Community News

NextGen young adults end year with brewery tour and hangout

By Billy Thompson
Digital Marketing Associate

NextGen, the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley group formerly known as Young Leadership, hosted an end-of-the-campaign-year celebration and brewery tour at Bru Daddy’s Brewing Company in downtown Allentown at the end of May. The weather w…

Hostages' favorite recipes featured in free online cookbook

By Sandi Teplitz
Special to Hakol

Shavuot of Longing: Their Recipes on Our Table,” by Foody Israel and Paz Sassoon, Hostages and Missing Families Forum, 2024, download

This innovative recipe book, featured on TikTok and promoted by social media influencers, features some favorite thin…

Yom HaShoah and the life lessons of Eva Levitt z"l

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“World War II and the Shoah ended 79 years ago,” Shari Spark, director of the Holocaust Resource Center and organizer of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s 2024 Yom HaShoah commemoration, told the audience in the JCC at the evening commemoration on M…

Packed house at TBE celebrates 'Evitchka' book release

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

You could judge from the crowd at Temple Beth El on the morning of Yom HaShoah the esteem the Lehigh Valley Jewish community has for Larry and Eva z”l Levitt. All these people had turned out to celebrate the release of the book that tells Eva’s story of Holocaus…

Federation names its annual award winners

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley has announced the winners of its 2023-24 awards and will present them at its community celebration and annual meeting in the JCC Kline Auditorium on Thursday, June 6.

Everyone is invited to attend to celebrate these winner…