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May 2018
“Harry Potter & the Sacred Text” Podcast
title: Live Show: "Harry Potter & the Sacred Text" Podcast description: Join hosts of the popular podcast, "Harry Potter & the Sacred Text" for a live show in Pittsburgh, PA! Harvard Divinity graduates, Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile, will deep dive into a chapter of Harry Potter, tell stories from their own lives, and try-out a medieval religious reading practice with this modern day classic. Tickets are $22 – $30 and available at www.rodefshalom.org/rsvp start-date: 2018-05-17 start time: 7…
Find out more »Rabbi Danny Schiff to speak at Temple Emanuel
title: Rabbi Danny Schiff to speak at Temple Emanuel description: Rabbi Danny Schiff presents “American Jews and Reform Congregations: Assessing and Meeting the Challenges Ahead,” on Friday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. during Temple Emanuel's Shabbat Evening Service. All are welcome to attend the wine & cheese pre-oneg at 5:45 PM followed by the service at 6:30 PM. start-date: 2018-05-18 start time: 06:30 PM end date: 2018-05-18 end time: all-day event: recurring event: ---
Find out more »Memorial Day Bagel Brunch
title: Memorial Day Bagel Brunch description: Temple Emanuel will hold its annual “start the summer off right” Memorial Day Bagel Brunch coordinated by the TERMS (Temple Emanuel Retirees in Mitzvah Service) volunteers. Bring the family for a relaxing morning with good food, good friends and fun. Bagels, fruit, hard-boiled eggs, sweets, coffee, juice and more! Rain or shine, the event will be held at the Pavilion at Boyce Mayview Park, behind the Upper St. Clair Community and Recreation Center. The…
Find out more »June 2018
Temple David Musical Young Shabbat
Temple David will conduct a musical Young Shabbat service on Friday June 1st at 6:00 p.m. Weather permitting the service will be held in the outdoor sanctuary. A picnic dinner with crafts will follow. Menu consists of pasta with sides and a beverage. Bring you picnic blanket. Cost is $3.00 for children and $5.00 for grown ups, with a $15.00 max per family. The Shabbat Program is open to ALL families with children under 10. Children of all ages are…
Find out more »Pride Shabbat
title: Pride Shabbat 2018 description: All are welcome at the 4th annual Pride Shabbat. This year we welcome Jessica Hammer as she leads a text study in honor of Pride Month. Come learn more about queer Jews, share your perspective on queer Judaism, and explore the diversity of our tradition. Jessica Hammer is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed to the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Entertainment Technology, Center. She studies how games can change…
Find out more »Bereavment Group
title: Bereavement Group description: Temple Emanuel hosts a monthly bereavement group for previous and newly bereaved adults, led by licensed clinicial social workers. The next meeting will take place on Sunday, June 3 at 10 AM at Temple. RSVP to leonsteineresa@verizon.net if you plan to attend. Contact Temple at 412-279-7600 with questions. start-date: 2018-06-03 start time: 10:00 AM end date: 2018-06-03 end time: all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: 1250 Bower Hill Rd. www.templeemanuelpgh.org event organizer: Leslie Hoffman event…
Find out more »Bet Tikvah 30th Anniversary Celebration
title: 30th Anniversary Celebration description: Please join us for wine and dessert as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of Bet Tikvah. start-date: 2018-06-03 start time: 1-3 pm end date: end time: all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Jewish Community Center event organizer: Congregation Bet Tikvah event website: http://bettikvah.org event cost: free
Find out more »An Evening of Celebration
title: An Evening of Celebration description: Temple Emanuel will hold An Evening of Celebration Gala on Sunday June 3 at 6PM to honor Rabbi Mark Joel Mahler upon his retirement after 38 years of dedicated service to Temple Emanuel and the community. This special evening will include dinner and entertainment. Proceeds benefit the Rabbi Mark Mahler Rabbinic Chair Fund. Tickets are $100 per person. Gold, Silver and Patron level sponsorships opportunities are also available. RSVPs are needed by May 1,…
Find out more »First Mondays with Rabbi Alex and Guest Carleton Young
title: First Mondays with Rabbi Alex and Guest Carleton Young description: Beth El Congregation hosts its monthly First Mondays program with Rabbi Alex Greenbaum from 11:30 a.m. to 1pm, featuring author/teacher Carleton Young who will be discussing his book Voices From the Attic: The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War. Visit bethelcong.org for more information. Call 412-561-1168 to make a reservation. start-date: 2018-06-04 start time: 11:30 AM end date: 2018-06-04 end time: 1:00 PM all-day event: recurring event: Monthly event…
Find out more »Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha to celebrate the installation of Rabbi Jeffrey Myers
Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha is celebrating the installation of Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, June 8-10. Highlights of the weekend include: Friday Evening: "Shabbat On The Rocks" cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception at 6:00 PM, followed by Shabbat services at 6:45 PM. Saturday Morning: Shabbat morning services at 9:30 AM, followed by a kiddush luncheon Sunday Afternoon: Installation Ceremony at 2:45 PM, followed by a concert by internationally acclaimed recording artists and cantors, Divas On The Bima at 4:00 PM. Costs for…
Find out more »Shabbat Shi’ur with Gabriel Project Mumbai
title: Shabbat Shi’ur with Gabriel Project Mumbai description: “A Jewish response to childhood poverty and ill-health in the developing world” by Jacob Sztokman, Founding Director of Gabriel Project Mumbai Gabriel Project Mumbai, provides daily nutrition, literacy, hygiene and health to 1500 vulnerable children in the slums of Mumbai, India, and surrounding under-served villages. GPM lifesaving programming includes nutritious meals for children in the slums, 2 medical clinics, classes for children in 20 villages and urban slums, safe drinking water programs,…
Find out more »The Hill District: A Bus and Walking Tour
title: The Hill District: A Bus and Walking Tour description: New Light Men's Club and Rodman Street Missionary Baptist Church present a bus and walking tour of Pittsburgh's Hill District, where African American and Immigrant Jews were once neighbors in this culturally diverse renaissance neighborhood. Tour guides from the Hill House and the History Center will guide you through historical remnants and the story of this colorful neightborhood where the Great Immigration from Jewish Europe met the Great Migration from…
Find out more »WoTS Cooking Class
title: WoTS Cooking Class description: Every month WoTS features guest chefs from the community and Temple Sinai with recipes from around the world. We all help to do the work and sit together to socialize and taste our work when we are finished. June features a French-inspired menu led by Executive Director Drew Barkley. Anyone age 16 and older is welcome! RSVP by Friday, June 8 to Carolyn Schwarz, 412-421-1268, 4carolynschwarz@gmail.com start-date: 2018-06-11 start time: 6:30 PM end date: 2018-06-11…
Find out more »Temple Sinai Day Trip to Johnstown
title: Temple Sinai Day Trip to Johnstown, PA Trip highlights will include: A narrated riding tour of Johnstown’s historic downtown that includes viewing buildings that survived the 1889 Johnstown Flood, an orientation to the old Jewish neighborhood of Iron Street, Grandview Cemetery, which contains the Jewish sections dating back to 1888 and the Unknown Plot of 1889 Johnstown Flood victims, A dairy lunch and tour of Congregation Beth Sholom that will include viewing the 125th Anniversary Exhibit of Jewish Johnstown,…
Find out more »Book Discussion: The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
title: Book Discussion: The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok description: Rabbi Barbara Symons of Temple David will lead two discussions of the The of Asher Lev in the Monroeville Public Library Gallery Space on June 13 at 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The discussion is free and open to the public. Please join us. start-date: 2018-06-13 start time: 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. end date: 2018-06-13 end time: all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Monroeville Public Library…
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