New Group Brings Together Moorestown's Jewish Population
The newly formed Moorestown Jewish Association debuted this past weekend with a Hanukkah party at the Community House.
Being Jewish can be rather lonely—seeing as how they represent, according to most statistics, less than one-half of a percent of the world’s population. But for Moorestown Jews, the world just got a little bit smaller. Even though Moorestown is surrounded by towns with synagogues and Jewish community centers, the town itself lacks any sort of designated gathering place/group for Jewish people, and as a result, Moorestown’s Jewish population has never been able to establish a true sense of community. “Very often, when Jewish people live in an area where there’s not a large Jewish population, they want to have some way of connecting, and we don’t have that in Moorestown,” said longtime resident Ann-Linn Glaser. Spurred on by this yearning …
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