Keeping our Community Connected

Weekly messages from Jason Moss, our Executive Director.

February 20, 2024

President’s Day was always a weird holiday for me. When I was growing up, we usually got off school for both President Lincoln’s AND President Washington’s birthdays. I don’t remember when we stopped celebrating President Washington’s birthday by itself and had his lumped in with P…

February 13

I taught Sunday School, Hebrew School, and even a once-a-week class at Weizmann Day School for over ten years. It may sound funny, but my goal for each class was to leave the students a little bit confused as they walked out of class. The reason for this is that I wanted them to continue thi…

February 6, 2024

Hi…, my name is Jason Moss, and I am a proud member of the Jewish community.

My Judaism is something I have been proud of for as long as I can remember. I was THAT kid who loved Sunday School and Hebrew School. I never thought of it as something I HAD to do…rather… it was something I …

January 30, 2024

This past Saturday, January 27, was UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As we have done for the past six years, our Jewish Federation brought the community together for our Sixth Annual Every Person Has a Name – our 25-hour Holocaust Commemoration and Vigil that the City of Pasade…

January 23, 2024

As our two daughters have grown up, they know that I'm who they should ask anytime they have a question about history or need help on a history-related assignment. And when they have a science or math question, they need to ask my wife.

 

I do not know when I realized that I found history…