Empathy and anger grip JFS staffers at session to admonish UN

By Rebecca Axelrod-Cooper and Chelsea Karp
Jewish Family Service

We were among the 700 people at the December 4 special session of the United Nations organized by the National Council of Jewish Women to call out the UN and women’s organizations for not speaking out against the horrific cr…

Brother tells Lehigh Valley audience story of twins' kidnapping

By Billy Thompson
Digital Marketing Associate

The Jewish community of the Lehigh Valley came together on the evening of December 3 to hear a story from Liran Berman, whose twin brothers, Ziv and Gali Berman, were taken hostage by Hamas during the terrorist attacks on October 7.

On the morn…

Lehigh Valley community joins 290,000 at March for Israel in DC

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Almost 150 people filled the three buses in Allentown JCC parking lot early on November 14. Their destination was Washington, D.C., and the March for Israel.

It was a monumental day for members of the Lehigh Valley Jewish community, students at the local colleges a…

Israeli envoy gives teens Israel-Gaza talking points

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“Their questions were better than what I hear at colleges,” Israeli emissary Shay Rubenstein said after speaking to Lehigh Valley students at Temple Beth El on November 20 about the crisis in Israel.

Take, for example, the rhetorical question of one student who…

Former shlicha tells her October 7 story at Women for Israel event

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

The idea came up on October 19 during the Women’s Philanthropy Mums and Muffins mitzvah project. Before the ladies began planting flowers outside the JCC they met inside, in the boardroom.

The Operation Swords of Iron Israel Emergency Campaign wa…