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In a historic action, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker appointed Temple University faculty member Quaiser D. Abdullah, CLA ’03, EDU ’07, ’17, as the city’s first-ever director of Muslim engagement during a news conference earlier this month at City Hall. Abdullah, a distinguished educator at the Klein College of Media and Communication and a respected imam in Philadelphia’s
A Jewish school is attempting to exceed the length of a 32-foot-long challah made by Grandma Moses Bakery in Australia, which broke a Guinness World Record in 2019.The post Seeking
This pro-Israel advocacy comes amid amplified concerns over antisemitic attacks in a region that is home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the country.
Both situated on North Broad Street, Temple University and Congregation Rodeph Shalom regularly encounter the injustice and inequities of city life. And they both see it as their mission to help bridge cultural and societal divides experienced in the neighborhood and beyond. As part of that shared mission, the university’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the
"Jews of the United States ... were free ... In a comparatively short time, prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe." —London Jewish Chronicle, 1862