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Because They Care

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To commemorate his late mother, Leah, Jordan Berman and his wife, Deanna, have set up monetary awards for caregivers at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life’s Mildred Shor Inn, in recognition of the exceptional care she received there during a five-year residency. Deanna Berman (left) and Carol Irvine (right), Abramson Center president and CEO, here congratulate first-year award recipients (from...

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Newsmakers Week of March 14, 2013

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Michael Elkin

A Celebration of Education, the spring gala of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, set for April 25, will fete the achievements and accomplishments of dual honorees Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler and Caryl Levin. Native son Glenn Rigberg is exec producer of the just-released Struck by Lightning , about a high school kid trying to restructure his prosaic life...

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Why Johnny Can Read

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Michael Elkin

Teachers at the Richard E. Rudolph Jr. Preschool of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park recently took part in the Early Childhood Educators of Reform Judaism Conference in Morristown, N.J. Apple-ready are (bottom, from left) Lori Saruya, Miriam Buschbaum, Amy Kieserman and Ilana Diener; and (top, from left) Owa Zaga, Beth Rabinowitz, director of early childhood education at K.I...

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Fore They Are the Sunshine Boys

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Michael Elkin

It’s the Sunshine Boys in the Sunshine State, playing the golf course in Boynton Beach, Fla., rather than puttering aimlessly around the house. Not that they’re not kept busy in Philly, which is home turf for legendary lawyer Murray Shusterman (third from left), who here teams up with (from left) David Axelrod, Al Reet and Chick Kirschbaum, Congregation Adath Jeshurun...

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Strength in Numbers

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Michael Elkin

They could have danced all night — and that says quite a bit about strength and endurance since the Pennsylvania Ballet Company is celebrating its 50th anniversary and company founder Barbara Weissberger her 87th birthday. Here Weissberger is feted with cake and candles by PBC at its new Louise Reed Center for Dance on North Broad Street. Exec director Michael...