JCAL, the Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, is the collection of Jewish organizations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Working with the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), JCAL supports Jewish life in Lancaster, in Israel and all around the world.
In Lancaster, we help our students go to Jewish summer camp, Israel, and other immersive Jewish experiences. We host a community lighting of our Red Rose menorah in Penn Square each night of Chanukah and commemorate Yom HaShaoh, honoring local survivors and their descendants. Lancaster's religious school students go on a field trip every year, funded by JCAL. Authors from around the world come to Lancaster (via Zoom) as part of our Writers In Residences* (*theirs and ours) program
In Israel and everywhere in the world Jews live, JCAL partners with JFNA, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Joint Distribution Committee to assist Holocaust survivors in Israel living in poverty, help Jews living in war zones, and bring Israeli Shlichim (emissaries) to Lancaster, American summer camps and other Jewish communities to educate everyone about real life in Israel.
In Lancaster, we help our students go to Jewish summer camp, Israel, and other immersive Jewish experiences. We host a community lighting of our Red Rose menorah in Penn Square each night of Chanukah and commemorate Yom HaShaoh, honoring local survivors and their descendants. Lancaster's religious school students go on a field trip every year, funded by JCAL. Authors from around the world come to Lancaster (via Zoom) as part of our Writers In Residences* (*theirs and ours) program
In Israel and everywhere in the world Jews live, JCAL partners with JFNA, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Joint Distribution Committee to assist Holocaust survivors in Israel living in poverty, help Jews living in war zones, and bring Israeli Shlichim (emissaries) to Lancaster, American summer camps and other Jewish communities to educate everyone about real life in Israel.
