The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is pleased to announce that Stephanie Bolmer has been named the new editor of HAKOL.
While she is new to the Marketing Department, Bolmer is well-known in the community: she has worked as an administrative assistant at the Federation for the past f…
By Stephanie Bolmer
HAKOL Editor
Maybe you’ve never heard the name Haym Salomon, but you know his friends. Alexander Hamilton. John Adams. George Washington. The name of Salomon—known as the “financier of the American Revolution”—belongs among these revered heroes, but when author…
By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing
One by one, standing side by side, each member of the clergy announced his or her name and place of worship. They came from churches, mosques and temples across the Lehigh Valley. Sixty in all.
They spoke to the more than 1,000 people gath…
By Stephanie Smartschan
Director of Marketing
One day after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 Jews dead, students and parents in the Lehigh Valley gathered at Temple Beth El for a workshop on anti-Semitism.
The workshop had been planned by the Jewish Federation’s Commun…
By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing
Mark L. Goldstein, beloved husband, father and leader of the Lehigh Valley Jewish community, passed away on October 11, 2018, after living with cancer for an extended time. He was 60 years old.
Mark served as the executive director of the…
