Community News

How Your Taxes Can Help Low-Income Students

By Stephanie Bolmer

Everybody loves a win-win situation, and that’s just what the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program is. The EITC program provides companies with tax credit for donations to non-profit scholarship organizations. The scholarship funds are distrib…

Local Clergy Attend Anti-BDS Training in Philadelphia

By Rabbi Melissa B. Simon
Muhlenberg Hillel

Clergy and Jewish organization officials from Pennsylvania and New Jersey gathered on April 25 at the Jewish Community Services Building in Philadelphia for a training designed to strengthen the connections between the Jewish community and Mainlin…

Healthcare Innovator to Join Maimonides Society for 30th Anniversary

Though he is currently living in Philadelphia, by way most recently of Tampa, and serving as the president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Dr. Steve Klasko’s ties to the Lehigh Valley run deep.

His older brother attended Lehigh University and invited him to a …

Federation to Honor Commnunity and State Leaders

Two Jewish community leaders and the leadership of the state of Pennsylvania will be honored by the Jewish Federation this year at its annual meeting on June 14.

Eric Fels, chairman of the Federation’s Community Relations Council, former president of Congregation Keneseth Israel and nomin…

JDS Graduate Earns Top Honors in International Bible Competition

By Stephanie Smartschan
JFLV Director of Marketing

In the Jerusalem Theatre on Israeli Independence Day, contestants from around the world gathered for the final round of the Chidon HaTanach competition.

Noah Notis, a graduate of the Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley and a senior at K…