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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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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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‘Enemies: A Love Story’ puts Yiddish characters in bleak America
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Jun 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: “Retro Reviews” is a yearlong series in which Chronicle Correspondent Hilary Daninhirsch will review Jewish-themed books that have been out of print for decades, or perhaps remain ...
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival draws inspiration from fables
by Toby Tabachnick
Jun 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Three of the most renowned tales in Jewish folklore will come to life beginning this week, courtesy of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival. The Festival, an annual summer concert series founded in...
AJM’s new exhibition examines our relationship with water
by Justin Jacobs, Associate Editor
Jun 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s all around us — and inside us — but in many ways, we take it for granted. It’s water, and it’s the theme of “Too Shallow for Diving: The 21st Century is Treading Water,” a new exhibition at th...
Point Park puts on 'Diary of Anne Frank'
by Justin Jacobs, Associate Editor
May 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
There is no shortage of routes to take when learning about the Holocaust: visiting the museums, reading the books, watching the movies or talking to the survivors. But, as Shirley Tannenbaum, head ...
Won ‘Jeopardy!’ (What did the rabbi do on Monday?)
by Jason Miller
JTA
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- Jews have a reputation for answering a question with a question. That might help explain Rabbi Joyce Newmark’s big news -- she is now a “Jeopardy!” champion. In the epis...
Jews play important, supporting role in ‘Freedom Riders’
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
May 13, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Israel Dresner remembers a particular conversation on a particular night in 1962. He was in Georgia, in a house with Dr. Martin Luther King, speaking about the histories of blacks and Jews. ...
Chabad of South Hills plans night of laughter as therapy
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Esther Rachel Russell is a professional laugh therapist and a comedian. No, those are not the same thing. The Los Angeles native will bring her brand of laughter therapy to Pittsburgh, Thursday, M...
Israelis recalling the Holocaust victims on Yom Hashoa
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May 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel's busiest highway on Holocaust Remembrance Day comes to a standstill.
Jewish Pittsburgh artist wins international prize, to make prints in China for exhibition
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 05, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Leslie Golomb never wins anything, not even a Bingo game. But it seems the Jewish Pittsburgh artist’s fortune has changed — and in a big way. Golomb will embark next week for an all-expense paid ...
Israeli scientist uses MRI technology to protect pure water, detect threats
by Jennifer Manning
For the Chronicle
May 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Below the Earth’s surface, water — perhaps our most precious resource — is stored in geological formations called aquifers. “It’s important to know that more than 95 percent of the Earth’s accessib...