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PHILADELPHIA, PA -- (March 5, 2008) Rebecca Rosenthal
(lubavitch.com/LNS)
Children With Special Needs and Their Parents Applaud Chabad's Friendship Circle
“A model for a Jewish People unified by shared goals and ideals,” is how Dr. Talya Fishman describes Friendship Circle of Chabad of the Delaware Valley.

Before a crowd of 350 at the Friendship Circle banquet on Sunday night, Dr. Fishman, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Pennsylvania, credited Friendship Circle, a project of Guideline Services-Lubavitch House, with helping the community, “discover that what we have in common must be cultivated together if we, as individuals and as a community, are to rise to our potential.”
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March 06, 2008 - Jared Shelly, Staff Writer
Teen Volunteers Feted at Recognition Event
After four years of hanging out together on a weekly basis, Sammy -- a 16-year-old who is autistic -- knows the drill exactly once fellow teenager Avriel Finder walks through his front door.

"We do puzzles, eat popcorn and watch some Disney movie," said Finder, an 18-year-old senior at Lower Merion High School.
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