Steven Schauder, Executive Director, Jewish Family Service
I’d like to highlight something that you might not have ever considered-- the whole miracle of Passover begins with the adoption of a baby. In an effort to save her son’s life, an unnamed Jewish mother has her child placed near …
By Elaine Strokoff, JFS Director of Financial Assistance & Food Security
Since 2017, through the generosity of donors, Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg supported some of the most vulnerable members of our community through the Back on Track Initiative and Project Lift.
Back…
By Mary Peterson
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the voice you hear on the phone and the face you see when you walk in the door.
I am the front office staff. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have been in the Jewish Family Service office working in the quiet trying to keep …
By Marjorie Koch, Adult Therapist, Jewish Family Service
The question I get asked most often by my clients is: “How do you listen to people’s problems all day?” This always makes me smile as I have never viewed my role as a psychotherapist in that way. When I make the contract…
By Bryna Sherr
I am the daughter of a Holocaust Survivor.
There are few people my age who can say that, as my mother was a little girl when she and my grandparents escaped the Nazis. She was born in Uzbekistan before she and my grandparents came to the United States via a displaced persons…
