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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.
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Eric Lidji
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.
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Eric Lidji
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.
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Eric Lidji
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.
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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
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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.
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Eric Lidji
December 19, 2024, 10:33 am
Who made the scroll in Noah’s Ark?
The beloved Kennywood Park amusement ride features a scroll with Hebrew text. Using the available records, is it possible to determine who made it?
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Eric Lidji
November 17, 2024, 8:05 pm
The brief, consequential Jewish history of 200 Ross St.
The 11th floor of the historic downtown office building played an important role in the development of Jewish communal affairs in the 1950s.
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Eric Lidji
October 28, 2024, 11:36 am
Rabbi Walter Jacob dies at 94
The long-serving rabbi of Rodef Shalom Congregation leaves behind a global legacy of scholarship and kindness.
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Eric Lidji
October 16, 2024, 11:51 am
The Colfax Plan
Eighty years ago, the principal of Colfax implemented a new idea for educating gifted students.
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Eric Lidji
September 23, 2024, 9:24 am
A firsthand view of war
Pittsburgh learned about the Yom Kippur War from a handful of Pittsburghers — including a small group of passionate teenagers and 20-somethings.
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Eric Lidji
August 26, 2024, 9:11 am
Going west
The Pennsylvania Canal and the founding of a Jewish community.
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Eric Lidji
July 22, 2024, 2:08 pm
Ida (Chaya Sara) Cohen Selavan Schwarcz, z”l
Through a long and expansive career, Schwarcz built a foundation of scholarship that continues to shape our knowledge about the Jewish history of Western Pennsylvania.
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Eric Lidji
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.
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Eric Lidji
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.
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Eric Lidji
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