Yom HaZikaron event to feature 10/7 tie to Lehigh Valley community

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“Walking around Kibbutz Holit more than 100 days after the murderous terrorist attack on October 7, you can still see evidence of lives that were suddenly cut short,” reads a draft of the presentation Lee Kestecher Solomon was preparing for the Yom HaZikaron cer…

Local audience struggles through harrowing film on 10/7 music festival

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The opening imagery of the documentary “Supernova” includes a crowd of dancing teens and 20- and 30-somethings in front of a stage, arms extended in the air, heads and hands bobbing in rhythm to the live music. 

You hear the overdubbed voice of a woman talking…

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…