Community Review

Artist in Residency Program Returns to JCC This Winter

By Cheryl Yablon

For the last five years, the JCC Senior Adult Club has participated in an “Artist in Residency Program.”  It is an incredible opportunity for our seniors to work with Cheryl Kugler, a professional artist.

The theme for the 2022 program is “Nature Nurtures the Artist…

Senior Update 1.14.22

by Roberta Krieger

I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Before I go into detail and fill you in about all the interesting programs that our great Senior Advisor, Cheryl Yablon, scheduled for us, I must start out with a big APOLOGY to Anita Post, who I neglected to mention has …

PJC Applauds Support for Non-Profit Security Grant Program

The Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition (PJC) commends Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania legislative caucuses for a new budgetary allocation of $4.5 million in further support of the Non-Profit Security Grant program (Act 83 of 2019).  Act 83 of 2019 is a five-year program to help improve the se…

Brenner Family ELC Meets the Mark with "Star 4" Rating

By Adam Grobman


The Brenner Family Early Learning Center at the Harrisburg JCC has been re-certified as a STAR 4 learning center through Keystone STARS, a program of Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning.

The STARS (Standards, Training/Professional Development, A…

ELENA MISTISHEN

Elena Kathryn Mistishen, 14, unexpectedly passed away on Friday, December 10, 2021. She was a freshman at Bishop McDevitt High School and attended St. Margaret Mary School. Elena was born on Valentine's Day in 2007 at Holy Spirit Hospital during an ice storm.

Elena was an avid reader and es…