Week of Events
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be at the Heritage Discovery Center in Johnstown. The exhibition examines how the Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and ultimately, genocide. Admission […]
Caregiver’s Aging Mastery Program
title: Caregiver's Aging Mastery Program description: Caregivers Aging Mastery Program March 6-April 17 Wednesdays • 1-2:30 PM 7 Sessions The Second Floor Meeting Room - Robinson Building This program is not only for caregiver’s it is for everyone who wants to learn more about the need to care for the caregiver - you by focusing […]
Annual JFilm Festival
THURSDAY, MARCH 7-SUNDAY, MARCH 17 Film Pittsburgh announces the full lineup for the 26th Annual JFilm Festival — 11 days of international Jewish-themed films, guest speakers, and visiting filmmakers. This year, the Festival returns to SouthSide Works Cinema. The lineup features 21 narrative and documentary films from 11 countries, all of which are Pittsburgh premieres […]
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law librarian Linda Tashbook, author of “Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law” (Oxford University Press, 2018), will hold a discussion at 4:30 p.m. on March 6 in the Alcoa Room of the Pitt School of Law, 3900 Forbes Ave., second floor. The talk is free and open to […]
New Community Chevra Kadisha of Greater Pittsburgh annual dinner
New Community Chevra Kadisha of Greater Pittsburgh annual dinner
The New Community Chevra Kadisha of Greater Pittsburgh will hold its 14th annual Adar 7 dinner on Sunday, March 10. The kosher dinner will be held at Temple Sinai. San Francisco artist Rabbi Me'irah Iliinsky will present her illustrated book, Mapping the Journey:The Mourner and the Soul. A commemoration to honor the memory of Jerry […]
“Out of the Shadows and into the Heart,”
“Out of the Shadows and into the Heart,”
“Out of the Shadows and into the Heart,” what Chevra Kadisha can mean to you, with remarks by Dan Leger, Stefanie Small and Rabbi Daniel Wasserman will be held at 10 a.m. at the Jewish Community Center, Levinson Hall.
Bagel Bites: Sunday Brunch
Bagel Bites: Sunday Brunch
Bagel Bites: Sunday Brunch description: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Foundation Scholar Rabbi Danny Schiff will speak at Temple Emanuel of South Hills on Sunday, March 10 at 10:30 a.m. as part of the "Bagel Bites: Sunday Brunch Series." FREE and open to the community. RSVP: http://www.templeemanuelpgh.org/event/bagel-bites-brunch/ start-date: 2019-03-10 start time: 10:30 AM end date: […]
Kids’ Hamantash Bake
Kids’ Hamantash Bake
title: Kids' Hamantash Bake description: On Sunday, March 10, children ages 3-12 are invited to an afternoon of pre-Purim fun, from 1-2:15pm at Chabad of Squirrel Hill, 1700 Beechwood Boulevard. Children will bake festive hamantashen to take home and to donate and will enjoy a special ventriloquist/puppet show following the baking activity. The cost is […]
Jonty Blackman lecture on European Jews
Jonty Blackman lecture on European Jews
Jonty Blackman (Photo courtesy of Classrooms Without Borders)Jonty Blackman Lecture on European Jews description: Join CWB for an open Poland Seminar Meeting and ALL Poland Seminars get-together! Scholar Jonty Blackman will lecture about Polish and Lithuanian Jewry before the War Food/light refreshments will be served. Open to the public with reservation. Please RSVP: https://classroomswithoutborders.org/events/rsvp.php?222 start-date: […]