As of March 4, 2022, the Harrisburg JCC is no longer requiring visitors to wear masks, with exceptions of the Brenner Family Early Learning Center, youth programming involving children under 5, and...

By Kim Kupfer

Brittany Durben started college as an engineering major, but found during her first year that engineering didn’t fit for her.  She kept being misidentified as a teaching or social...

By Adam Grobman

In February 2022, Brent Stine and Corey Stein were both preparing to compete in the International Powerlifting Association’s PA State Championships in York, PA.

The two Jewish c...

By Adam Grobman

In Summer 2020, Rabbi Ariana Capptauber became Beth El Temple Harrisburg’s first woman rabbi.

Now, nearly two years later, she will officially be installed in the role, with a w...

By Rabbi Sam Yolen, Congregation Beth Israel (Lebanon)

On average, I receive about two or three calls a week from people seeking answers.

“Rabbi!” the person on the other line cries, “With ...

Michael A. Sand passed away on May 15, 2022, surrounded by loving family. Mr. Sand was beloved by family, friends, by many co-organizers in the civil rights organizations he founded or co-founded, ...