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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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Ascherman fights for human rights with the Torah as his guide
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
After Haaretz published accounts of abuse by the Israeli army during Operation Cast Lead, Rabbi Arik Ascherman first reacted biblically: crying, tearing his garments and fasting for a day. Then he ...
Where there’s Prince on the loudspeaker and apple juice in the sippy cup
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The woman grooving to the Whitney Houston song is dancing with a partner most ladies would not consider “traditionally handsome.” He’s less than 3 feet tall, he’s wearing orange shorts and he’s far...
Some Israeli, U.S. officials move to keep the volume down
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Stop the shouting, we’re trying to get something done over here — that’s the message from some U.S. and Israeli officials after weeks of reports about widening divergences over the set...
Wanted: Fundraising ideas
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Whoever thought you’d see a former U.S. poet laureate singing a kitschy jingle on YouTube asking for funds for a small nonprofit that most of his readers have never heard of? In today’s ...
Israeli graphic designer leaves New York for Pittsburgh
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The city of Pittsburgh is a far cry from an Israeli kibbutz. But after eight years of a hectic life in Manhattan, it sure feels like one to graphic artist Inbal Blumenfeld. Blumenfeld, who along w...
Summertime wines will take your mind off the headlines
by Uri Markovitz
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
I know it’s been way too long since you have read an article about something that would be considered a lifestyle decision. We read about the G-20 summit coming to Pittsburgh, the recession, the m...
Book review: 'Sashenka’
by Michele Jones
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Could you hold fast to your beliefs even if they went against your parents, family and friends? In the new novel “Sashenka,” by Simon Montefiore, the protagonist, Sashenka Zeitlin, is put to the t...
Wecht looks to resume normal life after charges were dropped
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
When Cyril Wecht’s family gathers for their weekly Sunday dinners, it is always a lively atmosphere, but this past Sunday, they had a special reason to rejoice: in addition to celebrating his daugh...
Speaker focuses on Jewish children with special needs
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, spoke at the Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center Sunday about Jewish ...
Steindels give rabbi’s library to Beth Shalom
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
On a hunch, Rabbi Stephen Steindel walked to the bookshelf and pulled down a volume titled, “The Pledge,” by Leonard Slater. He opened the hardback book and turned to page 24. Sure enough, his memo...