You're just 2 or 3 degrees of separation from a hostage

By Max Averbach
Special to Hakol

In 1980-81, during the Iran hostage crisis, Walter Cronkite, America’s most renowned news anchor, ended every segment of his show, CBS Evening News, with the number of days the hostages had been held captive in Iran. Since October 7, Jewish communities acr…

PBS film will show Valley how Pittsburgh rebounded from Tree of Life attack

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

First came horror to the Pittsburgh Jewish community, when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue on the Shabbat morning of October 28, 2018. By the time his shooting spree ended, he’d killed 11 and wounded 6. 

Then came hope and resolve.  In the aftermath…

ADL to train teens and parents how to challenge antisemitism

The Anti-Defamation League will present a workshop on Sunday, September 29, designed to teach Jewish middle and high school kids and their family members to recognize antisemitism and anti-Israel bias and to provide tools to challenge them. 

The Words to Action workshop, which will start a…

Wartime IDF spokesman to give community insider briefing on Israel at war

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel Jonathan Conricus will be visiting the Lehigh Valley from Israel on the evening of September 10 to speak to our community about his experiences as the IDF’s international spokesperson during the war with Hamas and h…

Lions to honor Carol Bub Fromer at international conference

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The Lehigh Valley already knows that Dr. Carol Bub Fromer has set a high standard for philanthropy and volunteerism during her lifetime of commitment to the Jewish world. Now she’ll get international recognition for that as the Lehigh Valley’s 2024 Kipnis-Wilson…