A Wonderful Time with our Friends in Yoav

By Alan Salinger
Special to HAKOL

This summer we visited Israel to share in the wedding of Jeremy Vaida and Meidan Keidar. You may know Jeremy as David Vaida and Cantor Ellen Sussman’s son and Meidan as the former shlicha who spent time promoting Israel’s and Yoav’s relationship with …

Judy Diamondstein to Lead New Haven Federation

By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing

First as a volunteer and later as a professional, Judy Diamondstein has spent more than two decades sharing her family and her passion for the Jewish community with the Lehigh Valley.

Her husband, Marc, has been a committed volunteer,…

Major Nathan Kline Saves the Day

By Laura Rigge
HAKOL Editor    
 
Major Nathan Kline is no stranger to pressure.

The 89-year old World War II veteran and Allentown native was present for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and witnessed the Battle of the Bulge from thousands of feet in the air. He joined the Air Force de…

72nd Annual Hadassah Concert to Feature Klezmer Band

By Beth Orenstein

Bethlehem Group of Hadassah Greater Philadelphia Chapter

The Manhattan Klezmer Band is bringing its toe-tapping, Eastern European party music imbued with Jewish tonalities and spirituality to Congregation Brith Sholom in Bethlehem at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. 

The hour-lo…

Last Living Monuments Man Comes to Lehigh Valley

By Laura Rlgge
HAKOL Editor
 
Harry Ettlinger has seen a lot in his 89 years.
 
Ettlinger was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1926. He and his family personally witnessed the rise of Hitler and the National Socialist Party, before fleeing Germany the day after Et­tlinger' s bar mi…