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June 8 - Opening Ceremony and Scribing Visit # 1
June 9 - Scribing Visit # 2
Sept 7 - Scribing Visit # 3
Sept 8 - Scribing Visit # 4
Dec 7 - Closing Ceremony and Scribing Visit # 5
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Upcoming Events

Passover

Thursday 17

Fifth Day of Passover

Chol Hamoed, Intermediate Day of Passover

7:15 pm | Mincha / Maariv. In-person only.

Friday 18

Sixth Day of Passover

Chol Hamoed, Intermediate Day of Passover

Candle lighting 7:31 pm.

Saturday 19

Seventh Day of Passover

Chol Hamoed, Intermediate Day of Passover

9:30 am | Shabbat/Festival Morning Service.

In person and on Zoom.

7:35 pm | Mincha, followed by Maariv and a modified Havdalah. In-person only. Please note: due to the restrictions of the holiday, there will be no Zoom Havdalah.

Candle lighting for eighth day of Passover after 8:31 pm.

Sunday 20

Eighth Day of Passover

NO GESHER.

9:30 am | Festival Morning Services, including Yizkor, Memorial Prayers. Michael Heiman will share reflections on his mother’s experience during the Kindertransport during the Shoah. In-person and on Zoom.

7:35 pm | Mincha, followed by Maariv and Havdalah. In-person only.

Passover ends at 8:31 pm. Chametz can be eaten and allowed to be brought back after 9:00 pm.

Shabbat Chapel Minyan!

Saturday, April 19th

11:00 am at Chisuk Emuna

Please join us this coming Saturday for our monthly shabbat chapel minyan at 11:00 AM. Our Gesher director, Mandy Cheskis, will be leading a discussion on Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs, which is traditionally recited on the Shabbat during Pesach.

Shabbaton

Saturday, April 26th

to honor Chisuk Emuna's

Chevra Kadisha ("sacred society")

On Saturday, April 26, our Shabbat morning service will include some brief reflections regarding the work of Chisuk Emuna’s Chevra Kadisha, followed by lunch. Our purpose is to educate fellow congregants as well as to honor and express our gratitude to these dedicated volunteers who ensure the respectful and dignified care of our departed loved ones.

It’s our hope that this event may lead to an expansion of our roster of active members.

Please consider making a contribution in their honor which helps offset the cost of a special luncheon. Click here to give and indicate it is for the Shabbaton lunch. Or send your check directed to “Shabbaton” to Chisuk Emuna Congregation, 3219 Green Street, Harrisburg PA 17110.

Kindly RSVP by April 18 to info@chisukemuna.org.

This Week: April 17-26

Thursday 17 - Fifth Day of Passover

7:15 pm | Maariv / Evening Service.

In-person only.

Friday 18 - Sixth Day of Passover

Candle lighting 7:31pm

Saturday 19 - Seventh Day of Passover

9:30 am | Shabbat Morning Service,

11:00 am | Shabbat Chapel Minyan - this month led by Mandy Cheskis on the Song of Songs.

In-person and on Zoom.

7:35 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service followed by learning and Ma'ariv / Evening Service.

In-person only.

Please note: due to the restrictions of the holiday, there will be no Zoom Havdalah.

Candle lighting for the eighth day of Passover after 8:31 pm.

Sunday 20 - Eighth Day of Passover

NO Gesher.

9:00 am | Festival Morning Services, including Yizkor, Memorial Prayers, Michael Heiman will share reflections on his mother’s experience during the Kindertransport during the Shoah.

In-person and on Zoom.

7:35 pm | Mincha followed by Maariv and Havdalah.

In-person only.

Passover ends at 8:31 pm. Chametz can be eaten and allowed to be brought back after 9:00 pm.

Monday 21

4:00 pm | Chisuk Emuna Food Packing.

Tuesday 22

9:00 am | Shacharit / Morning Service

Zoom only.

7:15 pm | Ma'ariv / Evening Service

In-person only.

Wednesday 23

Due to Yom Hoshoa, there will be no evening Torah study this week.

7:30 pm | Annual Jewish Community Yom Hashoah “Unto Every Person There is a Name” program. Please join us for this important program, this year at Kesher Israel Congregation.

Thursday 24

7:15 pm | Maariv / Evening Service

Friday 25

Candle lighting 7:40pm

Saturday 26 - Chisuk Emuna's Chevra Kadisha

9:30 am | Shabbat Morning Service,

In-person and on Zoom.

7:45 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service followed by learning and Ma'ariv / Evening Service.

In-person only.

8:55 pm | Havdalah.

In-person and on Zoom.

Monthly Community Food Packing Initiative

Monday, April 21st

4:00 pm at Chisuk Emuna

Please join Chisuk Emuna volunteers along with other members of our community to help pack emergency food bags for homeless shelters in Harrisburg.

May Book Club

Kesher Israel and Chisuk Emuna Congregations are thrilled to present 2025 National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer discussing his award-winning book, The Last Dekrepitzer.

When: Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. Where: Kesher Israel Congregation, Harrisburg, Pa. Cost: Program is free. Books will be available for sale. RSVP: Kesher Israel office, 717-238-0763

Harrisburg’s Kesher Israel and Chisuk Emuna Congregations are proud to present Howard Langer, winner of the 2025 National Jewish Book Award, Miller Family Book Club Award. Mr. Langer will make an in-person presentation, then will sign books following his talk. Mr. Langer will be in conversation with local author, Joel Burcat.

The fiddler busking in the Columbus Circle subway in 1965 is the last Dekrepitzer Rebbe, sole survivor of his Hasidic sect following the Holocaust. The Last Dekrepitzer follows Shmuel Meir Lichtbencher, who was raised to be a rebbe in Poland. He is smuggled by Black GIs to Mississippi who are impressed with his unique style of playing the fiddle. He lives among the poor Blacks and Black musicians in Mississippi. He marries Lula Curtin, and later flees a Klan attack to Manhattan. Playing street music with Reverend Gary Davis, he searches for his followers playing his mournful Hasidic melodies on his fiddle in street corners and in the subways. He seeks G-d, solace, and his people among the poor, Jewish, and Black people of New York.