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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 | 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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Rabbi serves secret Jews of the Southwest
by Amy Klein
JTA
May 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
EL PASO, Texas — Three strange things happened to Rabbi Stephen Leon the first week he moved here in 1986 to lead Congregation B’nai Zion, the Conservative synagogue in this border city. “Rabino,”...
U.S. statement on nukes pact stirs concerns in Israel
by Leslie Susser
JTA
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Given the delicate state of relations between the new administrations in Washington and Jerusalem, an American statement last week about the need for Israel to sign the nuclear nonproli...
Immigration examined
JCC art exhibit concludes with ‘Nests’
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
In the third exhibit of a three-part art exhibition at the American Jewish Museum at the Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center, entitled “Love/ Fences/Nests,” Anna Divinsky’s “Nests” exhibit is cur...
All adulturer-stoning aside, Jacobs’ year of living biblically changed his life
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
While A. J. Jacobs has given up the pursuit of adulterers to stone, he still maintains many of the practices he adopted during his “Year of Living Biblically.” Jacobs, the featured speaker at last ...
Jewish mock trial team ordeal teaches valuable lessons for all
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
A mock trial team from a Massachusetts Jewish day school got to compete for the national championship in Atlanta after coming close to abandoning its goal for religious reasons. The organizers for ...
Early childhood survey charts potential, challenges for Jewish schools
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
A survey of preschools and educators in Jewish Pittsburgh found that the programs here have much potential, but need considerable work. Pat Bidol-Padva, executive director of the Jewish Early Child...
Finance expert to speak at JF&CS annual meeting
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Headlining the Jewish Family & Children’s Service annual meeting Thursday, May 21, will be family finance expert Neale Godfrey. Nationally renowned, Godfrey has written 16 books on finance and has...
‘Eastern Wind’ a journey into roots of Near East rhythms
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
This ensemble of Jewish and Arab musicians is on a mission to prove that music really is the best diplomacy. Eliyahu and the Qadim Ensemble are out with a new CD, “Eastern Wind,” in a project that ...
For Arab-Jewish singing duo, coexistence conquers criticism
by Dina Kraft
JTA
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — Singers Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad look out at the crowd cheering them on at a packed Tel Aviv bar and beam delighted, almost surprised smiles as they sing their duet: a call for peace ...
PJN project, out of money, may be forced to shut down
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
When Carnegie Mellon University launched its Web-based archive of Pittsburgh Jewish newspapers — past and present — Gabrielle Michalek couldn’t believe what happened next. While the Web site got mo...