply about education. They wanted all three of their sons to...
Meredith Rose: JFCS Open Arms Adoption Network Director Is Changing Lives
Meredith Rose is the mother of two. The Chestnut Hill resident gave birth to her son, Ethan, 29 years ago. Her daughter, Katherin, joined...
Stacy Jarett Levitan: Leading Disability Advocacy In The Philadelphia Jewish Community
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Stacy Jarett Levitan’s family were active members of United Hebrew Congregation. But when it came time for her...
David Magerman: Lower Merion Philanthropist on Finding His Jewish Path
David Magerman is a man on a Jewish mission.
Since 2016, he has donated upwards of $38 million to build Kohelet Yeshiva, a K-12 Orthodox...
Rabbi Menachem Schmidt: Helping Bring Jewish Values to Generations of Philadelphians
Today, one of the biggest and most well-known Jewish organizations on college campuses is Chabad. From Middlebury to Madison to Missoula, Chabad-Lubavitch centers dot...
Cindy Warkow: Leading Efforts in the World of Women’s Philanthropy
Cindy Warkow never saw herself in Jewish philanthropy. Yet today she serves as chair of Women of Vision, an affinity group of the Jewish...
Rabbi Eric Yanoff: Bala Cynwyd Resident Found Creating Community Is His True Calling
Adath Israel’s Rabbi Eric Yanoff didn’t always know he wanted to be a rabbi. But one summer during college, when Yanoff was working at...
Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein: KI Member and PR Pro Celebrates 3 Decades in Business
Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein was working full time at an advertising and public relations agency in Philadelphia in 1995 when she was due to have her...