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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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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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“Funny People” takes the story of Jewish comedy to a new place
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 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...
Jewish women also serve by standing and waiting, new book says
by Morton I. Teicher
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
As author Alison Buckholtz tells us at the beginning of her remarkable autobiographical memoir, “Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War,” the pattern for American m...
Saudi king urges Palestinians to unite
by JTA
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Saudi King Abdullah urged Palestinians to unite, saying their internal divisions have done more harm to their cause than Israel has. "I frankly tell you that all that the arrogant and...
Jews on Ukraine influential list
by JTA
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
KIEV, Ukraine -- Two rabbis join mayors and billionaires on a Kiev weekly's list of most influential people in two Ukrainian regions. Eduard Gurvitz, the mayor of Odessa, was named the most influen...
U.S. vigils remember slain gay Israelis
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — An Orthodox rabbi spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric in the Orthodox community at a Washington vigil mourning two Jews slain at a gay center in Tel Aviv. “It’s time to do some interna...
Are Jewish boys in crisis?
by Amy Klein
JTA
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- At 15, Apollo Lev was the physical embodiment of healthy, rosebud youth, with cherubic features -- bright clear skin, plump lips, a faint smudge of pale cherry pink on each cheek. ...
Hillel Boys relocating to Beth Shalom
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
After three years at Congregation Poale Zedeck, Hillel Academy plans to relocate its boys high school this month to Pittsburgh’s largest Conservative congregation. With the move, Hillel Academy, wh...
UJF joins citywide recruiting effort for mentors
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Aug 06, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
In Jewish tradition, 11 and 12 are transitional ages, when children begin studying with adult tutors to prepare for their b’nai mitzvot and for the passage into Jewish adulthood. Those ages, it tur...
Jews in Antarctica
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Aug 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
Some vacations are good for a bit of relaxation, a little sightseeing and maybe a decent tan. Others can change your life. Mt. Lebanon-based Amazing Journeys aims to do just that. Under the direct...
Jason Lezak muds up in Dead Sea
Aug 01, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
U.S. Olympian swimmer Jason Lezak took four Maccabiah Gold medals, winning gold in every event in which he competed and setting a new Maccabiah record in the 50-meter freestyle of 22.19 seconds.