80 years post-liberation, camp accounts lend intensity to Yom HaShoah event

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor 

Eighty years had passed since the liberation of the concentration camps when the Lehigh Valley Jewish community gathered in the JCC to remember Holocaust victims on Yom HaShoah. 

“Their stories must continue to be told not only to preserve history but to safeg…

Lipschutz granddaughter gives Yom HaShoah talk at capitol

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

A group from the Lehigh Valley Jewish community traveled to Harrisburg on Yom HaShoah for the annual Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust at the state capitol. Leah Leisawitz, a seventh-grader who spent three years at the Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley durin…

Israeli ‘Idol’ winner tells 10/7 survival story at Beth El

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Hagit Yaso woke up early on October 7, 2023, in her home in Sderot, Israel, near the Gaza border. The weather was perfect and she headed out for a run. It was Shabbat and, as a Jew who keeps Shabbat, she didn’t take her phone. 

Yaso, a daughter of Ethiopian Jews…

Lauren Rabin to become Women’s Philanthropy president

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Lauren Rabin understands what it’s like to be a young mom with young kids and still want to volunteer in the community. 

Fifteen years ago she moved to the Lehigh Valley with her husband, Doron, and two young children. With no local family to help out with the k…

Lehigh Valley and Yoav, Israel, liaisons bond during week in Greece

By Connor Hayes
Director of Community Programming

Members of the Lehigh Valley and Yoav, Israel, Partnership2Gether committees left their homes for a March 16-23 trip to Greece with several goals in mind. These were not only to hold the annual joint steering committee meeting, at which comm…