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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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Former Nazi lieutenant sentenced to life in prison
by JTA
Aug 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
A former Nazi lieutenant was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of Italian civilians in June 1944. Josef Scheungraber was found guilty Tuesday by a Munich court of 10 of the 14 mu...
Rabbinic group endorses human rights for Israel’s Arab minority
by JTA
Aug 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
A rabbinic group endorsed an organization promoting human rights for Israel’s Arab minority. The Central Conference of American Rabbis, which represents 2,000 Reform rabbis, adopted a resolution Tu...
Lila Hirsch Brody’s acrylic painting class hosts its annual exhibition at JCC
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Look at the 35 pieces on display at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill and you’ll notice painting techniques appearing over and over: fiber paper applied to the canvas for texture, or pai...
Jewish filmmaker scouts city for ‘love letter’ to Pittsburgh
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Aug 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Filmmaker Matt Boatright-Simon says he aspires to be “Pittsburgh’s Woody Allen,” but he doesn’t much look the part. They both may be Jewish filmmakers, but Boatright-Simon, who is young, large and ...
Wiesel crafts a reverent portrait of the 11th century Torah scholar
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the most inventive commentaries of Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak, the 11th century rabbi known universally as Rashi, comes on the first word in the Torah. Rashi says, “Bereshit” should not be tr...
Community barbecue aims to bring Jews together in eastern suburbs
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
To successfully bring together Jews of different backgrounds and beliefs, you need a couple of things: a neutral location not associated with any particular synagogue, food that meets the broadest...
Messages from exhibit sent to Western Wall
Aug 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Prayers like these, which were stuck in the crevices of a replica Western Wall at a 2006 Duquesne University history exhibit, have since been transferred to the real deal in Jerusalem. According to...
The funniest People on earth
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 07, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
There are four ways to read the title of Judd Apatow’s new movie, “Funny People.” Does “funny” mean the characters, all comedians, are humorous? Or does it mean they’re funny in the other definitio...
City honors its oldest (Jewish) resident -- Kozak
by Angela Leibowicz
Community and Web Editor
Aug 07, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Evelyn Kozak was ready for the media Tuesday. And she wasn’t disappointed. With reporters and photographers looking on, Kozak sat in the aviary of the Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Cent...
Land reform to privatize parts of Jewish state
by Daniella Cheslow
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV -- Efrat Avigzer, 37, lives in a three-bedroom house with no bomb shelter in Ofakim, a town of 25,000 people in the Negev. When she and her husband signed up for a housing lot more than t...