From: <jmarkiz@bethshalompgh.org> title: Derekh Open Beit Midrash: The Miracle description: What: The second session of the Derekh Open Beit Midrash! When: 7:30pm on December 13th Where: Zweig Library at Congregation Beth Shalom This month's session will explore some rabbinic texts on Hanukkah. Come and join the monthly session, study with a partner, or start your […]
title: LECTURE: WHEN YIDDISH WAS YOUNG BY PROFESSOR JUSTIN CAMMY description: LECTURE: WHEN YIDDISH WAS YOUNG On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 10 a.m., three of Pittsburgh’s Jewish organizations are jointly sponsoring a lecture by Professor Justin Cammy titled “When Yiddish Was Young.” Congregation Dor Hadash, Congregation Beth Shalom’s new program, Derekh and the University […]
title: Derekh Speaker Series -- Elisha Waldman description: A series of talks by authors from across the country made available through the Jewish Book Council. The second author is Dr. Elisha Waldman and his book This Narrow Space, a memoir by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem treating children of all […]
title: Derekh Speaker Series -- Samantha Baskind description: A series of talks by authors from across the country made available through the Jewish Book Council. The third event is art history professor Samantha Baskind and her book The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture, a study of how life in the ghetto and the […]
title: Derekh Speaker Series -- Jonathan Weisman description: A series of talks by authors from across the country made available through the Jewish Book Council. The final author of the 2018-19 series is New York Times journalist Jonathan Weisman and his book (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump. There will be […]