Carnival goers celebrate Israel's 75th birthday

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

A crowd was waiting outside the JCC gym late in the afternoon of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. The community’s Israel Independence Day celebration was about to begin. A call came from inside: Come on in!

Kids led the way, of course. It didn’t take long for a line to form a…

Dollar-a-Day speaker glosses 3,000-year scourge of hate

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Antisemitism is more than 3,000 years old, Stephanie Hausner told attendees of the Dollar-a-Day event for the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Women’s Philanthropy division.

The COO of the Conference of Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations …

Fay Kun recalls mom's time in Nazi camps on Yom Hashoah

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“It’s up to us to make sure their memory never dies,” Jeri Zimmerman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, told those gathered at the JCC for the Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 17.

Local students had just finished their readin…

Volunteers finish Holocaust Resource Center reorganization

The Women’s Philanthropy division of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley has completed its mitzvah project to reorganize the Holocaust Resource Center in the JCC.

It’s a well-known story by now that during the pandemic, many people used their time in isolation to clean out their …

Federation staffer tells dad's Yom Kippur War story to Yom Hazikaron crowd

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The first thing you saw on entering the auditorium at Congregation Keneseth Israel for the Yom Hazikaron ceremony was the exhibit dedicated to fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terrorist attacks.

It had been set up by the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley…