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December 2017
Chanukah Congregational Dinner & Menorah Lighting
Chanukah Congregational Dinner & Menorah Lighting description: Join us for a festive Chanukah Shabbat. Bring your family Chanukiot (Chanukah menorahs), and we’ll light them at the beginning of dinner. Chef Drew and a small crew of volunteers will make us a dinner of latkes, soup, and salad! Cost: $10/person ($5 for children 10 & under) Stay for our Shabbat Hanukkah Evening Service at 7 PM. We'll celebrate a festive Shabbat Chanukah Service with family and friends, the Intergenerational Choir, and…
Find out more »January 2018
Mostly Musical Shabbat: A Sensory Friendly Experience
title: Mostly Musical Shabbat: A Sensory Friendly Experience description: Join Rabbi Jamie Gibson, Rabbi Keren Gorban, Cantor Laura Berman and the Temple Sinai Band for Mostly Musical Shabbat the First Friday of every month. The music is informal and lively. Come prepared to sing along, and maybe even dance a bit. ALL ARE WELCOME! STAY AFTER THE SERVICE FOR A SWEET TREAT! The Sensory Friendly Service features: • The Temple Sinai Band • Singing and dancing • Visual tefillah so…
Find out more »The Voyage of the Saint Louis
From: title: The Voyage of the Saint Louis description: Join Beth El Congregation of the South Hills on Sunday, January 7, 2018 for a special viewing of the film The Voyage of the Saint Louis, a dramatic documentary based on the true events of 1939. This evening begins with a wine and cheese reception at 7pm and will conclude with a short Q&A discussion led by Rabbi Alex Greenbaum. This program is presented by Beth El's Adult Ed. Committee. Please…
Find out more »First Mondays with Judge Blaise La Rotonda
title: First Mondays with Judge Blaise La Rotonda description: Join us at Beth El for lunch with lecture on Frauds, Cons and Scams and How to Protect Oneself From Being a Victim, presented by Magisterial District Judge Blaise La Rotonda and Corporal Michael Smakosz (Mt. Lebanon Police Dept./ Crime Prevention Unit Supervisor). Lunch begins at 11:30am and the lecture starts at 12:00pm. Call 412-561-1168 to RSVP in advance. start-date: 2018-01-08 start time: 11:30 AM end date: 2018-01-08 end time: 1:00…
Find out more »WoTS Cooking Class
title: WoTS Cooking Class description: The Women of Temple Sinai invite you to Super Dinner for Friends to Warm Up A Winter Night: Super Easy, Super Delicious and Super Inexpensive with Annie Weidman. Anyone age 16 and older is welcome! The cost for this class is $10. RSVP by Friday, Jan. 5. Visit our website for details. https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/event/wots-cooking-class/ start-date: 2018-01-08 start time: 6:30 PM end date: 2018-01-08 end time: all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: 5505 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh,…
Find out more »MLK Shabbat Service
From: title: MLK Shabbat Service description: Pastor Cheryl Jones Ross of Greater Hope Restoration Ministries will speak during Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Emanuel of South Hills on Saturday, January 13 at 10:30 AM. Pastor Ross will speak on Dr. Martin Luther King's Legacy and its message to American Jews. All are welcome to attend. start-date: 2018-01-13 start time: 10:30 AM end date: 2018-01-13 end time: all-day event: recurring event: No event address: 1250 Bower Hill Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15243…
Find out more »Rescuing Jews in Need through Clandestine Aliyah Efforts
Rescuing Jews in Need through Clandestine Aliyah Efforts Featuring Arielle Di-Porto Director, Aliyah Division at the Jewish Agency for Israel January 18, 2018 7:00 – 9:00 PM Rodef Shalom 4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh 15213 Free Event • Dessert & Wine Reception • Dietary Laws Observed Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Lion of Judah Society and Shofar Society Thank-You Event Join Arielle Di-Porto, Director of the Aliyah Division at the Jewish Agency for Israel as she speaks about critical, often clandestine…
Find out more »Tot Shabbat
title: Tot Shabbat description: Enjoy snacks and schmoozing with other parents of young ones, then a half hour of song and dance for the whole family! Learn the Shabbat prayers and stories together. Do you like to sing and dance? Do you want to get the Shabbat feeling? Are you looking for an informal, inviting way to teach your little ones about Shabbat and connect with other families? Join us for this exciting Children's Service. We will begin with snacks…
Find out more »Community Potluck Dinner
title: Community Potluck Dinner description: Community Potluck Dinner We’ll provide a delicious entrée prepared by Chef Drew. Please bring a non-dairy side dish, salad, or dessert (enough for 8–10 people). The Baked Blueberry Chutney Chicken entrée is from Tina Wasserman’s book Entrée to Judaism and can be found at www.cookingandmore.com. Stay for our Shabbat Evening Service with Birthday Blessing at 7 PM followed by an oneg. Cost: $5 (To register, contact Judy Lynn Aiello at 412-421-9715 ext. 124 or judylynn@templesinaipgh.org.)…
Find out more »Young Adult Shabbat After Hours
title: Young Adult Shabbat After Hours description: Wine & cheese mix and mingle with young adults (ages 21-45) following services. start-date: 2018-01-19 start time: 8:30 PM end date: 2018-01-19 end time: all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: 5505 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 event organizer: Temple Sinai event website: https://www.templesinaipgh.org/shabbat-after-hours-5 event cost: No charge
Find out more »WHEN YIDDISH WAS YOUNG
title: LECTURE: WHEN YIDDISH WAS YOUNG BY PROFESSOR JUSTIN CAMMY description: LECTURE: WHEN YIDDISH WAS YOUNG On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 10 a.m., three of Pittsburgh’s Jewish organizations are jointly sponsoring a lecture by Professor Justin Cammy titled “When Yiddish Was Young.” Congregation Dor Hadash, Congregation Beth Shalom’s new program, Derekh and the University of Pittsburgh’s Jewish Studies Program welcome the community to this special event. Professor Cammy, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and of Comparative Literature at Smith…
Find out more »Women’s Ways of Negotiation in the Hebrew Bible
title: Beth El's Adult Ed. Speaker Series description: Join Beth El Congregation for the first of six thought-provoking evenings with various guest speakers presenting topics of Jewish interest. On January 22, Dr. Beth Kissileff, editor, author and freelance journalist will be presenting Tricksters, Thieves & Disguisers: Women’s Ways of Negotiation in the Hebrew Bible. Each evening begins with a Wine and Cheese Reception at 7pm, followed by the talk. RSVP in advance online at bethelcong.org or call 412-561-1168. Open to…
Find out more »Tu Bishavat Seder at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha
title: Tu B'Shevat Seder at Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha description: Join Rabbi Myers of Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha for the Tu B'Shevat Seder. Sample great foods from Israel! $5 per person. Children are free. start-date: 2018-01-28 start time: 10:00 AM end date: 2018-01-28 end time: 11:30 AM all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: 5898 Wilkins Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 event organizer: Alex Speck event website: event cost: $5 From: <aspeck88@yahoo.com>
Find out more »February 2018
Tu B’Shevat and Global Warming
Beth El Congregation’s Adult Education Speaker Series will present Rabbi Ron Symons, senior director of Jewish Life at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, on Back in the Garden: Tu B'Shevat and Global Warming from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 1900 Cochran Road. The talk follows a wine and cheese reception. RSVP in advance at bethelcong.org or call 412-561-1168. The program is free and open to the community.
Find out more »Young Family Shabbat
Temple David will hold a young family interactive and musical Shabbat service at 6 p.m. on the bimah followed be a picnic dinner. There is no charge. All families with children under age 10 are welcome on the bimah; children of all ages in the family are invited. RSVP no later than noon, Monday, Jan. 29 at rachaelf@templedavid.org. start-date: 2018-02-02 start time: 6:00 p.m. end date: 2018-02-02 end time: 7:30 p.m. all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Temple David…
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