Understanding Adolescent Challenges When Religion and Mental Health Collide description: Making sure our children are mentally healthy is always a priority for parents. We want to see them flourish, and good mental health is an important component for consistent growth. What do we do as parents when we see our kids struggling with their mental […]

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS MAY 30 Nominations are open for the 2020 Shore-Whitehill Award. The Shore-Whitehill Award, created in 1996, is named for Robert Whitehill and the late Barbara Shore and celebrates volunteers who promote inclusion of people with disabilities in the fabric of Jewish life through advocacy or direct service to individuals and families. Organizations […]

title: Cooking Carnival description: The Jewish Kids Club invites all junior chefs to the carnival grand finale . Participate in all -you-need for Shavuot carnival stations including flower arrangement, cheesecake, Mt. Sinai cupcakes, and photo magnets. Open to all kids regardless of previous participation. Register at chabadsh.com/jkc mussie@chabadsh.com for more information. start-date: 2019-05-30 start time: […]

title: Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Made Local Author Presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures description: The Organs of Sense is an intricate nested fable equating our inability to truly understand the world with our inability to understand our own messy families. In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: […]

Author Talk description: Pittsburgh native, Barbara Morris Stock, will discuss her novel, "Anything is Possible: A Child's Journey to America and Hope." Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old child, this historical fiction is based on the story of the author's family who emigrated to the States from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. The […]

title: The Butterfly Storytelling: Wandering and Wondering description: Based on the style of the The Moth, a popular themed storytelling event, LGBTQ+ Jews and Allies will share stories about their lives. All are welcome! Have an LGBTQ+ story you want to share? Contact Kate Passarelli at klpassarelli@verizon.net by Friday, May 12. start-date: 2019-05-31 start time: […]

Community members Elan and Naomi are getting hitched! Bring on the wedding celebrations part 2, 'burgh style! Hosted by Moishe House Pittsburgh Meet us in the park with food or drinks to share. Exact location TBD pending weather forecast. Sheva Brachot are seven Hebrew blessings that are traditionally recited by loved ones to offer blessings […]

Pride Seder description: The Pride Tribe and Women of Temple Sinai (WoTS) are partnering to present the annual Pride Seder, which will take a form reminiscent of the traditional Passover seder, but will share stories and hardships of LGBTQ life, celebrate the freedoms that have been achieved, and explore freedoms not yet gained. We welcome […]

Poale Zedeck will hold a Yom Yerushalaim Brunch at 9:30 a.m. in the Schwartz Social Hall with guest speaker Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, a dynamic educator in the Los Angeles community who has been on the faculty of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the prestigious YU High Schools of Los Angeles. He is also a former […]

Walk to Remember description: On Sunday, June 2, Community Day School (CDS) will present the 3rd annual WALK TO REMEMBER. This event invites members of the public to meet Holocaust survivors in our community and be inspired firsthand by their courage, bravery, and strength, and hope. Participants walk the perimeter around CDS six times to […]

Shavuot Holiday Family Camp Sunday, June 2 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Shalom Pittsburgh, PJ Library and JCC Camp 365 invite you to Shavuot Holiday Family Camp at the Frick Environmental Center. Explore the outdoors and the holiday of Shavuot with a PJ Library story hike to Mt. Sinai, bug hunt with Frick Environmental […]

PZ Yom Yerushalaim Brunch We are excited to welcome Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom as a guest speaker at PZ for a Yom Yerushalaim brunch on Sunday June 2nd at 10:30 am in the Schwartz Social Hall. Rabbi Etshalom is a dynamic exciting educator in the Los Angeles community who has been on the faculty of the […]

Author talk description: Native Pittsburgh, Barbara Morris Stock, will discuss her novel, "Anything is Possible: A Child's Journey to America and Hope." Told through the eyes of a 10-year-old child, this historical fiction novel is based on the story of the author's family who immigrated to the States from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. […]

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Welcoming Refugees in Pittburgh How can we help refugees in Pittsburgh feel welcomed? Working with representatives of Pittsburgh’s diverse communities, Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) address the issues and needs of immigrants who seek to make Pittsburgh their home. Join us to hear from a panel featuring Monica Ruiz of […]

title: Book signing description: Native Pittsburgh, Barbara Morris Stock, will sign her novel, "Anything is Possible: A Child's Journey to America and Hope." Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old child, this historical fiction novel is based on the story of the author's family who immigrated to the States from Eastern Europe in the early […]