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Ben Pinkston prays at Masada National Park in Israel. (Photo courtesy of Jackie Braslawsce)
August 23, 2024, 11:42 am
Squirrel Hill teen visits Poland and Israel with Chabad
After three weeks of traveling and learning, Ben Pinkston returned to Pittsburgh with new friends and insights
By Adam Reinherz
Local day school leaders Casey Weiss, Rabbi Sam Weinberg and Rabbi Yossi Rosenblum gather outside Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh on Aug. 21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Casey Weiss)
August 22, 2024, 10:06 am
Three institutions, three alumni, one purpose at Pittsburgh’s Jewish day schools
'It’s a beautiful thing that we all work together and a testament to who we are as a community'
By Adam Reinherz
Isaac Nadoff. (Photo courtesy of Isaac Nadoff)
July 26, 2024, 11:33 am
Isaac Nadoff could return to Pittsburgh from Israel and be a paramedic: ‘Naah’
'For me, it’s a moral obligation to stay'
By Adam Reinherz
IDF soldiers participate in a Running with Zisser event in Jezreel Valley. (Photo courtesy of Karen Gal-Or)
July 25, 2024, 12:12 pm
Local run pays tribute to fallen IDF soldier Maj. Ilay Zisser
War in Israel affects millions, Running with Zisser is chance to know one
By Adam Reinherz
Community members listen and demonstrate on July 14. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
July 15, 2024, 1:16 pm
Nine months after hostages taken to Gaza, Pittsburghers keep demanding to ‘Bring Them Home’
Sundays in Squirrel Hill continue attracting demonstrators who say they won't stop until every hostage is returned
By Adam Reinherz
The 2000 block of Murray, showing Pinsker’s, M. Fogel Meats, Murray News Stand, Stern’s Café, and Kablin’s Market— Nov. 3, 1965. (Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, Detre Library & Archives)
June 6, 2024, 1:02 pm
Squirrel Hill gets parking garages
In the third of a three-part series, the city tries to accommodate a huge influx of traffic without upsetting the delicate balance between residents and businesses.
By Eric Lidji
Workers painting a storefront in the 2100 block of Murray Avenue, just up from the corner of Murray and Douglas, June 25, 1951 (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections)
June 4, 2024, 7:51 pm
Squirrel Hill gets parking lots
In the second of a three-part series, the city negotiates the construction of the first parking lots in Squirrel Hill. Giant Eagle works on building a third.
By Eric Lidji
Shoppers on Murray Avenue facing north toward Bartlett Street, near the current Giant Eagle, July 10, 1947. The city metered the street in 1940. (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections)
May 24, 2024, 8:24 am
Squirrel Hill gets parking meters
In the first of a three-part series, Squirrel Hill business owners ask for meters to bring order to the commercial district. Fights ensue.
By Eric Lidji
Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel speaks during an Aleph Institute event. (Photo courtesy of Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel)
May 16, 2024, 11:25 am
Aleph Institute symposium highlights compassion for the incarcerated
Program is reminder that people need a ‘Second Chance’
By Adam Reinherz
Zoje Stage (Photo by Gabrianna Dacko courtesy of Rachel Gul)
May 6, 2024, 5:48 pm
Old characters, new terror, creep into Zoje Stage’s ‘Dear Hanna’
Novelist's latest work delivers pleasingly terrifying reminders
By Adam Reinherz
A Hebrew Bible from the 1500s. (Photo by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives via Flickr at https://rb.gy/o33td2)
May 1, 2024, 9:08 am
Celebrated scholar coming to Squirrel Hill for community-building Shabbaton
'Invite opposing viewpoints, consider them, respond to them, and learn how to speak and how to listen'
By Adam Reinherz
Building friendship and creating change in Squirrel Hill. (Photos courtesy of Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh)
April 26, 2024, 5:16 pm
L’chaim and L’Friendship Circle
Organization celebrates 18 years of inclusion by looking ahead
By Adam Reinherz
Lid of cup served to Hebrew speakers by employee of 61C on April 17. The employee is now on a leave of absence. (Courtesy photo)
April 19, 2024, 1:42 pm
Local coffee shop takes steps to make amends for antisemitic act of barista
Squirrel Hill proprietors "deeply apologize" for incident
By Toby Tabacnick
Lauren Noorparvar, Elan Noorparvar, Sen. John Fetterman and Rabbi Yitzi Genack on March 31. (Photo courtesy of Shaare Torah Congregation)
April 4, 2024, 1:23 pm
Babka, body doubles and Fetterman among surprises at Shaare Torah’s annual dinner
Sunday evening event delivers 'embarrassment of riches'
By Adam Reinherz
Benjamin Schwartz sits inside his studio. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
February 26, 2024, 12:50 pm
Blind painter finds his way with partnership and creation
'Benny Blindspots' needed years to perceive life in a new way; now that he does, he can’t unsee it.
By Adam Reinherz
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