To the Editor:
The historic Jacob and Esther Stiffel Senior, which has been located in the heart of South Philly, 604 Porter St., since 1928, must raise $200,000 by June 30, or it will be forced to shut its doors. The area’s thriving senior community will be devastated by its closing and leave the Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, African-American and Vietnamese members with no place to go to socialize and have assistance. Save Our Stiffel has formed to meet this immediate challenge. We are scrambling to secure tax-free donation from caring individuals, philanthropists and corporations with the pledge of future funds to ensure these aging seniors have neighborhood access to this unique and historic center. Please spread the word.
Tax-deductable donations can be made to:
Stiffel JCC Senior Center
Attention Susan Hoffman
604 Porter St.
Philadelphia, PA 19148.
Visit www.saveourstiffel.org.
Save Our Stiffel Committee
South Philadelphia
“I’ve not been coming for long, but my heart is already here,” Estelle Goldstein said April 28 at the Jacob and Esther Stiffel Senior Center, 604 Porter St.
Thank you for publishing the letter by Robert Rivera-Amezola (“Education Defense,” 5/19/11). He clearly summarizes the assault taking place in Pennsylvania and elsewhere on public education.
To the Editor: Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Japan wisely protect their cultural heritage. The cultural heritage of America has not been protected. It has been buried in diversity since the 1970s, a movement strongly pushed by socialists, politicians, bureaucrats, leftist educators and journalists.
To the Editor: Time and again, I pass by pizza shops throughout Philly with front doors wide open without a screen. You might not see any flies when you walk into your neighborhood pizza shop, but that does not mean a fly did not come by earlier and drop something off on the slice of pizza, in the saucepan or maybe the mozzarella cheese container. Perhaps that little dark speck on your pizza is not an original ingredient to that homemade Italian recipe.
To the Editor: It is enough that everyone (almost) believes it’s acceptable to speak on their cell phones anywhere and everywhere, but that other contingency who deem it perfectly OK to have an obscenity-saturated, complete verbal brawl four feet from the windows of your home have achieved a whole new level of etiquette assault. And go ahead, ask, tell or suggest they stop.
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