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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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Rubenstein’s cycling trips make a difference in kids’ lives
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Some people take road trips to the beach during their summer vacations. Others might fly in air-conditioned comfort to foreign destinations. Then there’s Mark Rubenstein, who takes disadvantaged y...
Life story, Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Jewish groups don’t endorse U.S. Supreme Court nominees, at least in writing. The tears and choked sobs when Sonia Sotomayor accepted President Obama’s nomination on Tuesday told anoth...
Ex-Pittsburgh rabbi reached out to mosque of FBI informant
by Alex Weisler
JTA
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Packed tightly on the west bank of the Hudson River 60 miles north of Manhattan, the hometown of the four men believed to be behind the plot to bomb two Bronx synagogues is a study...
Hamas reassessing strategy following war’s outcome
by Leslie Susser
JTA
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Four months after the Gaza war, Hamas seems to be reassessing the wisdom of firing rockets at Israeli civilians — at least for now. Although there is no formal cease-fire, fewer than a ...
Red, White and (oy!) Blue
Jewish Music Festival returns with American theme
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Ready to kick off its sixth year, the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival will run from June 2 to June 15. Following on last year’s theme of Israel at 60, this year’s theme is The Jews in America. “Af...
At Hillel Academy, doctor gets big hand for transplanting two of them
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
A physician is taking the medical art of transplant surgery to new heights, and more specifically, hands. Dr. Gerald Brandacher, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center transplant surgeon wh...
Rodef Shalom garden showcases Biblical beauty plants
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Let’s face it. A modern gal needs her lipstick, eyebrow pencil, nail polish and skin lotions to look and feel her best. So it may come as no surprise that this is nothing new. While the tubes a...
Bibi gets his first date thrill, but what about the relationship?
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — With a presidential pledge to hang tough on Iran under his belt, Benjamin Netanyahu could be forgiven for thinking Barack Obama was an easy first date. Wait until he hears about what h...
He’s a handball wizard — and he’s Jewish, too
by Jonathan Mayo
May 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Love of a sport is something that can be like an heirloom, passed down from parent to child. In the parent’s perfect dream, the child not only grows to love the sport, but maybe he even excels at i...
Former Pittsburgher battles Facebook over Holocaust denial groups
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 20, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Facebook, the popular social networking Internet site, allows its users all over the world to stay connected with friends, post photos and videos, and form special interest discussion groups on a v...