HAKOL - October 2021

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The Voice of the Lehigh Valley Jewish Community

www.jewishlehighvalley.org

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Issue No. 447

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October 2021

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Tishrei/Cheshvan 5782

AWARD-WINNING PUBLICATION EST. 1977

Celebrate PJ Library’s birthday with a look at the past 10 years! p16-17

It’s “your time” to thrive - learn what’s happening in the older adult community in our special section p22-25

FROM THE DESK OF JERI ZIMMERMAN p2 WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY p4 LVJF TRIBUTES p8 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE p15 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER p18-19 JEWISH DAY SCHOOL p20 COMMUNITY CALENDAR p31

LIFE & LEGACY Celebration set to close out Year 4 Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos and CTM Classics labels. A professor since 2003 at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, he has performed and presented master classes around the world including at the Marlboro and Newport Music Festivals and the Heifetz International Music Summer Institute in the U.S., the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in England, and Keshet Eilon in Israel. Peled performs on a cello made by the Italian master Giovanni Grancino, ca. 1695, on generous loan from the Roux Family Foundation. He is

represented worldwide by CTM Classics. The Lehigh Valley Jewish Foundation celebrates the 10 partnership organizations in the Lehigh Valley who worked together to make the LIFE & LEGACY experience a success in our community: Congregation Am Haskalah, Congregation Bnai Shalom, Congregation Brith Sholom, Congregation Keneseth Israel, Congregation Sons of Israel, Jewish Community Center of the Lehigh Valley, Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley, Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley, Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley and Temple Beth El.

PHOTO BY LISA MARIE MAZZUCCO

On Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Lehigh Valley Jewish community will celebrate a successful fourth year of the LIFE & LEGACY program. LIFE & LEGACY, which is a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, has the goal of generating legacy gifts in the Lehigh Valley Jewish community. As of June 30, 560 commitments with an estimated value of $10.4 million were made by over 300 donors across the Lehigh Valley. The Oct. 12 celebration is cosponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled will perform at the 7 p.m. event via Zoom. Praised by The Strad magazine and The New York Times, Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including

Contact mailbox@jflv.org by Oct. 8 to receive the Zoom link to the Year 4 Celebration. Amit Peled is represented worldwide by CTM Classics. To learn more, visit www.amitpeled.com.

Federation to host two seminars on antisemitism By Stephanie Goodling HAKOL Editor

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With antisemitism on the rise and the ArabIsraeli conflict in the news, Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is partnering with other organizations to bring two separate seminars addressing antisemitism to the community this fall. On Oct. 17 at 12 p.m., middle and high school teens are invited to join “Antisemitism or Not?” This program will be facilitated by Karen Stiller, Middle East project director at the JCRC of San Francisco, which is co-sponsoring the event with the Community Relations Council of the Lehigh Valley. Students will learn to identify what constitutes an antisemitic encounter in person, at school and/or on social media. “This program will allow teens to practice how to react to different scenarios, all in a safe, close environment,” explained Aaron Gorodzinksy, Federation director of

campaign and security planning. “It’s very important for those who are going to school to be ready and prepared to stand up for themselves.” The plan is to meet in a hybrid setting, both at the Jewish Community Center of the Lehigh Valley and over Zoom. Then, on Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m., Federation is teaming up with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism to present a virtual opportunity to learn about what organizations in the Jewish community are doing to confront the prevalence of antisemitism on social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “We’ll hear from an expert who is drafting policy and helping social media companies to not only commit to fighting antisemitism but to implement changes to make that happen,” said Gorodzinsky. To sign up for these events, contact Aaron Gorodzinsky at 610-821-5500 or aaron@jflv.org.


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