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…

Longtime KYW reporter gives advice for sussing out wartime truth

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Hadas Kuznits was an inspired choice to address the Lehigh Valley Jewish community about two important problems today’s Jewish communities are facing: coping with and fighting against antisemitism and evaluating the accuracy of news stories related to the war in I…

Social media influencer speaks to Women's Philanthropy

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

Amy Albertson, an Asian American Jewish social media influencer with over 35,000 followers on Instagram (@theamyalbertson), spoke to the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s Women’s Philanthropy Dollar-a-Day Spring Event on May 9.

The event…

NYC exhibit reminds that 'it could have been any of us' at the Nova fest

By Lauren Rabin
Special to Hakol 

On May 14, 2024, I visited the Nova Music Festival exhibit “Oct. 7, 06:29 a.m. The Moment Music Stood Still” in New York City with five of my local Jewish friends. Since October 7, 2023, many of us have been unable to comprehend the horrors our Jewish …