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…

Young Leadership hang out at the alleys--and bowl

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s Young Leadership division met on November 18 at Steel City Bowl and Brews in Bethlehem for a fun night of glow bowling.

The adults-only group was very enthusiastic. They cheered for strikes and spares,…