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Upscale Kosher Eatery to Hit the Main Line

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Deborah Hirsch

One of the community's best-known day school philanthropists plans to open an upscale glatt kosher restaurant and catering company in Merion this summer with two star-studded chefs as his creative consultants. "I never wanted to be in the restaurant business," confessed David Magerman, a computer programmer from Gladwyne who formed the Kohelet Foundation, which has funneled about $15 million over...

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A Kosher Renaissance?

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Deborah Hirsch

Beyond Citron and Rose, a minor kosher renaissance seems to be brewing around the region. The owners of Max & David's have purchased and kashered a former Mexican food truck that could soon be vending smoked brisket sandwiches, wraps, salads, pareve desserts and dairy-free gelato. Most likely, it'll be located somewhere between the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University starting...

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Training His Lens on Philadelphia

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Michael Elkin

Did Eran Kolirin expect a big brass band to trumpet his arrival last week as a visiting scholar at Temple University? No, chuckles the award-winning Israeli director of the acclaimed film The Band's Visit ; no band in sight. There was, however, the music of movies as he set the scene as a participant in the Schusterman Visiting Artist Program,...

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The Golem at Your Seder?

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Michael Elkin

Now this is one big matzah ball hanging out there. The Golem is the monster mash of all monster tales, a mythological Jewish figure centuries old -- with actual origins extending some 2,000 years -- whose mud makeup was only missing a cucumber or two to qualify him as progenitor of the modern-day spa master. Built as a protector of...

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Obama Launches Local Jewish Outreach

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Bryan Schwartzman

With the GOP looking ahead to its April 24 presidential primary in Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign officially kicked off its Philly Jewish outreach efforts by convening a Main Line meeting of roughly 30 Jewish Democratic insiders. Ira Forman, a former director of the National Jewish Democratic Council who is heading up Jewish outreach for the campaign, met earlier...