Community unites to honor hostages after bodies returned

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Community members gathered at the JCC on February 20 to honor the Israeli hostages whose bodies Hamas had just returned to Israel and to support one another in their effort to maintain hope through these difficult times. 

In a public spectacle of disrespect and hu…

PSU program to nip antisemitism, other hostility in the bud expands in LV

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

The Pennsylvania State University is expanding a program already in the Lehigh Valley that helps school students from diverse backgrounds understand one another and get along better. 

The university-wide Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative has been working with …

Are you missing Israel? Israel can come to you!

By Alicia Zahn
Special to Hakol

Do you have Israel on your mind? Are you loving Israel, supporting Israel, thinking about Israel, but can’t actually travel there anytime soon? Then Israel can come to you! 

Each summer, I host Israelis from Yoav in my home through the Jewish Federation o…

Maimonides kicks off Super Sunday with focus on men’s health

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

It was a serious subject that Dr. Frank Tamarkin addressed with a touch of humor in the Super Sunday edition of the Maimonides Society Brunch and Learn on January 26: “Men’s Health.”

For the first Brunch and Learn presentation of 2025, Tamarkin, chief of urol…

A Jewish Odyssey: Lehigh Valley, Yoav delegates to explore Sephardic Greece

By Connor Hayes
Director of Community Programming

In late March, the Lehigh Valley’s Partnership2Gether Committee will be embarking on a journey to Greece—only this odyssey won’t take 10 years, as the original did. 

Over the course of a week, the committee, along with delegates fro…