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Oct 20, 2020

2020 Albert Hursh Award Recipient: Alyce Spector

By Adam Grobman

Alyce Spector’s Jewish identity is rooted in compassion.

While she attended Hebrew School three times a week between the Harrisburg JCC and Beth El Temple, she says she learned more about the values of Judaism by watching her parents in their Paxtang home. In the 1940s, a…

Oct 1, 2020

Dance with Alicia: Popular Fitness Class Bounces Back to JCC

By Adam Grobman

Pam Suter has been a member of the Harrisburg JCC for over twenty years.

“I’ve been with the JCC through a lot of difficulties, including the flood in 2011,” she says. She adds that in terms of difficulty, “this pandemic beats the flood, hands down.”

So when she …

Sep 17, 2020

SAT Testing at Silver Academy

By Jane Dalton

 

Any student who because of religious reasons is unable to take the

SAT tests on Saturday may request Sunday testing.  Silver Academy is open for Sunday testing on the following dates:  September 27, October 18, November 8, 2020 and March 14, May 9, June 6, 2021.   A …

Sep 17, 2020

Senior Update 9.11.20

By Roberta Krieger

It’s been a long time (much too long) since I have made an attempt to let you know how we, the seniors, have been doing in times of COVID...

Some of you have been joining us on our Zoom adventures as part of our Senior "check-in" programs on Tuesday (zoom meeting numbe…

Aug 26, 2020

For Everything There is a Season

by Mark Wilf, JFNA Chair and Eric Fingerhut, JFNA President/CEO

Originally printed in Jerusalem Post on July 17, 2020

 

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). We will never forget the spring of COVID-19. We lost loved ones. …