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<i>Courtesy of Sora Jederan-Shpack<br> Sora Jederan-Shpack (center) talked with Israeli president Shimon Peres on her last day of work at Ramat Rachel. “All the walls are only mistakes. Peace is the only hope,” he said, as Jederan-Shpack remembers. </i> Deuteronomy, Shimon Peres inspire adult CMU student’s opera
When she first decided she wanted to compose an opera, Sora Jederan-Shpack made a list of all the topics she thought would make good fodder, specifically excluding anything having to do with relig...
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Pittsburgh-led Jewish trip stranded off Chilean coast
A group of 16 Jewish adventure-seekers returning from a trip to Antarctica found themselves stranded on Easter Island for several days in the wake of Chile’s massive earthquake, which hit last Sat...
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<i>Juan Eduardo Donoso / Creative Commons photo<br> Rescue workers in Santiago cope with the aftermath of the earthquake that rocked Chile, Saturday Feb. 27. </i> Jewish Pittsburgher was in Chile when earthquake hit
(Editor’s note: Jillian Irwin, a Pittsburgh native and premed student at Harvard University, was in Chile for a semester of study at the University of Chile when the Feb. 27 earthquake hit. She wa...
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<i>Steel Chef Competion winner Don Megahan, on left, taping an episode of "Emeril Green" with Chef Emeril Lagasse. Courtesy Don Megahan.</i> Rodef Shalom music director cooks on 'Emeril Green' program
One of Rodef Shalom Congregation’s own will be cooking on television in an upcoming episode of “Emeril Green,” on Planet Green, a 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network. But that’s not the only ...
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Local Israelis speak out on expatriate voting bill
Thirty-five years ago, when Tzvi Shuldiner first emigrated to America from Israel after the Yom Kippur War, his first reaction wasn’t awe, or extreme joy or remorse. It was a bit of confusion. “P...
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Jewish pharmacist runs ‘green’ pharmacy in Pittsburgh
Your local Rite Aid, this ain’t. At the Murray Avenue Apothecary they make their own compounds; they sell whole food-based vitamins and other organic supplements; they built the Greenfield-based s...
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<i>Rabbi Alysa Stanton</i> First female black rabbi tells her story at Pitt
At an age when most kids are contemplating what they’ll do during recess, Alysa Stanton was contemplating which religion was right for her. She was 9 when she called a priest out of the blue to di...
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Donsky returns from Israel tour, to hold presentation
For Rabbi Art Donsky, there are many different faces to Israel, and he recently went searching for one in particular. The spiritual leader of Temple Ohav Shalom in Allison Park, and co-leader of J...
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Jewish books from suburban library may find home in Africa
Scores of Jewish books, currently sitting unused at the Jefferson Hills Library near Clairton, will soon be on their way to Africa. After receiving the books a couple months ago from the owner of ...
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Pittsburgh Public Thea... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
This Arthur Miller play about two estrange...
Pittsburgh Jewish Isra... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival Op...
CDS Night at the Movies 6:30 PM
Community Day School will hold its annual ...