Classrooms Without Borders presents their weekly book discussion. Join them as they explore Rebecca Donner's "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days," with Dr. Josh Andy. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/weekly-book-discussions-all-frequent-troubles-our-days-dr.-josh-andy
Join Classrooms Without Borders for The Ringelblum Archives: Virtual Tour and Teacher Training with Dr. Katarzyna Person and Helise Liebermanas They will explore the "Archive More Important Than Life" and prepare for a community wide Teach-In on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2022. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/the-ringelblum-archives-teacher-training-workshop-katarzyna-person-helise-lieberman
Join your favorite Moishe House Residents at Frick Park for a nature hike and to take fun winter headshots. Hot Chocolate and Hand Warmers will be available! RSVP at bit.ly/moho-010922 and they will email you final details before the event. 11 a.m.
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh over Zoom and learn more about the Mega Mission 2022. The mission will take place in Israel June 13-21, 2022. This is your chance to hear the details and ask all of your pressing questions. RSVP required to receive Zoom link. 6 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event/mega-mission-general-information-session
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for a Mega Mission Virtual Tour of Israel. Tour Guide Reuven Zusman will cover Israel’s importance for the main three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; interesting facts about Israel today; prospects and challenges for the future; and what is Pittsburgh’s connection with Israel. 7 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event/mega-mission-virtual-tour-5
Classrooms Without Borders presents the fourth session of Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Holocaust Studies. Wendy Lower will present "Using Photographs as Evidence." 3 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/confronting_the_complexity_of_holocaust_scholarship
Join Classrooms Without Borders for a post-film discussion of "In Search of My Sister" with Film Director: Jawad Mir, Sabrina Sohail: Executive Director of The Peace Project, and Serena Oberstein Executive Director of Jewish World Watch. 3 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/post-film-discussion-in-search-of-my-sister
Join Moise House for a Take Out Shabbat Dinner. Candles will be lit, socially distanced and masked up, and then take home a Shabbat meal to remember. RSVP at bit.ly/moho-011422 and they will be in touch with the final details via email. 6 p.m.
New Light Congregation welcomes Director of the Rauh Jewish History Program and Archives at the Heinz History Center Eric Lidji for a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. Lidji will discuss the interracial theatre group, "The Curtaineers." Services being at 9:30 a.m., lecture at 11:30 a.m. A kiddush celebrating Dr. King's birth and Tu […]
Join the Yeshiva Schools for an evening of cheese and wine and a live raffle drawing to benefit their arts and music program. 7:30 p.m. 403 Greenfield Ave. yeshivaschools.com/annual-raffle
Join Classrooms Without Borders and the Maltz Jewish Heritage Museum for Hear Our Voices: MLK Day of Learning, an all-day celebration including free museum admission, virtual family activities and special online programs. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org. classroomswithoutborders.org/january-17-2022-hear-our-voices-mlk-day-learning-maltz-jewish-heritage-museum
Join Cara Ciminillo, executive director of Trying Together and Anna Hartman, director of early childhood excellence at the Jewish United Fund and director of the Paradigm Project for a virtual discussion about how President Joe Biden's Build Back Better framework and what universal childhood education might mean for the Jewish community. 7 p.m. Free. jfedpgh.org/universal-education
Join Jewish National Fund-USA for a series of interviews, panel discussions and more – all meant to facilitate a dialogue and expose the beautiful and diverse facets of modern Zionism, and its positive impact on many aspects of our lives, no matter where we are on the globe. This episode features Scott Shay, a leading […]
The Squirrel Hill AARP meeting is open to all seniors, please, come and welcome the beginning of 2022 together. The meeting, in the Falk Library of Rodef Shalom, will feature Pittsburgh Police Zone Community Officer David Shifren, who will discuss home safety practices. All are welcome to learn precautions that would help safeguard yourself, family, […]
Classrooms Without Borders presents Using Holocaust films in the classroom, with Holocaust film scholar and author Rich Brownstein in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum. Explore the greatest narrative Holocaust film ever made while discovering the impact of Holocaust genre films. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/holocaust-cinema-complete-rich-brownstein
Stop by the Moishe House Porch to check in with one of a resident and pick up some craft supplies. From cross stitch to crochet supplies there will be a craft for everyone. RSVP at https://bit.ly/moho-011922 6 p.m.
Classrooms Without Borders, in coordination with Tali Nates, founder and d0irector of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Liberation 75 and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World, a new series highlighting different angles of complex […]
The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject […]
Classrooms Without Borders is honored to bring Rebecca Donner author of the book "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days" to their community of educators and learners. 4 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/author-talk-rebecca-donner-all-frequent-troubles-our-days
Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh as they commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The interfaith commemoration, co-sponsored by Duquesne University's Gumberg Library will feature speaker David Rosenberg who will present The Making of 'Who is a Jew?': A Tale of Two Cities and the Challenges of Bringing a Troubling Holocaust History Home." 6:30 p.m. duq.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aw1d17E5RbugyIO9ur8_zw
Join Moishe House Pittsburgh on Netflix Party to watch a movie together. Details and a link to connect will be sent out via email the day before. Goodie bags of snacks will be available on our porch as well the day before and day of. 7 p.m. RSVP at bit.ly/moho-012622.
Classrooms Without Borders invites all Holocaust educators to participate in a Tach In to celebrate Jewish spiritual resistance during Nazi occupation. RSVP to receive lesson plans, resources and a link to screen the film, "Who Will Write Our History" by Roberta Grossman. classroomswithoutborders.org/ringelblum-archives-teach-international-holocaust-day
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh as they come together with the Karmiel and Warsaw communities for “Zikaron BaSalon," (Remembrance in the Living Room), a special virtual event to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. 12 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event/zikaron-basalon-remembrance-in-the-living-room
Have you considered jumping onto the gig work bandwagon? Maybe the allure of flexible scheduling and being your own boss has appeal. Come to the National Council of Jewish Women's informative virtual panel discussion to learn the pros, cons, and hidden costs of this growing area of employment. Noon. ncjwpghevents.org/events/the-risks-and-rewards-of-gig-work
Join the National Council of Jewish Women for "The Changing Landscape of Abortion Rights," an open discussion with Greer Donley, JD from University of Pittsburgh School of Law, who will discuss the changing landscape on abortion rights. Donley is a reproductive justice scholar, whose work has covered abortion access in the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA’s […]
Join Moise House for a Take-Out Shabbat Dinner. Candles will be lit, socially distanced and masked up, and then take home a Shabbat meal to remember. 6 p.m. RSVP at bit.ly/moho-012822.
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle invites you to join the next Chronicle Book Club meeting. We will be discussing “The Lost Shtetl” by Max Gross, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 2020 and the Jewish Fiction Award. 12 p.m. To register, email David Rullo at drullo@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.
Join the National Council of Jewish Women, Congregation Dor Hadash and Congregation Beth Shalom Derekh virtually for "Jews, the First Amendment and Abortion Rights," a talk by Dr. Rachel Kranson. Kranson is the director of the Jewish studies program at the University of Pittsburgh and a scholar of modern Jewish history, American Judaism and gender […]