Retired IDF officer shares inside view with Federation donors

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Jonathan Conricus, retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel, offered at least a bit of optimism to the nearly 150 Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley donors gathered at Temple Beth El September 10 to hear his insider’s take of the war in Israel.

Though…

ADL teaches teens and parents what to do about antisemitism

By Connor Hayes
Director of Community Programming 
and Billy Thompson
Digital Marketing and Graphic Design Associate

Four representatives of the Anti-Defamation League came to Congregation Keneseth Israel in late September to talk with concerned families in our community about the continui…

Yoav mom: If my family ever left Israel, we’d head to the Lehigh Valley

By Nurit Galon
Partnership2Gether

Some years ago, Ranni Trainin, the mayor of the Municipality of Yoav, called me, very excited. Ranni had been trying for quite a while to get Yoav involved with the Partnership 2000 program (now known as Partnership2Gether), partnering a Jewish community fr…

Women’s Philanthropy mitzvah group makes mosaic for Israel

By Billy Thompson
Digital Marketing and Graphic Design Associate

The Jewish Federation’s connection to Israel is exemplified in its Partnership2Gether relationship with Israel’s Yoav region. To celebrate this, Women’s Philanthropy gathered to hear Connor Hayes, director of community p…

Yoav artists visiting for week of workshops and bonding

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“In every work of art, something divine reveals itself,” said the 20th-century Jewish theologian and philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. “Art is the partnership between the divine and human in the service of unity.” 

It’s fitting, then, that at thi…