Some laughs, some tears: Comic-educator enlightens crowd on today's Israel

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“I’m a little anxious tonight,” Joel Chasnoff told a crowd in the JCC’s Kline Auditorium on April 3 for a Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Main Event.

Chasnoff, coauthor of the book “Israel 201: “Israel 201: Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mys…

Running for their lives: Homage paid to hostages 6 months into captivity

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor 

Sunday, April 7, was six months to the day since Hamas attacked Israel and took more than 200 hostages. Over 130 of them have not been returned home.

“May it be six months and not a moment more,” said Tama Tamarkin, one of the organizers of a local group that…

Strangers in a strange land: A message from Robby and Laurie Wax

By Robby Wax
Jewish Federation Board
President
and Laurie Wax
Women’s Philanthropy President

During Passover, we are reminded that we were once strangers in a strange land. The seder meal instructs us to envision ourselves as slaves in the land of Egypt, and we recount the times our Jewis…

Together, we remember: Hear Eva Levitt's Holocaust story on Yom HaShoah

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Some stories need to be told over and over. You can only begin to get a glimpse of their depth and magnitude after multiple retellings. Think of Genesis and Exodus. Think of the Holocaust.

On May 5, Yom HaShoah (Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day), the Jewish com…

Community members come together to clean up antisemitic graffiti

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Tracey Billig has the kind of kids who go out in their neighborhood to pick up trash. They find and properly dispose of snack wrappers, plastic drink bottles, papers—the usual.

One day this winter, while making their cleanup rounds in Upper Macungie, they discove…