Keeping our Community Connected

Weekly messages from Jason Moss, our Executive Director.

February 8, 2022

Hard to believe that Superbowl Sunday is almost here. While I am saddened that I won’t be able to cheer on my San Francisco 49ers since the Rams beat them to make it to this Sunday’s game, I am still looking forward to the game. The anticipation for the game is palpable around town with …

February 1, 2022

Tomorrow is a big day… at least in Punxsutawney, PA. That’s right… tomorrow is Groundhog Day. You know, the day where Phil, emerges from his burrow in Gobbler’s Knob to see if he sees his shadow. According to legend, if he sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter, but …

January 18, 2022

Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote about the power and beauty of Shabbat in his classic work The Sabbath. In it, he described Shabbat as a sanctuary of time, a place to experience holiness, and a place to feel at peace. 

 

This Shabbat… that peace was shattered, once again, when four peopl…

January 11, 2022

Yogi Berra, considered by many to be one of the all-time great players and “characters” of the game (even if he was a Yankee), is attributed to have said, "It's like déjà vu, all over again."

 

I was thinking about this as I got up this morning and saw that the US COVID-19 hospitali…

January 4, 2022

When 2021 began I don’t think many of us thought or could have conceived of the idea that once the ball dropped in Times Square in 2022, we would find ourselves in the middle of another COVID-related surge. And yet, here we are. The good news is that at least this time, a significant major…