Jewish Exponent Names & Faces Feed http://www.jewishexponent.com As a teenager, Larry Holman entered the U.S. Navy with the idea of serving exactly three years and three days -- and never dreamt of making a career of it. By enlisting just before his 18th birthday in 1958, he was assured that his service... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13095/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13095/ Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Entering middle school, as any prepubescent male or female will tell you, can be daunting. In addition to locker codes and complicated class schedules comes hormones, braces and all kinds of new social mores. As a social worker with Montg... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13027/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13027/ Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Matthew Shein doesn't like to treat food as, well, just food. Instead, he likes to emphasize the word "art" in culinary arts. "I view everything that we do here as an art form," explained Shein, standing over a display of lavish wedding c... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12967/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12967/ Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Residents at the nursing home call Doris Grossmann by many names: the "Shabbas lady," the "challah lady." Some call her "rabbi." She always replies back to them that she's not a rabbi, only a teacher -- a vocation she's held for her entire... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12906/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12906/ Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT University of Pennsylvania physics professor Howard Brody -- now retired -- spent the bulk of his career examining the behavior of quarks and electrons through the use of advanced particle accelerators, delving into the laws that govern ene... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12839/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12839/ Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Kim Alexander What do a school guidance counselor and a corporate executive do when they need a change of pace professionally? Why, start their own bakery, of course -- and make sure to bring in the rest of the family as well. Almost fi... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12764/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12764/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Jordan Schwartz was in fifth grade when his mother, Allyson Schwartz, announced to her family that she planned to run for state senate. Though he'd known her to be involved in various committees before, Schwartz described his mother's newl... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12703/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12703/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Following a five-year stint in South Africa where she created a gourmet cookie company from the ground up -- hiring residents of an impoverished township near Cape Town as employees -- Alicia D. Polak is back to market her products and prom... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12646/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12646/ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Smack dab in the center of the Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance rests a whiteboard that serves as a briefing point for staff members and volunteers. Neat rows of colored symbols, like ancient glyphs, adhere to the white spa... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12577/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12577/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Most of the year, Rabbi Eli Strasberg, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Delaware County, looks like your typical Lubavitcher: black hat, black coat, long beard, tzitzit out. But during the weeks leading up to Passover, Strasberg, 29... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12511/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12511/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Just before taking up his saxophone to play, 16-year-old Jordy Freed looked out at the small cafe packed with people. The audience was a sea of faces, so much so that he couldn't even find his mom. He smiled to himself. All his hard work ha... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12443/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12443/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Headlines about Darfur offer only a cursory understanding of the brutal genocide there. For 72-year-old pediatrician Jerry Ehrlich, however, stories of black villagers being tortured at the hands of Arab militias have proven all too real:... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12392/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12392/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT "It's addictive to work with glass. You forget about your body. You forget about yourself." So says Rachel Shoham, who, every day when she re-enters her studio, remains anxious to check the kiln. Since she leaves things to fire overnight,... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12322/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12322/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT When you think about urban greenery, it's probably Central Park -- that oasis of trails, lakes and playgrounds in central Manhattan -- that first comes to mind. But, truth be told, Philadelphia -- with its expansive Fairmount Park system a... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12271/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12271/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Fred Blum rifles through records at the National Archives, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Philadelphia Free Library and the Philadelphia City Archives. He scours official Census records. He finds the links that others missed in th... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12203/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12203/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Like the ancient Athenians during the golden age of early democracy, Harris Sokoloff, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, places great faith in the power of dialogue and collective decision-making. Harris... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12133/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12133/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Jonathan Hertzel with his sculpture, "Rooted Family"Jonathan Hertzel's sculptures look like pillars of metallic fire. They are figures in motion, undulating and mysterious. His bronze sculpture Narrator seems to wrap its way skyward in a tw... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12067/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12067/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Many acrobats can stand on their head, do a split or stretch their legs far behind their heads, but it's a safe bet that most don't try to teach Jewish topics in the process. Yet Lisa Appel is not your average acrobat. At a typical show,... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11989/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11989/ Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Darby LeighDarby Leigh has been an actor, a social worker and a student of comparative religions. But one thing he never thought he could possibly be is a rabbi, and for one reason: He is profoundly deaf. But the 33-year-old is now in his f... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11952/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11952/ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT Lining the walls of photographer Zoe Strauss' dimly lit South Philly studio are images of people and places that have seemingly been left behind by the city's economic resurgence -- pictures of abandoned buildings, discarded mattresses, and... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11860/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11860/ Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT