Depending on your demographic, Noah Baumbach’s latest film, the affecting character study Frances Ha, will quickly bring to mind either Woody Allen’s Manhattan or Lena Dunham’s HBO series, Girls.

At the second annual Prayer Breakfast for the Second Chance Foundation, Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, founding rabbi of Kol Tzedek in West Philadelphia, was chosen to give the closing benediction to the 430 politicians, religious leaders, heads of nonprofits and activists seated in the second-floor ballroom of the First District Plaza in University City. The breakfast is one of the...