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…

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…