The Schwab Holocaust Education Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg is proud to announce its annual Holocaust Essay Contest.  A committee composed of Second Generation members and e...

By Adam Grobman

Following the collapse of the Afghan government, the United States is poised to begin the largest resettlement on American soil in history – and Jewish Harrisburg is a part of it...

By Terri Travers

Sunny skies and smiling people can best sum up the 2021 JCC 5K Run/Walk.  After going “all virtual” last year, the 2021 event offered registrants an option to return to the r...

By Ira Beckerman

About two-thirds into the Shema, there is a portion from Deuteronomy where God promises the Jewish people rain on their land at the right times for their crops and trees, and gras...

By Rabbi Sam Yolen, Congregation Beth Israel (Lebanon)

Last September I turned thirty in quarantine. It was the birthday I had been preparing for since I had moved out to south central Pennsylvani...

Charlotte Chervin, z’l, 98, passed away, on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at the Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut.

Charlotte graduated from Boston University, School of Music in 1944...