Week of Events
Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur
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 […]
Conversations on Zionism: Digital Media Warriors
Conversations on Zionism: Digital Media Warriors
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. 7:30 p.m. jewishnh.org/community-calendar/conversations-on-zionism-digital-media-warriors-1641330940
Online course: Answering Holocaust Questions
Online course: Answering Holocaust Questions
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Community Foundation present the 8-part online course Answering Holocaust Questions. In the course, Rabbi Danny Schiff will examine the questions asked of the rabbis about the darkest times and their responses. How did the rabbis advise people to conduct themselves in the midst of those years of […]
Czech Embassy Series: Stories from the Middle East with Journalist Jakub Szántó
Czech Embassy Series: Stories from the Middle East with Journalist Jakub Szántó
Classrooms Without Borders presents Czech Embassy Series: Stories from the Middle East with Journalist Jakub Szántó. Szántó, spent years covering the region. He later published the book "Behind the Curtain of War," which describes his eyewitness accounts from the front lines. In his talk, he will take viewers “behind the scenes” of wartime reporting. 3 […]
Jewish Disability Advocacy Day: Opening Ceremony on Breaking Down Barriers
Jewish Disability Advocacy Day: Opening Ceremony on Breaking Down Barriers
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day: Opening Ceremony on Breaking Down Barriers. ome together virtually with diverse communities across North America to break down barriers to opportunity and inclusion. Help advance policies that will empower millions of individuals with disabilities to lead more independent and fulfilling lives. 7 p.m. […]
Classrooms Without Borders, in coordination with Tali Nates, founder and sirector 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 present the series Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World innovative Museums and Memorial. 1 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/holocaust_museums_and_memorials_around_the_world
Jewish Disability Advocacy Day
Jewish Disability Advocacy Day
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day. Hear from members of congress, disability advocacy champions and experts. Learn about promoting legislation and get the tools and coaching to advocate for disability events in real time. 1 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event/jewish-disability-advocacy-day
Shabbat Dinner with Moise House
Shabbat Dinner with Moise House
Join Moishe House for a take-out Shabbat dinner. They will be lighting candles socially distanced and masked up and then you will take home a shabbat meal to remember. 6 p.m. RSVP at bit.ly/moho-020422.
Musician in residence weekend at Temple Emanuel of South Hills
Musician in residence weekend at Temple Emanuel of South Hills
Temple Emanuel presents Jewish music innovators Elana Jagoda and Saul Kaye during Friday Shabbat services and for a special Havdalah and concert. Both events start at 7 p.m. Registration required for Saturday night concert. templeemanuelpgh.org/event/jagoda
Winter Speaker Series at Beth El
Winter Speaker Series at Beth El
Join Beth El Congregation of the South Hills for their Winter Speaker series. For a complete list of speakers and times, visit bethelcong.org/events
Classrooms Without Borders and The Ghetto Fighters' House invite you to History, Archeology and Memory: The 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Death Camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. 2 p.m. classroomswithoutborders.org/history-archeology-memory-80th-anniversary-establishment-death-camps-belzec-sobibor-treblinka