Community celebrates Life and Legacy donors and our future

TBE honors Ivan Schonfeld 

By Seth Katzman
Temple Beth El

Temple Beth El gathered for a brunch to learn about the Life and Legacy after-life-giving program and recognize its donors. The occasion was more than educational. It encouraged our commitment to our Jewish community and to ourselv…

New NextGen Book Club: Log on and dive into a book with other young adults

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

One of the challenges of gathering young adults for events is they don’t have a lot of free time. They’re busy with kids at home or with jobs as they push through the early stages of their careers. They want to get together, but too often they can’t. 

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Photojournalist to exhibit images, lead dialogue at October 7 commemoration

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel brought a new focus to the work of Tel Aviv photojournalist Erez Kaganovitz. In the aftermath of this deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, he launched the project he calls “Humans of October 7th.”

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Ex-Columbia prof updates community on state of US campuses

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The Lehigh Valley Jewish community showed its eagerness to kick off the new year of community-wide gatherings when they filled Temple Beth El on September 11 to hear what the Jewish former Columbia University professor who became the national face of standing up to …

Sounds of music and a glimpse of hope

By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing

Music brings people together and often tells compelling stories that words alone cannot express. At Congregation Brith Sholom in Bethlehem on September 13, the stories came from the different sides of World War II—the Holocaust and Hiroshima. Over…