Calling all ages and abilities, join Congregation Beth Shalom for Come Together Schlep-A-Thon. Walk, or schlep, a single lap around the synagogue in a fundraiser guaranteed to warm your spirits. Earn the chance to win prizes by having people sponsor your walk. Staggered start times beginning at noon. For more information, visit bethshalompgh.org/cometogether.
Join Beth El Congregation of the South Hills for First Mondays with Rabbi Alex. This month, musician Seth Kibel will present Klezmer: American Music. 12 p.m. For more information and to register visit bethelcong.org.
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film "Beslaney: Memories" and engage in a post-film discussion with the film director Sara Tsifroni, producer Ancho Gosh and the film's researchers and protagonists Zouheir Takhaukho and Professor Yair Auron, in conversation with CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur. […]
Moishe House Pittsburgh is exploring different ways to practice Shabbat and rest at the end of each week. For the discussion Shabbat as Anti-Capitalist Practice, they will reflect on what it means to take a day off from striving in a capitalist society. 7 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/moishehouse.pittsburgh.
Beth El Congregation of the South Hills presents their Winter Speaker Series. For a complete list of speakers and topics, and to register, visit bethelcong.org/events.
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh on a virtual tour of United Hatzalah and learn how they are saving lives in Israel every day. United Hatzalah is an innovative and fast growing organization whose focus is getting emergency medical attention to people all over Israel. Learn about the Federation’s relationship with and support of […]
The first semester of the school year is coming to a close. For sophomores, juniors, and seniors, as well as entering freshmen/women the last months have been a unique and challenging time. Please join Temple Sinai and JFCS for College During the Pandemic: A Program for Students and Parents. The conversation will be facilitated by […]
Join Classrooms Without Borders in Israel — virtually. Monthly tours with guide and scholar Rabbi Jonty Blackman via Zoom. 7 p.m. For more information and to register, visit classroomswithoutborders.org.
Classrooms Without Borders in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage present "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust." Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Rūta Vanagaitė and Holocaust scholar Dr. Michael Berenbaum will discuss the role played by ordinary Lithuanians in collaborating with the Nazis during the Holocaust. 3 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/our-people
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s Education Outreach Associate, Emily Bernstein, interviews Dr. Joe Harmon, the 2018-19 Holocaust Educator of the Year award. Harmon teaches at Redbank Valley High School. 3 p.m. hcofpgh.org/events
What are you doing in June 2022? The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh hopes that you’ll be in Israel with them and hundreds of others from Pittsburgh’s Jewish community to experience a trip of a lifetime. To learn more, join Federation for a Zoom info session to learn more about the trip. Young adults are […]
Classrooms Without Borders presents Voices of Struggle: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X. Guest speaker Yusef Jonas analyzes how these powerful orators used language to galvanize and inspire activism. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
Join Temple Sinai and JFCS for Grandparenting During the Pandemic. They will share ideas for the best ways to interact with grandchildren on distance, thoughts for activities, and there will be an opportunity to share our experiences. The conversation will be led by Stefanie Small from JFCS and Rabbi Darryl Crystal from Temple Sinai. 7 […]
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation, the Maltz Museum of Jewish History and the University Pittsburgh Jewish Studies Program, is thrilled to bring together renowned artists and scholars for a very special event honoring Primo Levi's life and work through education and song. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org.
Join Repair the World for Street Art and Agitprops, a temporary public virtual art workshop with DS Kinsel from Boom Concepts. Learn about temporary public art, discover how to express your voice, and create small scale public art to display in your neighborhood. For more information click HERE.
Join Repair the World for Binds and Bonds: Processing Trauma with Art, a workshop with Dafna Rehavia an artist, a counselor, and an art psychotherapist. Learn about Dafna’s creative practice and take a visual tour of her new art installation on display at BOOM Concepts. Participate in a creative and reflective activity using objects and […]
Grief Workshop (Part 1): Creating Sacred Community will be the first event in a series led by community member Ami Weintraub. The goal of these workshops is to explore grief rituals within Judaism so participants can obtain tangible tools for dealing with the loss and grief we are experiencing as a society and as individuals. […]
The Zionist Organization of America: Pittsburgh is accepting applications for its Israel Scholarship Program. The scholarships are open to local Jewish teens in qualified programs, who will be a junior or senior in high school in September 2021. Three $1,000 scholarships will be awarded. Applicants will be judged on their involvement in Jewish organizations, volunteerism, […]
Join Classrooms Without Borders for Hear Our Voices: MLK Day of Learning with the Maltz Jewish Heritage Museum and The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a full day of events and virtual museum tours, open to all learners. 11 a.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for a fascinating webinar with Neil Lazarus as he discusses how to support Israel despite your views on its policies. 12 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event
Join Beth El Congregation of the South Hills for First Mondays with Rabbi Alex. This month will feature Shoshana Nambi, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Rabbinical student from Uganda. 12 p.m. For more information and to register visit bethelcong.org.
Classrooms Without Borders is excited to embark on their second Jewish Heritage Series with CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur and guest speakers. The communities covered include Britain, Turkey, Argentina, France, India and more. 2 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
Classrooms Without Borders presents a weekly book discussion of "Suzanne's Children" with Dr. Joshua Andy. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
The Jewish Pittsburgh History Series, sponsored by Rodef Shalom Congregation, will present Rodef Shalom Rabbis: J. Leonard Levy, Pacifist by Martha Berg, Rodef Shalom Archivist. Rabbi Levy served the congregation from 1901-1917, a period of historic growth. There is no charge to attend this Zoom event. 7 p.m. For details and to register, follow the […]
Join resident teaching artist Susan Stein for From Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates to explore and analyze literature created by African-American writers and thinkers. Read excerpts from well-known and lesser-known texts and use them to discuss the legacies of enslavement. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
Join Moishe House Pittsburgh to write a letter and brighten a friend's dark wither day. They’ll even provide stationery, envelopes, and stamps! How convenient. 7 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/moishehouse.pittsburgh.
Beth Shalom Congregation's Derekh Speaker Series welcomes five authors from across the country. Sarah Blake will kick off the series, discussing her latest novel Naamah, which retells the story of the great flood from the perspective of Noah's wife. 7:30 p.m. For more information, and to register for the Zoom event, visit bethshalompgh.org/speakerseries.
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for Is Israel and Zionism Still Relevant in 2021 to American Jews?, another fascinating webinar hosted by Neil Lazarus. 12 p.m. For more information, visit jewishpgh.org/event.
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film "Kishon" and engage in a post-film discussion with the film's producer, Arik Bernstein, and CWB scholar Avi Ben Hur. 3 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/kishon
Join the 10.27 Healing Partnership and Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife for Jewish Style R&R- Rachamim and Resilience. This series of weekly interactive workshops will be an opportunity to engage in a series of classes that will build on Jewish values, core concepts of resiliency, and mindfulness tools as a way of expanding our resiliency toolbox […]
Interested in learning more about a unique gap year program in Israel and Pittsburgh? While serving as a shinshinim you'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in Israeli life and culture, do tikkun olam in Karmiel Misgav, meet with other cohorts across the country, and more, all while have the experience of a lifetime. Open […]
Classrooms Without Borders invites you to attend Ghetto Fighter's House "Talking Memory" international online lecture series for a special program in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 60th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial: "Between Eichmann and Demjanjuk: Two Holocaust Trials in Israel" - A conversation with Prof. Hannah Yablonka and Dr. Tamir […]
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with the American Association of Teachers of German, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York City, and Germany Close Up, is honored to invite you to screen the short film "Masel Tov Cocktail" and join us for a post-screening discussion with the filmmaker Arkadij Khaet. […]
Beth El Congregation present Oy Joy Labs 2021: ’Chaim, L’Chaim -- To Life! Do you find yourself asking “Why?” and "How?" Are you eager to find a deeper meaning,?. Are you now the “go-to person” for family and extended family to be there for answers? Are you trying to put into words "the reasons and […]
Shaare Torah Congregation presents Virtually Hilarious with comedian Eli Lebowicz. $36 per screen. 8:30 p.m. RSVP at office@shaaretorah.net. Zoom link will be provided by email prior to event.
Classrooms Without Borders invites all educators to learn from acclaimed writer and Holocaust Survivor, Primo Levi. Levi was the author of several books, novels, short stories, essays and poems. classroomswithoutborders.org.
Classrooms Without Borders presents the first in their four part series, Ethical Implications of the Holocaust presented by Dr. Michael Berenbaum. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is proud to present a special, one-night program with Julie Kohner. Kohner will discuss her parents’ book, artifacts, and her mother's landmark appearance on "This Is Your Life." 7 p.m. hcofpgh.org/events
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for the virtual bus tour, "The Secret Jews of Majorca Island." The series will include Medieval Majorca, Crypto-Judaism, Chuetas, Rebirth & Renewal and Taste of Spain. 3 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/jewish-spain