The Rundown | Feb. 4-11
Valentine’s Day – Old City style
Show your love for the ones you love and Old City businesses this Valentine’s Day. Be sure to check with the businesses before your visit, wear a mask, keep your physical distance, and follow all federal and local safety guidelines and protocols. And, if your business has a Valentine’s Day special coming up, email PW at mail@philadelphiaweekly.com by Monday to make our already-long, still-growing roundup of Valentine’s Day specials in the city to be published next week.
Chocolate & Beer: A Valentine’s Event
Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Meet Quaker History? Join Arch Street Meeting House for an extraordinary craft beer and Cadbury chocolate tasting on Friday, Feb. 12 at 7pm. Designed for two, enjoy a relaxing evening for you and your sweetheart as ASMH staff and volunteers create an amazing, personalized experience by hand-delivering your Valentine’s treats the day before the event. Tick
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Around the Jewish World (part 3): Tiny Dubrovnik Community Searches for Stolen Archives A view of the port of Dubrovnik. (Merten/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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Dr. Bruno Horovic is a busy man. In addition to serving as head of the Jewish community here, Horovic is working on turning Dubrovnik’s historic synagogue into a museum of Judaica.
He is also attempting to locate the city’s Jewish archives, which were stolen by the Nazis in 1941.
It is all in a day’s work for the 72-year-old retired pulmonary diseases specialist who leads a community of just 45 members.
Despite the small size of the Jewish community in this city on the Adriatic Sea, Horovic is convinced that it has a bright future.
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