Community members Stand Together for Israel at D.C. rally

By Connor Hayes
Director of Community Programming

When our community members boarded the bus to Washington, D.C., early on Sunday morning, November 10, everyone among us was hoping we would experience an event with the gravitas and scale of the March in Washington in November 2023. We are p…

Hundreds gather for mutual support on 10/7 anniversary

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“We remember where we were, what we were doing, and a searing sense of loss,” Jeri Zimmerman, executive director of the Jewish Federation, told the hundreds of people gathered in the JCC to commemorate the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on the night of their fir…

Lions and Poms take road trip to American Jewish history museum in Philly

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

How many synagogues are there in the Lehigh Valley? That was one of the trivia questions asked aboard the bus to Philadelphia on October 22 for the Women’s Philanthropy Lion of Judah and Pomegranate visit to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.…

Expert unwraps Middle East war at exclusive NextGen event

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor 

“To understand Israel, you have to understand the Middle East,” Eric Lightman, executive director of the JCC, told the gathering in the JCC Kline Auditorium on October 30. The audience of mostly young adults from the community had come to hear Middle East expe…

From chag to chag: A spiritual exploration of the Lehigh Valley

By Connor Hayes
Director of Community 
Programming

The late great Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks once said, “Whoever we are, whatever we do…, the single most important fact about our life, on which all else depends, is how we spend our time.” With that in mind, I decided to spend as…