By Carl Zebrowski
Editor
The Lehigh Valley Jewish community suffered a heartrending loss when Bobby Hammel died at age 71 on December 13 after a seven-year battle with brain cancer.
For a hint of what he meant to the community, look no further than the name of the Allentown JCC property:…
By Carl Zebrowski
Editor
October 7 was a devastating day in Israel. But there was hope. Emergency medical services, tested beyond their limit, answered hundreds and hundreds of urgent calls for help. The first responders of United Hatzalah, volunteers who even pay to gas up their own emerge…
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…
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…