Jewish community raises awareness about disability

By Susan Sklaroff Van-Hook
Jewish Family Service 

What is “disability?” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were nearly 40 million Americans with a disability in 2015, representing 12.6 percent of the population. That estimate is 15-20 percent for the Jewish community. 

While …

Planned kosher winery coming to Lehigh Valley fulfills lifelong dream

By Sandi Teplitz
Special to HAKOL

Editor’s Note: Sandi Teplitz, our regular food correspondent, interviewed Kevin Danna, member of Congregation Sons of Israel and proprietor of Binah Winery.

Sandi: Tell me a little about your background, Kevin.

Kevin: I am native to a region of Southern…

Super Sunday to showcase one incredible community

By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing

The community will come together on Jan. 27, 2019, as we launch the new year for a day of mitzvot and money-raising in support of Jews and others in need right here at home and all around the world.

There will be more ways than ever for vo…

Local group turns one act of hate into ‘3,600 acts of love’

By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing

One week before the tragic shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Debi Wiener was attending a funeral at a Jewish cemetery in Fountain Hill. 

“We were just standing there, it was all quiet, and a car drove by … it had a couple guys in it…

Federation hosts ‘Stop the Bleed’ training

By Stephanie Bolmer
HAKOL Editor

On the evening of Monday, Dec. 10, nearly 50 people gathered in the Auxiliary Auditorium of the Jewish Community Center to learn how to potentially save a life. 

Dr. Peter Thomas, St. Luke’s University Health Network’s director of trauma, and a group o…