Community News

Federation prepares for busy fall season

By Stephanie Smartschan
Director of Community Development & Operations

Creativity and flexibility will be paramount this fall as the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley launches its 2021 Annual Campaign for Jewish Needs and offers opportunities to bring the community together.

While the…

Community to celebrate third year of LIFE & LEGACY

By Jim Mueth
JFLV Director of Planned Giving & Endowments

In the three years since the Lehigh Valley started the LIFE & LEGACY program, we’ve seen an overwhelming response to the goal of strengthening our community’s endowments. Our 10 participating agencies have built better relationsh…

Connect at the JCC this fall

By Eric Lightman
JCC Executive Director

The Jewish Community Center of the Lehigh Valley has been thrilled to welcome both children and adults back to our facility this summer. It has been a pleasure hearing the laughs and cheers of children filling our building and energizing to see our me…

JDS graduate responds to COVID-19 needs with $12,000 donation

By Randi Senderowitz
Special to HAKOL

It was August 2014, way back when college was college and students actually learned in a live classroom setting. Marlee Senderowitz was adapting to college life as a freshman engineering student at Georgia Institute of Technology. Coming from Allentown,…

Federation hosts forum of local elected officials confronting inequality

By Stephanie Goodling
HAKOL Editor

On the evening of July 20, the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley hosted a program via Zoom to address the systemic inequality that still exists in government today. Zac Cohen, a member of the CRC and moderator for th…