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Click here to view our complete High Holy Days

and Fall Festival Schedule.

Please join us for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah as we begin the Jewish year and celebrate our holidays together as a Chisuk Emuna family.

Upcoming Events

Yom Kippur

Wednesday, Oct 1 | Erev Yom Kippur

2:00 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service

6:15 pm | Kol Nidre followed by Maariv

Thursday, Oct 22 | Yom Kippur

9:00 am | Shacharit / Morning Service

10:00 am - 1:00 pm | Children's Programming

5:00 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service

6:30 pm | Ne'ilah

7:35 pm | Fast Conludes

Click here to view our complete High Holiday and Fall Festival Schedule.

For information about children's programming, guest tickets, parking, and our latest health and safety guidelines, please click here.

Remember the Hungry:
STAT Kol Nidre Food Drive

Please participate in our food drive to support the Central PA Food Bank and the Jewish Family Service (JFS) Food Pantry. JFS provides food support for over 600 families a month. You may donate to the Central PA Food Bank Virtual Food Drive as part of the Chisuk Emuna group here. This virtual food drive will enable the food bank to purchase food such as fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy in bulk at less than wholesale prices.

Jewish Family Service is accepting both non-perishable items and monetary donations. As for items needed, JFS welcomes all donations, not only basic food items including pasta, rice, canned tuna and soup, but also personal hygiene products like toilet paper, soap, shampoo, and toothpaste.

For those making monetary donations to JFS, please visit the JFS website, https://jfsofhbg.org/ or send a check to JFS (2994 N. Second Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110). Please note “food pantry” in the memo section of the check to earmark the donation to the food pantry. Your monetary donation will enable JFS to purchase and distribute perishable foods such as bread, milk, cheese, eggs and poultry to families facing financial hardship.

On Rosh Hashanah, there will be grocery bags available in the lobby for donations of non-perishable items. Please bring your donations to the Kol Nidre service or earlier in the week.

Many thanks.

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Is Change Possible?
Exploring the Laws of Repentence

Wednesday Evenings,

starting Sept 10th

7:15 pm on Zoom

Please join us for a new Wednesday evening series beginning on September 10th at 7:15 pm, "Is Change Possible? Exploring the Laws of Repentance" with Rabbi Ron Muroff on Zoom.

This Week: Sept 25 - Oct 4

Thursday 25

7:15 pm | Mincha-Maariv / Afternoon-Evening Services.

In-person only.

Friday 26

6:35 pm | Kabbalat Shabbat

In-person only.

Candle lighting 6:39 pm.

Saturday 27

9:30 am | Shabbat Morning Service.

6:40 pm | Mincha/Afternoon service followed by learning and Ma'ariv / Evening Service.

In-person only.

7:55 pm | Havdallah.

In-person and on Zoom.

Sunday 28

8:30 am | Shacharit / Morning Service

In-person only.

7:00 pm | Gesher Adult Education Intro to Hebrew course with Mandy Cheskis.

Zoom only.

Monday 29

No synagogue events.

Tuesday 30

9:00 am | Shacharit / Morning Service.

Zoom only.

7:15 pm | Mincha followed by Maariv.

In-person only.

Wednesday 1 - Erev Yom Kippur

2:00 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service.

This service includes confessional prayers in preparation for and in anticipation of Yom Kippur.

6:15 pm | Kol Nidre followed by Maariv / Evening Service.

Please bring non-perishable food to donate to the Libby Urie Food pantry of the Jewish Family Services.

In-person and on Zoom.

6:30 pm | Candle lighting.

Thursday 2 - Yom Kippur

9:00 am | Shacharit / Morning Service

In-person and on Zoom.

10:00 am - 1:00 pm | Children's Programming

In-person only.

5:00 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service

In-person and on Zoom.

6:30 pm | Ne'ilah

In-person and on Zoom.

Fast concludes after 7:35 pm. A break fast, sponsored by Bruce & Barbara Bazelon and Faye Doctrow, in memory of Marty Doctrow z”l, follows the sounding of the shofar and Maariv, the evening service.

Friday 3

Candle lighting 6:27 pm.

Saturday 4

9:30 am | Shabbat Morning Service and Baby Naming

In-person and on Zoom.

6:30 pm | Mincha / Afternoon Service followed by learning and Ma'ariv/Evening Service

In-person only.

7:45 pm | Havdalah

Zoom only.

L'CHAIM L'CHAIM

DAVE MARCHESKIE, Community Relations Manager

For Constellation’s three Pennsylvania

Clean Energy Centers

REVIVING CONFIDENCE:

Public Outreach Around Restarting a Legacy Generator

Wednesday, Oct 22nd,
1:00-2:30 pm
at Chisuk Emuna

Dave Marcheskie leads philanthropic efforts and community engagement for a transformative clean energy project in Pennsylvania. Since joining Constellation, Dave has supported nuclear site and external commercial communications, crisis response, and now Philanthropy’s Community Relations. In his current role, Dave oversees a $1 million charitable giving program tied to the reactivation of the former Three Mile Island site—now the Crane Clean Energy Center.

Dave holds a B.A. in Communications and Media Studies from Ursinus College and studied journalism in Florence, Italy. With nearly two decades in communications—first as an Emmy-award winning on-air journalist, now as a corporate communicator—Dave has seen firsthand the impact of strong storytelling and trust-building. Through compelling storytelling, Dave Marcheskie demonstrates how empathy, transparency, and local partnerships are fueling a new chapter in clean energy. He reframes the narrative from a site associated with past crisis to one that represents innovation, economic revival, and the promise of powering AI.