facebook
twitter

needayoutubeicon donate

style
<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
full story
<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
full story
KLDH_campus_superstar.jpg
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
full story
<i>
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
full story
Archives
Documentary ties together Holocaust survival, interfaith marriage
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Through family connections, L. Mark DeAngelis first heard the story of Leah Welbel. She was on the first women’s train to Auschwitz and survived there for 33 months. She watched as her entire famil...
Saving Shanghai’s Jewish past, headstone by headstone to speak out
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
SHANGHAI, China — In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Western philanthropists and volunteers are restoring dozens of historic Jewish cemeteries. But in Shanghai, there are none to res...
Linking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — As Israel’s new government reviews its foreign policy options, Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under increasing pressure from Israel’s main ally and biggest trading partner to stay on cou...
Program helps refugees get accustomed to Pittsburgh
by Dev Meyers
Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
At the turn of the 20th century, Litvaks, Galitzianers, Russians and others came to western Pennsylvania, fleeing persecution, hoping to start a better life. Some things never change. Only the nam...
Officials: German rabbinical school stays afloat with Pittsburgh aid
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
While a global recession threatens the future of one or more campuses of the Reform rabbinical seminary in the United States, the only such school in Europe is actually poised for growth. Rabbi Wal...
Dor Hadash to honor its senior members
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Congregation Dor Hadash will be honoring 21 of its senior members during a special Shabbat service and luncheon Saturday, May 9. The celebration, called “Seasons of Your Lives,” will recognize the ...
Star coach headlines Maccabi USA event — and keeps his shirt on
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — It’s not unheard of to find Bruce Pearl, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, somewhere in public screaming with his shirt off — be it as a spectator rooting on the...
Jewish lullabies could make lifelong listeners out of newborns
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
If you’re expecting a baby, or have a few already, here’s a CD a Jewish parent should have handy. “Songs from the Garden of Eden: Jewish Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes,” produced by a little-known pu...
Israel responds harshly to Ahmadinejad rhetoric
by By Leslie Susser
Apr 22, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — The timing of the Iranian president’s latest fulmination against Israel was particularly auspicious. Speaking from the podium of the Durban II conference in Geneva on the eve of Holocau...
Greenberg, Fuld remind us why we love baseball
by Jonathan Mayo
Apr 22, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the things I love most about covering baseball, especially my usual stomping grounds in the Minor Leagues, are the guys who aren’t the huge prospects, who don’t have the best tools. Sure tho...