Rabbi Ron Symons

Headshot of Rabbi Ron Symons gazing off camera and wearing a kippah

Rabbi Ron Symons is the founding director of the Center for Loving Kindness of the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh.

Woman wearing a face mask and holding a mail in ballot while standing next to a USPS mailbox
Voting Rights

A Year Like No Other: Voting in Pennsylvania and Beyond

Josh Sayles
Rabbi Ron Symons
Susan Friedberg Kalson
 October 15, 2020
Typically, Jews have an extraordinarily high voter turnout, said to be the highest of any ethnic group, in a nation in which only an estimated 1 in 2 eligible voters actually vote. But this is a year like no other.

The Mitzvah of Voting

Rabbi Ron Symons
 July 11, 2012

Photo above courtesy of TIME magazine.

Voters cast their ballots in Virginia, October 2008. Photo credit: Hyungwon Kang / Reuters.

Among my many lasting childhood memories from Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, is the perennial pilgrimage I would make