Community Favorite Hamentashen Recipe to Be Featured at Make and Take

By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing

There are two things that make Ilene Ringold’s favorite hamentashen recipe extra special – the orange juice and the memories.

Ringold vividly remembers helping her young children roll out the dough and pinch the corners during Purim ac…

Our Experience at the 2015 Pan American Maccabi Games

By Jason and Andrew Fine
Special to HAKOL

The 13th Pan American Maccabi Games were held from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Santiago, Chile. Over 3,000 athletes from all around the world, including 400 from the U.S., headed to Santiago to participate in 17 different sports. We were among those athlet…

Camp a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience for Israeli Shlichim

By Mike Smith
Camp JCC 

This past month, I spent two weeks in Israel on a JCC Camps Birthright trip. I was fortunate enough to be able to extend my trip an extra two days to reconnect with old camp friends and tour schools in Israel. These camp friends were participants in our Partnership2…

It’s About the People, Not the Programs!

By Michele Salomon
Congregation Keneseth Israel

“How do we identify and attract non-affiliated Jews?” 

“How do we get Millennial Jews to join a synagogue?”

 These are top issues for Jewish organizations.  A variety of sociological and demographic trends are at play with fewer p…

Mitzvah Projects Reach Across the Lehigh Valley and Around the World

Editor’s note: Each month in HAKOL, we feature the mitzvah projects of community members as part of our Give a Mitzvah, Do a Mitzvah column. We hear from their families about their plans and what they are doing to be of service to the community. This month, we checked in with a few of the …