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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 | 12 12 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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Documentary shows trials, triumphs of Soviet Jews who dared to leave
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Marching down Pennsylvania Avenue on a cold December day in 1987, at the now-famous Washington rally for Soviet Jewry, I held up a sign calling on the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to free Yev...
Russia says sanctions are counterproductive
by JTA
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Russia believes it is “counterproductive” to threaten Iran with more sanctions, its foreign minister said. Sergey Lavrov made the statement following a meeting Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State ...
Divestment conference to be held at Pitt
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Oct 15, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Pro-Palestinian activists are planning a three-day conference next week at the University of Pittsburgh to campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. And while some Jewish lead...
Koerner’s post-war life reflected in Chatham exhibit
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
For those who remember painter Henry Koerner, “Henry Koerner’s Pittsburgh,” now on display at Chatham University, may evoke feelings of bittersweet nostalgia for the friendly, upbeat artist who spe...
Dating after 65? ‘Senior Moments’ finds the laughs
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Sometimes, a woman has to kiss a lot of frogs before she meets her prince. But is all that metaphoric frog kissing still worth it after a certain age? In “Senior Moments,” a semi-autobiographical p...
State cuts EITC; Tax credit prorated this year, cut further next year
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The state budget recently approved by Gov. Ed Rendell cuts $15 million from a tax credit program used to help Pittsburgh students afford Jewish day schools and pre-K programs. The budget approved o...
Zakaria sees reasons for optimism in the Middle East
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will come when the two sides realize they have more to gain from coexistence than from opposition, political commentator Fareed Zakaria told a crowd ...
Italian Jews launch new Jewish newspaper -- for non-Jews
by Ruth Ellen Gruber
JTA
Oct 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
ROME -- When Italy’s first national Jewish newspaper launches this month, Italy will get what few Jewish communities around the world offer: a Jewish newspaper geared toward non-Jews. Sponsored by...
'Lebanon' latest film to explore Israel's Vietnam
by Dina Kraft
JTA
Oct 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV -- From the depths of an Israeli soldier turned middle-aged filmmaker's haunted memories, the new award-winning movie "Lebanon" consists mainly of scenes shot from inside a sweat- and anxi...
Jews of color come together to explore identity
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Oct 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
PETALUMA, Calif. -- Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, resembles her Chinese father more than her Jewish mother. She’s been Jewish her whole life, but she’s used to walking into synagogue...