As I stand up to leave Lucy Korsky’s house in Allentown, she offers me a baggie to take home some of the Russian cookies she’d served me along with hot tea and honey as we talked.
“If you don’t mind,” I say.
“If I minded, I wouldn’t have offered” is her reply.
That capture…
I moved to the Lehigh Valley 17 years ago, so I'm somewhat of a newcomer. When it came time to plan for retirement living, I realized that “home” was here -- not the town where I grew up, not the town where my career took off, not the town where I raised my daughters, but here where I’…
Ben Grossman has fond memories of spending time at Congregation Sons of Israel and the JCC in Allentown when he was young. Both were and continue to be key institutions of the Lehigh Valley Jewish community that he has committed to sustaining and strengthening into the future through a plann…
We make an annual gift to Federation because Jewish life, education, values, institutions and culture are important to us. Through the Federation and directly, we make a difference to the Jewish Day School, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Community Center, United Jewish Appeal, et al.
When we…
We have had the good fortune to raise our family in the Lehigh Valley. We are grateful for those individuals and families that we have gotten to know and for the many we have never met who have contributed to our life through their generosity and caring.
Legacy is recognizing that we do not…
