Elkins Park News

The great architect was a font of ideas, but he rarely got the chance to fulfill them in Philly December 31, 2009 - Robert Leiter, Literary Editor The master himself, and one of his drawings for the unrealized Mikveh Israel synagogue SPEAKING VOLUMES A lovely confluence of elements occurred recently in the world of architecture, and both of them, ...

On a Sunday in June, The Inquirer published my "Personal Journey" about a visit to the Krakow ghetto during a concert tour with the men's choir from Congregation Beth Sholom in Elkins Park.

Deborah Caputo Rosen and David Mayer, and Theodore and Toni Rosen of Bryn Mawr announce the engagement of their daughter, Dr.

Frances Gordon was 85, looked 70 and was never, ever sick. "She had at least another ten years in her," says her daughter, Eve Goren.

To everything there is a season and this Christmas Day two area churches teamed to make it a time to give to Philadelphiaa TMs homeless.

Frances Gordon, a retired social worker and the daughter of Polish immigrants, was killed Nov.

THERE ARE now only eight hospitals offering maternity services in the Philadelphia region.

Elkins Park native and Cheltenham High grad Josh Fattal and his two fellow hikers will be put on trial in Iran for spying, the country's foreign minister said Monday.

Frances Gordon , with daughter Eve Goren. Gordon was struck by a hit-run driver and left to die in Elkins Park last week.

Last month, Josh Winheld made the final revisions to his master's thesis on handicapped accessibility, a subject he began researching at age 10, when Duchenne muscular dystrophy forced him into a wheelchair.

Why attack the settlers? Sir, - I wish the media would strike the word "settler" from their vocabulary .

A week after the hit-and-run crash that killed an 85-year-old pedestrian in Elkins Park, Cheltenham police yesterday released more details of the suspect and van believed to be involved.

Police released pictures of a van similar to the on they're looking for. ELKINS PARK, Pa.

Joaquin Rivera playing guitar during a Good Friday processional in 2003. He was robbed as he was dying in the waiting room of an emergency room.

Rabbi Joshua Toledano, a scion of a rabbinic family that traces its roots back to Spain before the Inquisition, spent more than 30 years in the Philadelphia region in a variety of roles, including kosher supervisor and congregational rabbi.

An elderly woman killed in a hit-and-run accident while crossing a busy street in Cheltenham Township was identified yesterday as Frances Gordon of Elkins Park.

An Elkins Park woman chose to spend part of her 85th birthday Monday at her local library.

Police near Philadelphia are looking for the driver of a van who hit an elderly pedestrian, then fled the scene.

An unidentified woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Elkins Park late yesterday afternoon, police said.

At about 5:00 p.m. on Monday a pedestrian walking on York Road in the area of Church Road in Elkins Park in Montgomery County was hit by a passing vehicle.