Happy Mother’s Day! This Mother’s Day, like every day, there are reminders of our mothers and “mother figures” in ways we can’t always anticipate. Something happens or something is said and we think of her. Celebrating this important role makes sense and certainly...
Dear JCCA Community, Tonight at sundown marks the start of Passover for the Jewish community, and this Friday is Good Friday, which ushers in Easter, the holiest day of the year for Christians. This is a holy week for people throughout the JCCA community — our...
JCCA and its predecessor institutions are inextricably bound to the history of New York City, and the United States, as welcoming immigrants from poverty-stricken and war-torn countries around the globe. The Hebrew Benevolent Society, which eventually evolved into...
Dear JCCA Colleagues: Today we commemorate the birth of The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. The legacy of Dr. King's work — for civil rights, peace and economic justice — echoes in what we do at JCCA every day. We look to Dr. King's message of patience and love in...
Beginning this Friday, April 22nd, the Jewish community, the world over, begins the celebration of Passover, a holiday commemorating the extraordinary events some 3000 years ago when the Jewish people were freed from hundreds of years of cruel slavery in Egypt. We...