Last Word: Jewish Federation Co-Chair Gail Norry Leads Jewishly, Inside and Outside the Home
Though she spends her days at work committed to Jewish community growth, the love of Judaism doesn’t stop at Gail Norry’s doorstep.
The co-chair of...
Last Word: Lawyer Roberta ‘Bobbi’ Liebenberg Honored with AJC Judge Learned Hand Award
Studying the Talmud isn’t so different from studying law, according to lawyer Roberta ‘Bobbi’ Liebenberg.
“Studying the Talmud is, obviously, arguing about different viewpoints, which...
YOU SHOULD KNOW…Rabbinical Student Stephanie Breitsman, Inspector of Torah Scrolls
God may have inspired the Torah, but the creator did not actually write the book. That was a human being. Stephanie Breitsman, 32, probably...
You Should Know…Paul Farber
As co-founder and director of Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based public art and history studio nonprofit, Paul Farber is concerned with memory.
According to Farber, 40,...
You Should Know…Trent Works
Young Jewish Philadelphians are experiencing a good problem to have: There are too many options for connection and too little time.
Between Jewish organizations serving...
Last Word: Weitzman Chief Development Officer Jacqueline Glodstein Starts New Chapter
Amid Israel’s Six-Day War, Jacqueline Glodstein, then a child, took her piggy bank to her Long Island, New York, synagogue with her parents and...
You Should Know…Jamey Roberti
Jamey Roberti spent much of his adolescence on a skateboard, daydreaming that OutKast, Jay-Z and MF Doom provided the soundtrack to his choreography of...
Last Word: Jewish Learning Venture Honoree Harold Berger Supports the Next Generation of Jews
In the early 1920s, Archibald, a town of 5,000 in Northeast Pennsylvania, was home to one Jewish family: the Bergers.
As Harold Berger, now 97...
You Should Know…Gevura Davis
Rebbetzin Gevura Davis jokes that she and her family are available 24/6, every hour, every day of the week, except for Shabbat. But even...
Last Word: Lou Moyerman a Lifelong Jewish Athlete
Lou Moyerman has competed in the Maccabiah Games in two sports: judo, which he’s practiced for 58 of his 70 years of life, and...
