Yoav Teens Reflect on Their Summer in Allentown

By Ivy Bernstein

On a warm day at the end of June, a group of families met to welcome four teens from Israel’s Yoav region who arrived in Allentown to work as counselors at Camp JCC. Several families had agreed to open their homes to host the teens, and the evening was spent getting to kn…

College-Bound Students and Their Families Learn About BDS

On Aug. 16, a group of parents and college-bound students gathered at Muhlenberg College Hillel for “Fighting BDS,” a program about Jewish life on college campuses including the growing presence of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric. 

Organized by Aaron Gorodzinsky, director of outr…

Visiting Yoav Like Coming Home

Allentown United Event Brings Community Together for Justice

Michelle Cohen
HAKOL Editor

On the evening of Monday, July 11, the city of Allentown came together as part of a top-down effort organized by the city to show solidarity and support for the people affected by recent tragedies across the country.

Aaron Gorodzinsky, director of outreach and c…

Bar Mitzvah Shares Day, Project with Grandfather

By Abby Trachtman
​JFLV Project Coordinator

Richard Holtzman never celebrated his bar mitzvah as a boy. So in honor of his own bar mitzvah this past May, his grandson Andrew Holtzman-Marga invited his grandfather to share in his celebration and become a Bar Mitzvah right alongside him.

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