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Sep 6, 2022

Israel EMT saves lives racing to scenes on a Lehigh Valley ambucycle

Yonatan Aouat is a first responder who rides the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s new ambucycle No. 1283 for United Hatzalah in Israel. The Federation’s Maimonides Society healthcare professionals recently purchased the ambucycle for United Hatzalah emergency medical service in m…

Jul 19, 2022

Jewish Federation presents awards, elects new leaders

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of HAKOL
 
It must have been the Israeli-style picnic that had guests arriving early for the 2022 Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Community Celebration and Annual Meeting on Thursday evening, June 9. 
 
Many of those in the Jewish Community Center’s …

Jul 19, 2022

Jeanette Eichenwald looks back at 25 years of Yachad U

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
 
Yachad University is 25 years old. Jeanette Eichenwald cofounded the Lehigh Valley Jewish education institution, taught classes all along, and now has retired. 
 
The lifelong educator whose wide-ranging resume includes president and executive dire…

Jul 19, 2022

The valley’s best food truck is kosher

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
 
The best food truck in the Lehigh Valley, according to readers of Lehigh Valley Style magazine, is the only food truck exclusively serving kosher food. And it happens to be parked right outside the Jewish Community Center.
 
The readers of the magaz…

Jul 19, 2022

Take us out with the crowd

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
 
May 26 was a night of rarities at Allentown’s Coca-Cola Park. Besides the unusual concentration of Jewish spectators in the right field stands, kosher food was being served on the concourse, and the Israeli national anthem was sung over the loudspeak…