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…

Maimonides Brunch and Learn focuses on repetitive stress injuries

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

Do you spend your days making repetitive motions such as grasping tools or instruments, typing, or constant lifting? On September 22, at the opening Maimonides Society Brunch and Learn of the Jewish Federation’s new campaign year, physical therapi…

Yoav artists lead Women’s Philanthropy in healing-through-creation session

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The first event in the Lehigh Valley for the three artists who had just arrived from the Valley’s Partnership2Gether community of Yoav, Israel, on September 9 was a hands-on art therapy session with the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy. 

Romina Oppel…

Retired IDF officer shares inside view with Federation donors

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Jonathan Conricus, retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel, offered at least a bit of optimism to the nearly 150 Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley donors gathered at Temple Beth El September 10 to hear his insider’s take of the war in Israel.

Though…