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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 | 12 12 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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Sam Fuld, Jewish MLB prospect, gets fresh start at Tampa Bay
by Jonathan Mayo
Mar 24, 2011 | 4 4 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
TAMPA, Fla. – I’m the first to admit that I have certain favorite subjects. I can’t help it. When I see outfielder Sam Fuld, I have to write about him. I first wrote about the outfielder back in th...
Instruments tell the story In ‘Amnon’s Journey’
by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Mar 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Amnon Weinstein’s journeys to countries that include Poland, France, Italy and Lithuania are chronicled in “Amnon’s Journey,” a short documentary of an enthusiast’s quest to locate and restore viol...
Escaping the box: 18 minutes to Passover freedom
by Edmon J. Rodman
JTA
Mar 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- In every generation, the Haggadah tells us, the wise, the simple, the non-askers and even the baddies are obligated to see themselves as though they themselves actually had come out ...
‘The Infidel’ opens JFilm Festival with a laugh
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Mar 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
What does a man’s name say about him? According to “The Infidel,” the 2010 British comedy that opens next week’s JFilm Festival, the answer is a lot, especially when he’s got two: Mahmud Nasir and ...
Turning Purim on its head with social action instead of drunkenness
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Mar 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO -- Purim is about costumes, outrageous Purim spiels and drinking until you can’t tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman, the hero and villain of the Purim story. Or is it? ...
‘How the End Begins’ gives sobering analysis of nukes today
by Neal Gendler
For the Chronicle
Mar 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Ron Rosenbaum foresees world toleration of “incessant incitement to genocide” leading Israel to use nuclear weapons to pre-empt an impending nuclear attack. “Israelis will not wait for the world to...
JRS newsletter addresses issues of special needs community
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Mar 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish Pittsburghers with special needs can now access information about community services through Connections, a collaborative e-newsletter sponsored by several local organizations. The newslette...
Knesset committee to discuss J Street
by JTA
Mar 10, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli Knesset committee will hold a hearing on the activities of J Street. The Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Public Diplomacy Committee said Wednesday that the hearing on J...
What the Civil War meant for American Jews, then and now
by Jonathan D. Sarna
For the Forward
Mar 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
WALTHAM, Mass. — The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is upon us. April 12 is the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, the war’s opening shot. From then, through the sesquicentennial anniver...
Yiddish lit professor says mamma loschen led to modernity
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Mar 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
To Ruth Wisse, world-renown professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard University, the modernization of the Jewish people can be found in Yiddish literature. “Jews became modern mos...