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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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Lifecare, Concordia both submit bids for the Covenant
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Aug 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Two separate entities have submitted formal bids to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the purchase of the Covenant at South Hills, meeting the Court’s Aug. 24 deadline for all such bids. Lifecare of t...
An Israeli tale of love and war
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Wars start and stop, but they don’t end. The impact of a war continues long after the fighting is over, and extends even to places where the fighting never took place. “Strangers” is about the re...
Tarantino crafts a powerful, but uneasy, tale of Jewish vengeance
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Everyone gets called a Nazi sooner or later. Obama is a Nazi. Bush was a Nazi. Rush Limbaugh and Nancy Pelosi, too. Also health care, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the war in Iraq, Israelis and Aftonbladet....
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein was an educator and spiritual mentor
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 24, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Altein, an educator, administrator and spiritual mentor in the local Lubavitch community for more than 60 years, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22. He was 86. Altein came to Pitt...
Construction begins on new Downtown synagogue
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Aug 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Construction of the new Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob synagogue in Downtown Pittsburgh is under way. Work began in June at the old Central Blood Bank building at 812 Fifth Ave. The congregation...
Seeing Israel-Palestine everywhere, even among the aliens
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Just like the laws of geometry become clearest in extreme parallelograms, the laws of humanity emerge in science fiction. Aliens tell humans what it means to be human. First-time South Af...
UJF sending nearly quarter million to help Ethiopian youth in Israel
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
The Pittsburgh Jewish community is sending $242,000 to fund education and outreach programs for young Israeli Ethiopians, the United Jewish Federation has announced. The money will go toward cover...
The price of waiting for indictments in Olmert, Lieberman cases
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Aug 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — When a handful of rabbis, mayors and public officials were among the 44 people arrested last month in New Jersey, capping an FBI corruption probe of many y ears, the suspects were hauled...
Swedish newspaper accuses Israeli soldiers of harvesting human organs from Palestinians
Aug 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
A leading Swedish newspaper accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting human organs from Palestinians. In a large spread in its culture section, the Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported that young Palest...
Day schools taking measures to prevent swine flu's spread
by Gil Shefler
JTA
Aug 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Some schools are pouring bleach over desks. Others are stocking bathrooms with anti-bacterial soap.As summer vacation nears an end and students set to return to classrooms, Jewish school...