By Kim Kupfer
JFS will be resettling between 25-50 refugees in our community in the coming weeks and we wanted to share information on the project and ways YOU can HELP to welcome our new neighbors. The first wave of refugees will be arriving in Harrisburg between December 24, 2021, and Feb…
Kim Ledger, 77, of Harrisburg, died November 22, 2021, of COVID-19.
A native of Harrisburg, Kim was born December 4, 1943, to the late Samuel and Celia Ledger. Kim was a graduate of William Penn High School and Marietta College, Ohio. He served six years in the U.S. Army Reserves. A certifi…
Samuel H. Yespy, 81, of Camp Hill, passed away on Sunday, November 21, 2021 at Select Specialty Hospital at Camp Hill.
Born on November 8, 1940 in Harrisburg to the late Abe and Ada (Zommitt) Yespy. Sam was a graduate of the former William Penn High School and Rider College. He was the owne…
By Adam Grobman
It wasn’t even Chanukah yet, and the new menorah, placed for the first time in Lancaster’s Penn Square, had already been damaged. Miriam Baumgartner, Board President of the Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, was feeling disheartened.
“When I saw the damage, I was…
By Ann Van Dyke
This speech was originally given at November's Thanksgiving Eve Interfaith Service
When I was a little girl growing up in a farming community in northern PA, the lighting of the candles on the altar of our little Methodist church said, “Quiet your heart and mind. Worship b…
