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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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Clinton said Israel’s concessions on settlement building fall short of Washington’s expectations
by JTA
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Israel’s concessions on settlement building fall short of Washington’s expectations. Two days after she praised Israel for offering what she call...
Time right for budget-minded shoppers to buy a green car
by The Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Nov 05, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear EarthTalk: Celebrities and billionaires are shelling out big bucks for cutting edge green-friendly cars such as the Tesla Roadster. But what are the rest of us, who live in the budget-constra...
UJF starting perennial school funding review
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
The United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is examining the way it funds the Jewish day schools in the city. The process, which the UJF says it undertakes every few years, could lead to cha...
Rabbi Danny Schiff will visit for series of programs
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Danny Schiff, former community scholar at the Agency for Jewish Learning, will be returning to Pittsburgh for a series of programs, lectures and classes the week of Nov. 16. After making aliy...
PBS documentary captures anti-Semitism behind the Frank case
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Nov 02, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Leo M. Frank may not be so well known among American Jews these days. His story is rarely taught in religious schools and rabbis barely acknowledge it from their pulpits on Shabbat. In a way, that’...
Project documents stories of Jewish refugees from Arab countries
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO — Joseph Samuels, born Yosef Sasson in Baghdad, was 18 when he fled Iraq for the new state of Israel. It was 1949, and life was becoming increasingly difficult for Jews in Iraq, as it...
Smokers use Earth as ashtray
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear EarthTalk: Has anyone ever studied the environmental impact of discarded cigarettes? I’m constantly appalled at the number of drivers I see pitching their butts out their car windows. — Ned J...
Iranian Jew Parish Kohanim credits parents, nature for his attraction to beauty
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
One of Parish Kohanim’s most cherished memories from his boyhood in Iran was sleeping outside “under the stars” during the summer. Those sleep-outs were necessitated by the lack of air conditioning...
Backstage at ‘Light’ rehearsal
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of stories about “Light” leading up to its opening on Nov. 12 at the Byham Theater.) Four men and four women stand in a line. One by one, the...
Concordia completes $15M purchase of the Covenant
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Concordia Lutheran Ministries has finalized its $15 million acquisition of Covenant at South Hills, the B’nai B’rith-sponsored continuing care retirement community in Mt. Lebanon, and has changed t...