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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 ...
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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...
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Pittsburghers have tennis success at Maccabiah 18
by The Chronicle staff
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Pittsburgh’s own Emma Leibowicz advanced to the second bronze medal round in the women’s Open division tennis tournament at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel. After winning her first match i...
Renewed Iran divestment effort faces timing hurdle
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
A new divestment effort is challenged by timing, but bolstered by strong momentum. The ongoing stalemate in the Pennsylvania General Assembly over the budget is gobbling time and energy in Harrisb...
SHHC gets federal funds to build mobile medical unit
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
The Squirrel Hill Health Center is going mobile, courtesy of the federal government. Susan Friedberg Kalson, CEO of the health center, has announced that the SHHC is receiving $310,725 in federal s...
Specter: Israel must decide its own fate
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
The future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank depends in part on arrangements Israel made with previous U.S. administrations, Sen. Arlen Specter said in Pittsburgh on Thursday, July 2. Speakin...
Political liability
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — If Avigdor Lieberman’s appointment as foreign minister seemed odd when it was made, recent developments cast more doubt over his capacity to function as Israel’s top diplomat. Israel’s ...
Israeli scouts inspire wonder and pride
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
They hit the road in a strange country in the summer to perform 110 high-energy shows in three months —as many as three a day, in all different locations — and visit a new town, stay with a new fam...
Jewish position on health care: Treatment for everyone
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 02, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
As Josh Shapiro starts his new assignment on a team of state lawmakers advising President Obama’s health care reform initiative, the state representative from the Philadelphia area credits his Jewi...
JCC provides free kosher lunches to children all summer long
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
If you went Tuesday to the back of the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill’s Irene Kaufmann Building between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., just behind the loading dock, you would have seen a bizarre sig...
Court rules for Franken in Minnesota recount
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — With its decision in favor of comedian Al Franken, the Minnesota Supreme Court has given the U.S. Senate its first veteran of “Saturday Night Live” — and left the chamber with no Jewis...
Jackson’s nose broke down stereotypes
by Ruth Ellen Gruber
JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
VIENNA — Amid all the noisy outpouring over Michael Jackson’s sudden death, the last place I expected to find him was in a Jewish museum. But there he was, his pale, mask-like, surgically engineere...