Week of Events
The Jewish Text Puzzle
The Jewish Text Puzzle
We Jews have an array of texts and making sense of them is not easy. In the six-part series "The Jewish Text Puzzle," Rabbi Danny Schiff will put the pieces of the “text puzzle” into one coherent picture, so that the place of Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, Responsa, Kabbalah, as well as many other sources, […]
America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
Classrooms Without Borders presents America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. April's session will examine Hollywood, Nazism, and the Nazis. Free. 4 p.m. cwbpgh.org/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-3/?mc_cid=5fef88abd5&mc_eid=300cbb1627
Rodef Shalom Family Shabbat
Rodef Shalom Family Shabbat
Welcome Shabbat with family and friends, music and prayer at Rodef Shalom Congregation's Family Shabbat. Join together for a Shabbat Dinner and a Kabbalat Shabbat song session and service specially designed for families and kids of all ages. End the night with a sweet dessert. Dinner is $5 per person with a maximum of $25 […]
Prime Stage Theatre presents Perseverance
Prime Stage Theatre presents Perseverance
Prime Stage Theatre presents the world premiere of Perseverance, a powerful memoir of healing and renewal. Few visitors to the G&S Jewelry Store in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood during the 1960s and ’70s were aware that the cheerful proprietor, Melvin Goldman, had spent his teens enduring the horrors of Auschwitz before arriving as a penniless […]
JGS Pittsburgh Presents: When Henry Silverstein Got Cold
JGS Pittsburgh Presents: When Henry Silverstein Got Cold
The Jewish Genealogy Society Pittsburgh Presents "When Henry Silverstein Got Cold. How Terrible Enumerators Help Us Do Better Census Research with Tammy Hepps” is a collaboration between the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center. Please register online. The program is free for JGS-Pittsburgh members as well […]
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh for an exciting Partnership2Gether online event that brings together people from different Jewish communities for a joint live and thought-provoking discussion, based on a prize-winning short Israeli film "Pinhas: Families" 1 p.m. jewishpgh.org/event/film-club
Becoming Visible: Ethiopian Jews and the Formation of Black Identity in Israel
Becoming Visible: Ethiopian Jews and the Formation of Black Identity in Israel
Scholar and activist Dr. Shula Mola, named one of Israel's 50 most influential women in 2022 by "Globes" newspaper, will deliver the annual lecture of the Israel Heritage Nationality Room and the University of Pittsburgh's Jewish studies program. The title of her talk is Becoming Visible: Ethiopian Jews and the Formation of Black Identity in […]
The Beauty That Still Remains
The Beauty That Still Remains
The Pittsburgh Girls’ Choir and Congregation Beth Shalom's Derekh program proudly present "The Beauty That Still Remains," a concert of hope and reflection through song in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. PGC Chamber Choir will sing Linda Tutas Haugen's powerful piece featuring words directly from Anne Frank's immortal diary. Rounding out the evening's program in […]
The Beauty That Still Remains
The Beauty That Still Remains
The Pittsburgh Girls Choir and Congregation Beth Shalom's Derekh program proudly present “The Beauty That Still Remains,” a concert of hope and reflection through song in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. PGC Chamber Choir will sing Linda Tutas Haugen's powerful piece, Anne Frank: A Living Voice, featuring words directly from Anne Frank's immortal diary. Rounding […]