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January 13, 2025

Right Now

Nechama Gorkin, right, enjoys a Chanukah party with local residents at Forward Shady Apartments. (Photo courtesy of Rabbi Yehuda Gorkin)

Introductions

Meet the Gorkins: Bringing Jewish joy to Squirrel Hill’s young and old

By Adam Reinherz

‘We have a wonderful community here and we want to continue to grow those connections’

A still from the restored black-and-white silent film “The City Without Jews”

Holocaust remembrance

A chilling silent film returns with live klezmer score on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Deborah Weisberg

The 1924 silent movie eerily predicted the rise of antisemitism in Eastern Europe

Not On Our Dime volunteers stand outside the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle attempting to gather signatures for a referendum that would force Pittsburgh to divest from Israel. (Photo by David Rullo)

Second bite of the apple

Anti-Israel activists renew BDS referendum initiative

By David Rullo

Not On Our Dime hopes to block the city of Pittsburgh from doing business with Israel

Kate Louik. (Photo courtesy of Kate Louik)

Getting to know

Getting to know: Kate Louik

By Adam Reinherz

A view of the Tree of Life synagogue, which housed three congregations, New Light, Dor Hadash and Tree of Life, photographed Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Squirrel Hill. (Alexandra Wimley/Union Progress)

Opinion

Marc A. Simon

Disconnected politicians

Joe Biden granting a commutation to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter would have been an extreme miscarriage of justice.

OpinionBiden’s commutation message: Some lives are worth more than others

By Marshall Dayan

OpinionThe difference between a sentence of death and life in prison

By Audrey N. Glickman

Members of the media stand outside of the federal courthouse on Grant Street, Downtown, Monday, April 24, 2023, ahead of the start of the federal death penalty trial for the man accused of killing 11 worshippers from three congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue building in 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Union Progress)

Changing justiceBiden commutes death sentences of 37 federal prisoners

By David Rullo

The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfires

Pasadena synagogue burns down as fires rage across Southern California

By Philissa Cramer

A Chabad in the Pacific Palisades evacuated abruptly amid a separate fire flaring there.

Thousands of Israeli protesters wave flags during a rally against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bills in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israeli politics

Israel’s judicial overhaul is back. So are the protests.

By Ben Sales

This time, a more limited proposal might pass.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2016. (Credit: U.N. Photo)

Politics

With more support from Dems, House passes bill to sanction Hague court

By Andrew Bernard

Rep. Tim Burchett: “These decisions by the ICC are reckless and they not only put Israel at risk, they put Americans at risk as well.”

Sen. John Fetterman speaks during the Shaare Torah Congregation annual dinner on March 31, 2024 (Photo courtesy of Shaare Torah Congregation)

Genocide‘Zero dopes’ protesting genocide in Sudan, Fetterman says

By JNS

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at a press briefing on Sept. 21, 2023 in New York. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)

United Nations

UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate, per UN Watch report

By JNS Staff

Terror groups “significantly influence the policies and practices of a U.N. agency with 30,000 employees, and a $1.5 billion annual budget,” per the report.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tells reporters on the sidelines of hte Jerusalem Post conference on June 16, 2019 that Israel will participate in the Bahrain economic peace summit. (Pool photo/Marc Israel Sellem via Flash90)

Israel at warIsraeli leaders threaten ‘war’ in the West Bank after terror attack

By Ben Sales

Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting near the village of al-Funduq, in the northern West Bank, Jan. 6, 2025. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Terrorism3 Israelis killed in West Bank terror attack

By Ben Sales

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 1: Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least 10 people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2025 in New Orleans, La. (Credit: Michael DeMocker/Getty Images via JNS)

OpinionIsrael must highlight the shared fight against terror

By Gerald Platt

Books

Join the Chronicle Book Club!

By Toby Tabachnick

“The Immortalists” by Chloe Benjamin

PollChronicle poll question

PollChronicle poll results: Will 2025 be better or worse than 2024?

By Toby Tabachnick

Profile

Righteous Among the Neighbors: Josiah Gilliam

By Greta Stern

Mt. Lebanon High School students interviewed non-Jewish Pittsburghers who support the Jewish community and take action to uproot antisemitism.

ProfileRighteous Among the Neighbors: Josh Andy

By Scarlet Sweeney

ProfileRighteous Among the Neighbors: Selina Shultz

By Abby Sohyda

Bill and Mardi Isler (Photo by Brian Cohen)

ProfileRighteous Among the Neighbors: Bill and Mardi Isler

By Natalie Morgan and Annabelle Thomas

Artist-in-residence

‘The Sparks Fly Upward’ comes to Temple Sinai

By David Rullo

“It’s an intricate work. It’s really an amazing work that’s very accessible at the same time.”

Darrin Friedman. (Photo courtesy of Darrin Friedman)

Theater

Play and playwright push men to befriend more men

By Adam Reinherz

‘Maybe we just don’t have it all together, and we need the support of friends’ — Darrin Friedman

Examples of some of the plants recovered from the Gesher Bnot Ya’akov percussive tools. From left to right: oak, yellow water lily, and common oat. (Hadar Ahituv/Yoel Melamed/Bar-Ilan University)

Archaeology

Early man ate carbs and processed food 780,000 years ago, northern Israel site shows

By Gavriel Fiske

Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted and crushed starches from acorns, cereals, legumes and aquatic plants

Food

Chickpea and lentil soup

By Jessica Grann

This soup is based on several traditional recipes from North Africa

Croissant French toast bake

By Jessica Grann

Savory spinach side

By Jessica Grann

Brie en croute

By Jessica Grann

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Menorah Lighting Festival

December 30, 2024 , 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Menorah Lighting Festival

Join Chabad of Squirrel Hill for lighting the Mitzvah Menorah and enjoy live music, a stilt walker, photo booth, donut decorating, and more. Free. 4 p.m. Corner of Beacon St. […]

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Chabad of the South Hills Annual Chanukah Festival

December 30, 2024 , 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Chabad of the South Hills Annual Chanukah Festival

Join Chabad of the South Hills for their annual Chanukah Festival featuring a grand menorah lighting, fire show, fire truck gelt drop, latkes, donuts, hot drinks, a photo booth, music […]

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December 31, 2024 , 9:15 am - 10:00 am

Monday Talmud Study

Join Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman in learning Masechet Rosh Hashanah, a tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar at Congregation Beth Shalom's […]

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Parashah Discussion: Life & Text

Bring the parashah alive and make it personally relevant and meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman in this weekly Parashah Discussion: Life & Text. 12:15 p.m. For more information, visit bethshalompgh.org/life-text.

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