Strengthening Jewish Communities in Ithaca and Beyond
Ithaca Area United Jewish Community is building a strong Jewish future in Ithaca by providing programming for our youth, helping Jews in need and forging connections with Israel. To achieve these goals, IAUJC raises and allocates more than $100,000 each year to Jewish organizations in Ithaca and nonprofits in Israel and the former Soviet Union.
Learn more about our impact, ways to get involved, and help us create a vibrant local Jewish community.
PJ Library Passover Fun Fest Coming Up
Sunday, March 29th, 3 to 5 PM
Congregation Tikkun v'Or, 2550 N Triphammer Road
Enjoy crafts, stories, songs, tasting charoset amd searching for the afikomen!
Free Admission!
Holocaust Commemoration 2026
Week of Yom HaShoah | April 14 and 15
The Jacob and Jeannette Geldwert Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m.
Temple Beth-El, 402 N. Tioga St.
Jud Newborn, coauthor of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, will speak about the White Rose, a group of University of Munich students who deifed the Nazi regime by producing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and a fellow student, Christoph Probst, were executive by guillotine for their resistance activities on February 22, 1943.
This event is sponsored by Ithaca Area United Jewish Community, Tompkins Community Bank and Area Congregations Together.
Registration is required to attend this lecture at this link.
Film Screening
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Wednesday, April 16, 6 p.m.
Cornell Cinema. Free Admission
A film documenting Elie Wiesel's life, including his passions, conflicts and legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. The film covers his childhood in Sighet, Romania, his deportation to Auschwitz, his liberation from Buchenwald, and his life in France and in the United States as a writer, teacher and activist.
This event is sponsored by Greenspoon Hillel, the Cornell Jewish Studies Program and Ithaca Area United Jewish Community.
Sherrie Negrea, cochair of the antisemitism task force, speaking to the Ithaca Common Council about the antizionist murals.
Antisemitism Task Force Prompts
City of Ithaca to Remove Graffiti
The Ithaca Area United Jewish Community Antisemitism Task Force spent three months lobbying the City of Ithaca to remove antizionist murals and graffiti from city property.
After task force members filed complaints on the city's website and spoke at a Common Council meeting, Ithaca Mayor Robert Cantelmo announced that he has directed the city to remove all graffiti throughout Ithaca. The graffiti removal will begin with the image of a Palestinian flag on the wall along Cascadilla Creek off Tioga Street, which the task force had complained about to city officials.
While the Common Council did not agree to the task force's request to take down a mural containing the slogan "Free Gaza" along Green Street, the removal of all graffiti in the City of Ithaca was an accomplishment for the task force.
