2016

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Website: jsquaredfood.com
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We specialize in catering and food services for events of all sizes, whether it’s an intimate dinner party to a large affair. We work with you to create a custom-designed menu and work with all kinds of dietary restrictions and food allergies, especially Kosher, vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free. We will do all the shopping, prep, cooking, setup, serving, and clean up. All you have to do is invite your guests. We also do personal cheffing, and would be thrilled to cook you meals for the week, the day or even just make you a delicious dinner one night. So don’t hesitate to contact us–we’re ready to feed you!

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Website: meetup.com/JPSP-Jewish-Professionals-of-Suburban-Philadelphia
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Shalom Philly Burbs! Philadelphia is far enough away that it can be tough to attend city events on a typical weeknight. Combine rush hour traffic with pricey parking and it seems like you might never get to that monthly happy hour in Rittenhouse. Well fret no more! JPSP would like to help you connect to the suburban social Jewish community! The goal of this group is to provide 20s/30s Jewish professionals in the Greater Philadelphia Suburbs (Montco, Bucks, Chesco, Delco) with fun social events, networking opportunities and social action experiences that promote Jewish culture, community and religious values. We host everything from happy hours, trivia nights and movie nights to monthly Kabbalat Shabbat dinners, potlucks and outdoor activities. Whether you are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, or Reconstructionist, single, married, in a relationship, observant or not, synagogue-affiliated or not, this is the group for you. This group is partially funded by the Bux-Mont Neighborhood Kehillah in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

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Website: jsquaredfood.com
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We specialize in catering and food services for events of all sizes, whether it’s an intimate dinner party to a large affair. We work with you to create a custom-designed menu and work with all kinds of dietary restrictions and food allergies, especially Kosher, vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free. We will do all the shopping, prep, cooking, setup, serving, and clean up. All you have to do is invite your guests. We also do personal cheffing, and would be thrilled to cook you meals for the week, the day or even just make you a delicious dinner one night. So don’t hesitate to contact us–we’re ready to feed you!

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The New Parent Tribe aims to provide a friendly social network, targeting parents with children ages 3 and under who have a connection to Judaism in the greater Philadelphia area.

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The New Parent Tribe aims to provide a friendly social network, targeting parents with children ages 3 and under who have a connection to Judaism in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Mz.Initiative, was inspired by the Philadelphia 2015 Mz. Fest. Its mission is social innovation through artistic exploration and is currently a hub for female centric projects, education for young female leaders and advocate for equal opportunity artistic employment.

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Amber Emory is a Philadelphia-based theater artist and entrepreneur. Her first company, Creative Caretakers, is a co-op of artists who have a passion for working with children through in-house childcare, group babysitting, and community partnerships. She received her BA in Theater with a concentration in directing from Temple University and will be starting her MFA in Museum Exhibition Planning and Design at University of the Arts in the Fall of 2017. As a freelance theater artist, she has worked with a diverse array of Philadelphia Theater companies including the Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, The Wilma Theater, The Renegade Company, Pig Iron and Found Theater Company.

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Website: altneuarts.com
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AltNeu Arts exists to create and connect the space between artists, the arts & communities in the name of social good. Initial actions focus on music as means to empower & promote social change. Through the use of traditional venues & repurposed spaces, AltNeu Arts provides pop-up concerts, workshops, production & more to communities seeking to make the world a little more music-filled.

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The MUSIC hails from the east & west, rooted in the sounds of a pastoral upbringing in the sprawling suburbs of the Garden State juxtaposed against the sounds, stories, & struggles of the seaside city of Jaffa. The MUSICIAN simply wants to move you with music. Ami (pronounced AH-mee) has been described as “a cross between Randy Newman and David Broza. He has traveled all over the world and spent a significant amount of time using music to build peace and promote social change. Ami’s performances capture your body, heart and mind. It’s old music; it’s new music. It’s the music. Come inside for a listen. The EDUCATOR uses music as a lens to understand society, culture and ultimately, ourselves. Let’s move our minds as much as we move our bodies to music. Inroads to empathy and mutual understanding form through the sharing of song and rhythm. It is not only a passion to Ami but an obligation to embolden music in powerful and transformative educational experiences.

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Coach:  E. Scott Aronow
Peer: Jaime Bassman

Website: cookielabphilly.com
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Cookie Lab Philly creates delicious, uniquely decorated cookies, using all kosher ingredients. I also run cookie decorating workshops for birthday parties, moms’ nights out, and school fundraisers.

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Debbie Werlin is a Minnesota native who, after time in Boston and New York, has lived in Mount Airy for the last three years. Debbie is a graphic designer, cookie artist, and mother.

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Coach: Matt Weiss
Peer: Ariella Werden-Greenfield

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Metamorphosis is a circus centric dance studio, utilizing alternative and unique forms of fitness to help people develop trust in themselves and others and physical, mental and emotional strength. Using special apparatus, like the aerial hammock, silks, and Lyra, students will learn to challenge themselves while developing new skills and community.

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Karli is an artist, a dancer, a teacher and forever a student. Her love of the arts has manifested itself through the use of circus and aerial arts, allowing her to live her life off the ground and upside down.

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Coach:  Jeffrey Scott 
Peer: Jonathan Wetstein

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Bomze uses only the highest-quality ingredients in his seasonally-inspired hummuses, including Soom Foods’ tahini, locally-grown chickpeas, and produce from area farms, and donates all profits to farms and gardens in Philadelphia in order to contribute to the greater sustainability efforts of our city.

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Michael Bomze is a loving son, brother, grandson, teacher, and friend. He is a genuinely good-hearted Philadelphian with a vagabond soul who has a special connection with food. The hummus venture is his tzedakah.

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Coach: Benjamin Wanger
Peer: Sara Goldfuss

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The Point is a weekend intensive program for middle schoolers that exposes them to a variety of healing arts in order to find their creative language. Through this program, teens will have the opportunity to use drama, dance, art, music, and writing to reveal their thoughts and feelings through an outlet they may never have known existed before.

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Siona is a teacher, theater artist, blogger, marketing consultant, caretaker, and since 2014 a proud Philadelphian. She is excited by excelsior: the idea of going ever upward, and finding a silver lining.

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Coach: Dan Fingerhut
Peer: Jess Edelstein

Website: poochkaboose.org
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Pooch Kaboose, a non-profit/no-kill dog rescue is a resource to the community, finding dogs loving, responsible matches that will provide permanent homes for dogs. We aid the prospective adopter with information regarding care and responsibility of bringing a dog into their lives/homes.

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An energetic, tenacious entrepreneur striving to produce positive changes in individuals as well as her community.From people to politics, Torri Grice helps individuals get healthier, influences the community by being the Ward leader of the 54th Ward 11th district, as well as helps dogs that are abandoned. Leaving imprints that impact excites her.

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Website: phillywomenstheatrefest.org
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Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival fosters and encourages women in the performing arts by offering unique opportunities for exposure, professional, artistic and personal development and a platform for performance.

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Polly Rose Edelstein has been living and working in the Philadelphia region for the past five years. She works as a freelance theater director, teaching artist, and administrator and currently resides in West Philadelphia. Polly received her BFA in Theatre Arts from Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO. She is also a recent graduate of the Masters of Arts in Theatre with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management program at Villanova University where she worked as a graduate assistant for two years. Some of her favorite directing projects include Court-Martial at Fort Devens (Steel River Playhouse) Eurydice (Villanova University), Trappings (FringeArts), Stew You and How He Lied to Her Husband (Old Academy Players) and Eden (Crack the Glass Theatre Company). She has been a featured speaker at Villanova’s TEDx event (Theatre Beyond Theater), the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium, and the Villanova Showcase.

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Website: theskateboardacademy.com
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Lifelong skateboarders and professional educators all benefiting directly from the teachings skateboarding has taught them! The Skateboard Academy of Philadelphia also offers skateboard workshops, parties, edutainment, and promotions, to appeal to people of all ages and skill level.

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AJ is a true renaissance man of skateboarding! Aside from being the founder of The Skateboard Academy of Philadelphia he is a successful event organizer & mc (World Championships / Contest Series /Fundraisers etc.), top skateboard show performer (over 2000+ shows world wide), skateboard activist, product / park designer, former top level amateur and current top level pro freestyle competitor (innovative and creative tricks) and skateboard educator! In addition to all his skateboarding accomplishments and entrepreneurial spirit, AJ is also a Industrial Design Engineer and STEAM Edutainment professional who is always on the road or implementing a new initiative somewhere to better serve the skateboarding community.