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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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William Safire, New York Times columnist, dies at 79
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter-turned-New York Times political columnist, usually sparred with Beltway power players. But in 2001 the wily wordsmith set his sights on one of th...
With new online venture, NCJW and Pitt broadcast local voices to the world
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
On Tuesday, the day after Yom Kippur, area Jews sat in the University Club in Oakland, eating raspberry sorbet and watching Ed Galloway resurrect old neighbors from the dead. With his actions proj...
Jewish efforts around the G-20: Iran, poverty and Darfur
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
The G-20 Summit came through Pittsburgh last week, drawing involvement from local and national Jewish groups on several issues, and leaving the local Jewish community unharmed. And while the summit...
Israel sees international court intervention as unlikely
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — So far, the U.N. fact-finding mission into last January’s war in Gaza has spawned a 574-page report faulting Israel for war crimes, op-eds calling on foreign governments to hold Israel a...
U.S. pledges to quash Goldstone report
by JTA
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel's conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court. A top White House officia...
Marty Allen returns to Allderdice for Hall of Fame induction
by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Forget the G-20 – you won’t even get close. Check out the A-6 instead. Pittsburgh Allderdice, formerly known as Taylor Allderdice, will induct six honorees in its inaugural Hall of Fame ceremonies,...
Shulman reveals the soul of modern architecture
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Viewing the photographs of Julius Shulman calls to mind the term Martin Buber coined for the early tales of the Chasidic movement: “legendary reality.” Buber called these magical stories “legendary...
Many Jews choose to be jurists in the United States
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
As the Jewish attorney stood in the courtroom arguing his case, he noted the time on his watch — 4 p.m. He had informed the judge that morning that he needed to be excused no later than 4 p.m. so h...
Dog, couple, terrorists intersect in hilarious read, 'Heroic Measures'
by Morton I. Teicher
For the Chronicle
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A well-written novel, “Heroic Measures,” by Jill Ciment, effectively combines three plot elements: a real estate transaction, a sick dog and terrorism in New York. Alex and Ruth Cohen met while the...
Once America’s mother, now forgotten, Molly Goldberg shines in new film
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Gertrude Berg is one of the few Jews who succeeded in the entertainment industry by playing up her Jewishness. Born Tilly Edelstein on the Lower East Side in 1898, she changed her name to Gertrude ...