By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
It’s not every day that a Holocaust survivor turns 100. It’s only rarer in the Lehigh Valley.
Ruth Saalfeld, a resident of the Heather Glen Senior Living in the Allentown area, celebrated her centennial birthday on September 9. The surprise party drew …
By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
Eynav Dahan arrived in Allentown from Israel in the first part of September. The new slicha (Israeli emissary) to the Lehigh Valley is now getting to know the area and figuring out specifically what she’ll be doing for the Jewish community.
“I didn’t…
By Charlene Riegger
Director of Marketing
Almost 40 women participated in the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy Zoom event examining the science of friendship on September 22.
Lydia Denworth talked on the subject of her 2021 book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordi…
By Carl Zebrowski
Editor of Hakol
More than 300 alumni of Pinemere Camp turned out at the lakeside grounds in Stroudsburg over the weekend of September 9-11 to celebrate the camp’s 80th anniversary. They represented every era of the camp’s history back to the sixties and participated in…
By Robby Wax
President
Leading up to the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Community Celebration and Annual Meeting on June 9, 2022, I spent considerable time pondering the start of my presidency of the Federation. Over the past few years, immediate past president Gary Fromer and I hav…
