By Carolyn Katwan
P2G Chair - Lehigh Valley
Our community’s relationship with Israel has always been important.
For many years, we participated in Project Renewal, a Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) program that matched Diaspora communities with Israeli cities, with an emphasis on helping…
HAKOL editor Michelle Cohen accepted the paper’s first place award for "niche publication" in its division in the Keystone Press Awards, sponsored by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation. The two goals of the award, according to the website, are to “reinforce excellence by i…
Editor’s Note: As a special part of celebrating the Maimonides Society’s 30th anniversary, the society chose to fund an ambucycle (ambucycle #709) as part of their campaign. Ambucycles are used extensively in Israel with its narrow roads and high traffic congestion and dramatically reduc…
By Michelle Cohen
HAKOL Editor
Thanks to Yiddish Club, I was able to greet my grandmother with “Ich hab dir lieb” (I love you), speaking Yiddish to her for the first time in my life.
The club, which has existed for over 20 years, meets in the board room at the Jewish Community Center o…
Golfers had a great time on and off the links on June 19 at the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s sixth annual Mortimer S. Schiff Memorial Golf Tournament in support of prejudice reduction and bringing people together.
The golfers were able to enjoy about three hours of play time b…
