Meet Yoav’s new Partnership2Gether chair

By Orit Gutman
Yoav Partnership2Gether Committee Chair 

With deep emotion and great responsibility, I’m stepping into the role of chair of the Yoav steering committee for the Partnership2Gether between Yoav, Israel, and the Lehigh Valley. This is a great privilege, especially in such a c…

Levitts cut the ribbon on new JDS learning center

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

It was a testament to the great importance the Lehigh Valley Jewish community puts on its Jewish Day School, on Eva z”l and Larry Levitt, and on its Holocaust education mission that so many people packed into the JDS second floor on September 12 for the ceremonial…

Prof who stood up to Columbia protests to talk here 9/11

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Dr. Shai Davidai, the Israeli assistant professor at Columbia University who became famous last year for standing up to anti-Israel protests and other antisemitic acts on campus, is coming to the Lehigh Valley on September 11 to give his first talk to a U.S. audienc…

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…