Donate
About Us
About Us
Contact Us
Change My Address
Letters to the editor
Suggest a story
Advertise with us
Subscribe to Print
Subscribe to Print
Facebook
X (Twitter)
Instagram
Subscribe
Open Search form
Home
News
All
Local
National
World
Features
Opinion
Blogs
Life Cycle
All Celebrations
Births
B’nai Mitzvah
Weddings & Engagements
Other Celebrations
Obituaries
Submit a life cycle event
Calendar
Events
Submit an Event
Community
Community
Submit a photo
Newsletter
The Times of Israel
Atlanta
Atlanta Jewish Times
North New Jersey
The Jewish Standard
Pittsburgh
Jewish Chronicle
United Kingdom
The Jewish News
Australia
The Australian Jewish News
For Publishers
Become a Times of Israel Partner
search
history
All
(106)
Features
(82)
all headlines
(33)
local
(32)
May 27, 2025, 8:40 am
Proto-Reconstructionism in Pittsburgh
In the rudimentary days of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s revolution in the early 1920s, Pittsburgh appears to have flirted with some of his ideas.
By
Eric Lidji
May 19, 2025, 9:20 am
Mossad retrieves official Syrian Eli Cohen archive
The recovered archive includes approximately 2,500 documents, photographs and personal effects — most of which are being revealed to the public for the first time.
By
JNS Staff
May 11, 2025, 10:31 pm
The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over?
Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s 'Eminent Jews.'
By
Andrew Silow-Carroll
April 17, 2025, 12:05 pm
The name game
Western Pennsylvania has had a lot of synagogues over the years, and so many of the most popular names for synagogue have been reused here many times.
By
Eric Lidji
April 7, 2025, 3:28 pm
It would have been enough
Fireworks, Haggadot and charity
By
Tim Miller
March 20, 2025, 8:00 am
Exhibit of oldest Hebrew book opens at JTS library
“There is something magical about being in the presence of a historically significant object, the oldest Hebrew book ever discovered." — David Kraemer, director of the JTS Library
By
Vita Fellig
March 19, 2025, 4:22 pm
Upcoming exhibit details life’s work and ‘golden hands’ of local needlepointer
'This is a figure who was part of our community, and her work enriched the lives of so many synagogues and so many people who went to synagogues'
By
Adam Reinherz
March 17, 2025, 1:40 pm
Memories of Ahavath Achim remain strong but shul’s future is less certain
'We are at a point where we are realizing it’s not being used and starting to think about what might be next for it'
By
Adam Reinherz
March 13, 2025, 4:08 pm
UCLA professor will discuss book about Sephardic family history at Pitt
'I really like writing books where historical human dramas are the center of attention, and that is something I continue to pursue'
By
Adam Reinherz
March 9, 2025, 12:26 pm
‘The Dybbuk’ returns
In the last of a three-part series, “The Dybbuk” is revived locally on stage through three community theatre productions in 1984, 1993, and 2013.
By
Eric Lidji
March 7, 2025, 4:11 pm
A Purim primer
A barely-avoided genocide being celebrated with costumes and drunkenness and jokes is itself a kind of celebration of life
By
Tim Miller
March 6, 2025, 6:44 pm
Rare Gemilas Chesed manuscript listed for $9,500 on eBay sparks inquiry
Historic item appears online then disappears, leaving questions
By
Adam Reinherz
February 27, 2025, 9:49 am
‘The Dybbuk’ again and again
In the second of a three-part series, “The Dybbuk” returns to Pittsburgh again and again from the late 1920s to the early 1990s through theater and film.
By
Eric Lidji
February 23, 2025, 7:55 pm
A dybbuk comes to Pittsburgh
In the first of a three-part series, program from a 1927 production of “The Dybbuk” reveals a century-long tradition of Jewish theater in Pittsburgh
By
Eric Lidji
January 16, 2025, 9:01 am
The shul that wasn’t there
Stanton Heights was one of the fastest growing Jewish communities in Pittsburgh after World War II but never built institutions of its own.
By
Eric Lidji
Load More