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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 | 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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Legislature takes up Iran divestment bill
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
HARRISBURG — Members of Pittsburgh’s Iran Task Force were in Harrisburg Tuesday to support state Rep. Josh Shapiro as he announced he would reintroduce his terror-free investing legislation. “I fee...
Chinese delegation visits CDC, studies career counseling methods
by Dev Meyers
Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
A delegation of Chinese career counselors visited the Career Development Center of Jewish Family and Children’s Service in Squirrel Hill on Friday. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations se...
W.Va. Holocaust commission struggles for funding, survival
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WHEELING, W.Va. — As Mary Haas stood before a crowd of 50 people Sunday at a Temple Shalom Yom Hashoa program, preparing to present a documentary on the life of Israeli poet Hannah Senesh, she made...
The winners!
Temple Sinai captures Synagogue League title
by By Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
For the third time in the last four years, Temple Sinai captured the High School Synagogue League Championship at the Jewish Community Center, defeating Or L’Simcha 64-51. Coached by Chronicle colu...
UJC takes step towards more layoffs, budget cuts
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Under pressure from the federations that it serves, the United Jewish Communities took a step toward implementing an 18 percent budget cut that will include significant layoffs, the sec...
Post-Katrina rebuilding fuels Jewish service movement
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW ORLEANS — In mid-March, more than 500 of the Jewish federation system’s young leaders descended upon the St. Bernard Parish in metropolitan New Orleans to help turn a school that was abandoned...
Pro-Israel activists set to do battle at Durban II
by Michael J. Jordan
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Eight years ago, at the first U.N. World Conference Against Racism, pro-Israel activists endured a week of hate-filled insults, pamphlets, posters and marches in the streets...
Honoring those who saved Jews during the Holocaust
by By Mike Zoller Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
During Yom HaShoah, we remember those lives lost during the Holocaust. However, few people will think to honor those who protected Jews when the risk was so great. Without their heroism, who knows...
Pittsburghers to rally in Harrisburg for divestment from Iran
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
On Tuesday, State Rep. Josh Shapiro, along with members of the Iran Task Force from Pittsburgh, will reintroduce a bill to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives prohibiting Pennsylvania pension...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane — oy gevalt, it’s a Jewish ‘Watchmensch’
by Rachel Freedenberg
Apr 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO — Who watches the watchmensch? Yes, you read that right — the comic book “Watchmen” is getting a Yiddish makeover courtesy of a British comic writer. And in fitting with “Watchmen’s” ...