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<i>"Shadowscape VI" by Ruth Levine</i>
Three Jewish women showcased at Westmoreland art exhibit
Three Jewish artists are being featured at a “pop-up” show at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. The show opens Wednesday, March 6, and runs through Sunday, March 31. Ruth Levin...
Mar 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Eddie Rosenstein</i>
Eddie Rosenstein uses humor to make very real, serious films
How did a nice Jewish boy from Squirrel Hill end up in an East Harlem drug rehabilitation center? Fortunately, for Eddie Rosenstein, it wasn’t for treatment, but it was to create the award-winning ...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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More finalists from CMU named for March 21 Campus Superstar finale
Three more finalists have been named in the 2013 “Campus Superstar” competition. They are among the 10 finalists who will vie for a $5,000 grand prize Thursday, March 21, at Carnegie Music Hall in ...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alan Olifson, who hosts “The Moth” at the Rex Theater, South Side, finds plenty of work in Pittsburgh for a Jewish stand up comic. (Photo courtesy of Alan Olifson)</i>
Pittsburgh comedian leaves them in stitches at The Moth
No joke: Alan Olifson moved from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh about two years ago so he would have more opportunities to perform comedy. As it turned out, he was right. Olifson, who hosts The Moth’s m...
Mar 04, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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YouTube removes Blumenthal video from its Web site
by JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — YouTube has removed footage of young American Jews making racist remarks about President Obama. Attempts to access the video Friday were met with a message from the video-sharing Web sit...
Iran turmoil likely to benefit Israel
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Like the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago, the outcome of the postelection unrest in Iran could be of major strategic significance for the Middle East and for Israel....
Finding the healing power of creative work
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
The image of a dignified bird standing in an open palm shows up again and again in “Nature/Nurture: A Prayer,” a new exhibit from Pittsburgh artist Leslie Golomb showing through Sept. 10 at the Cha...
Freestyle swimmer succeeds
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Paul Weinstein completed his freshman year at Emory University, where he swam for the Emory Eagles. At the NCAA Division III National Championships at the University of Minnesota, Paul finished thi...
White Oak tries to preserve its unique mikvah
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Gershon Gutman wriggles a key into the lock, but it won’t budge. “It’s the humidity,” he says. Gutman is trying to open a simple white door centered on the side of a detached two-car garage that s...
Clubhouse damaged
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
By Eric Lidji Associate Editor A Squirrel Hill assistance center for those with mental illness temporarily relocated last week, after a severe thunderstorm caused significant flooding to its usual ...
Can Jewish groups balance security with access?
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — A few days after last week’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the interim director of the Kansas City Jewish Community Center had to reassure the parent of a...
Will Bibi’s speech be enough for Palestinians, Americans?
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — After two months of intense American pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally uttered the magic words: two states for two peoples. “In my peace vision, there are two ...
Glenn Greene's stained glass art pursues 'social common sense'
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Resembling a pregray Jerry Garcia, with bushy hair held in place by a modish black and white bandana, stained glass artist Glenn Greene sees his craft as much more than synagogue windows and histor...
Concordia to be sold
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Future of historically Jewish club uncertain