Bill Markson, Federation’s new president, is Here for Good

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

One of the many things Bill Markson likes about the Lehigh Valley is that you have to put in some effort to be Jewish here. It’s not automatic. 

The new board president of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley has seen it both ways, thinking back to his day…

Violins from the Holocaust, Hiroshima to feature in program promoting peace

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

A Shabbat evening at Congregation Brith Sholom commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II will feature two violins with profound histories, each of which survived one of the war’s defining tragedies: the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Japa…

The legacy of a Bethlehem school’s Holocaust program lives on at JDS

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The seventh-grade students at East Hills Middle School in Bethlehem were disappointed. Not only had they not been sent home because of the snowstorm, but the road conditions forced their special guest scheduled to visit them that day to cancel. 

David Tuck lived a…

Eva z"l and Larry Levitt's life and work inspire new JDS learning center

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Larry Levitt tells me he was “just an add-on.” If you know Larry, you know he’s humble and gracious and that calling himself an add-on is just the sort of thing he would do.

You’d also suspect there’s more to the story. In fact, his name on the new educat…

New annual award to be given in honor of Vicki Wax

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Vicki Wax got some surprising news in the days leading up to the Jewish Federation Community Celebration and Annual Meeting on June 12. Her family and friends had come together to establish an annual award for a Jewish college student in tribute to her.

The Jewish …