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The Main Event! A night of storytelling and reflections with Joel Chasnoff

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Joel Chasnoff has written or cowritten four best-selling books. More than 1,500 audiences in 10 countries have gathered to hear his partly serious, partly light take on Israel and American Jewish life. Yet, as he likes to say, his mother still dreams he’ll go to l…

Passover primaries: Don't miss out on voting. Request a mail-in ballot now

After Pennsylvania lawmakers failed to change the date of its primary elections from the first day of Passover, April 23, Jewish agencies in the state focused their efforts on getting the word out to make sure members of the Jewish community request mail-in ballots and mail in their votes on…

Community talks it out at post-10/7 healing session

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor 

“A Conversation about Being Jewish in a Post-October 7 World” was the title of the presentation and discussion in the JCC Kline Auditorium on February 27. Stuart Horowitz and Debbie Zoller of Jewish Family Service guided the gathering sponsored by JFS, the JCC…

Easton company donates math games to Ukraine schools

It was early February and young students at the World ORT school Zhabotinski Lyceum No. 94 in Ukraine were standing around a big brown shipping box with “Easton, PA” marked on the side. As they watched, the teacher opened the container and started pulling out small boxes with the logo 24…

Run. Hide. Fight: Staffers learn how to respond to active threats

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

Run. Hide. Fight. “If you don’t take anything else away from today, that’s what you need to take away,” Tim Brooks, regional security advisor for the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, told staffers of the Federation, synagogues, and Jewish agencies dur…