Our new shlicha has arrived. What’s her story?

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol

Eynav Dahan arrived in Allentown from Israel in the first part of September. The new slicha (Israeli emissary) to the Lehigh Valley is now getting to know the area and figuring out specifically what she’ll be doing for the Jewish community.

“I didn’t…

Women’s Philanthropy learns about the science of friendship

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

Almost 40 women participated in the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy Zoom event examining the science of friendship on September 22.

Lydia Denworth talked on the subject of her 2021 book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordi…

Pinemere Camp celebrates 80 years and honors Robby Wax and Marty Black

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol

More than 300 alumni of Pinemere Camp turned out at the lakeside grounds in Stroudsburg over the weekend of September 9-11 to celebrate the camp’s 80th anniversary. They represented every era of the camp’s history back to the sixties and participated in…

New president, new year, new chapter for the federation

By Robby Wax
President

Leading up to the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Community Celebration and Annual Meeting on June 9, 2022, I spent considerable time pondering the start of my presidency of the Federation. Over the past few years, immediate past president Gary Fromer and I hav…

Shaliach shared his personal Israel with the Lehigh Valley

By Carl Zebrowski
Hakol Editor

Gavriel Siman-Tov was walking down the hall in the Jewish Community Center, covered in paints from a JCC summer camp activity.

It was a few weeks before his time as shaliach (Israeli emissary) to the Lehigh Valley would come to an end. JCC summer camp — one…