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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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Swine flu hits Jewish summer camp
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
On the morning of June 24, as dozens of Pittsburgh children eagerly waited in line to board the bus that would take them on their annual eight-hour journey to Utterson, Ontario, they found that, fo...
Funeral held Sunday
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
A 14-year-old female camper died following a weather-related accident at the Emma Kaufmann Camp, in Morgantown, W.Va. the The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh has announced Thursday. ...
Brüno wants to get into the hearts, minds and pants of audience
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
What does “Brüno” have to say about the state of the Middle East? Almost nothing. Almost, but not entirely. Brüno, in his search for fame across America, pokes fun at various high profile, celebrit...
Jews, Catholics, business leaders join forces to back EITC
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
A statewide coalition of Jewish, Catholic and business leaders is working the phones and Internet to drum up support for a tax credit that provides educational opportunities for thousands of Jewish...
Iran bill passes House committee
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A state House committee last week passed a bill that would divest state funds of companies with ties to Iran or Sudan, but added new language guiding how the state should reimburse any losses to th...
Thousands of volumes available at B’nai Emunoh Book Sale
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Rare Torah commentaries? Check. The Complete Works of Shakespeare? Check. Prayer books in Hebrew and Russian? Check. Dr. Seuss? Check. These are just a sampling of the gems to be found in the sea o...
Artist captures memories of Polish village before the Shoa
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
In “Everything is Illuminated,” Jonathan Safran Foer says Jews have a sixth sense: memory. “The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins,” Foer writes. “It is only by tracing the pinprick b...
Holy pachalafaka! Yiddishe Cup has a new klezmer CD
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Have you ever imagined a klezmer band that includes Mel Brooks, Don Ho, Soupy Sales and Bobby McFerrin? No, of course you haven’t. But it gives you an idea what to expect from the latest CD by Cle...
Nahshon brings message of Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 16, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
As Jews from around the world come to Israel, the country has learned to incorporate Americans, Russians and Ethiopians into its society. That’s why Ami Nahshon believes the country is now up to th...
Local NCJW-led coalition lobbies for Sotomayor
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Before Senate confirmation hearings began Monday for federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a coalition of Pittsburgh organizations led by the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women ...