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November 2018
NINE MILE RUN
title: Squirrel Hill Historical Society November Program description: NINE MILE RUN Speaker: Wayne Bossinger, Member of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society Board and Historical Researcher NINE MILE RUN Speaker: Wayne Bossinger, Squirrel Hill Historical Society Board Member and Historical Researcher start-date: 2018-11-13 start time: 7:30 PM end date: 2018-11-13 end time: 9:00 PM all-day event: yes recurring event: No event address: Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »Squirrel Hill AARP welcomes all to a Medicare 2019 presentation
SQ. HILL AARP description: Sq. Hill AARP welcomes all to a Medicare 2019 presentation and brief business meeting November 14 at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5915 Beacon St., at 1 p.m. Christin Sadowsky Trembulak, founding partner of Senior Insurance Products, a 20 year insurance professional and medicare specialist will discuss the national and local advantage plans for 2019. Have you checked what network your doctors will be in next year? Are your prescriptions in the formulary? What tier are they in?…
Find out more »December 2018
Postcard from Germany
title: Postcard from Germany Rabbi Jamie Gibson description: Rabbi Jamie Gibson will share highlights and reflections from his trip to Berlin for the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Come join us for Shabbat Se’udah Ha-Shli-Sheet. The evening will conclude with Havdalah. Free and open to the public. Questions? Contact Nancy Conaway at (412) 421-9715 ext. 115 or Nancy@TempleSinaiPGH.org. start-date: 2018-12-08 start time: 4 PM end date: 2018-12-08 end time: 6 PM all-day event: recurring event: No event address: 5505 Forbes Avenue,…
Find out more »Squirrel Hill Historical Society December Program
title: Squirrel Hill Historical Society December Program description: Title: The Story of Roads and Bridges in Pittsburgh Speaker: Todd Wilson, Transportation Engineer, Bridge Historian and Author of "Pittsburgh Bridges" start-date: 2018-12-11 start time: 7:30 pm end date: 2018-12-11 end time: 9:15 pm all-day event: yes recurring event: No event address: Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://sqhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »January 2019
Helen Wilson, SHHS Co Vice-President and former teacher
Speaker, Helen Wilson, SHHS Co Vice-President and former teacher "The History of Squirrel's Hill Public Elementary Schools" start-date: 2019-01-08 start time: 7:30 pm end date: 2019-01-08 end time: 9:15 pm all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://Squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »February 2019
Matthias Hass: Exhibit on The Wannsee Conference and Anti-Semitism
Matthias Hass: Exhibit on The Wannsee Conference and Antisemitism description: The Wannsee Conference and the Persecution and Murder of the European Jews Come to Levy Hall in Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, for this special presentation and exhibit on the Wannsee conference, in which the Nazis worked out the logistics of the Final Solution. The exhibition educates about the Holocaust, exposing the motives of the perpetrators and commemorating the victims. It focuses on the Wannsee Conference, its participants and…
Find out more »March 2019
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be at the Heritage Discovery Center in Johnstown. The exhibition examines how the Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and ultimately, genocide. Admission to the entire Heritage Discovery Center will be free every Saturday during the exhibition in order to maximize the number of people who see it.…
Find out more »Squirrel Hill Historical Society (SHHS) March Program
title: Squirrel Hill Historical Society (SHHS) March Program description: History of Kennywood Speaker: Andy Quinn, Member of Family That Has Owned Kennywood Park for more than 100 years, Historian and Former Kennywood Community Relations Director start-date: 2019-03-12 start time: 7:30 pm end date: 2019-03-12 end time: 9:15 pm all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »An Evening of Holocaust Education and Remembrance
An Evening of Holocaust Education and Remembrance description: In commemoration of the Tree of Life Synagogue, Shaler Area High School students are hosting an evening of Holocaust remembrance and education. In the library and LIGHT Center (Center for Leadership through Innovation in Genocide and Human rights Teaching), survivor Shulamit Bastacky, students, and leaders from the SNHL and Millvale libraries will decorate butterflies in remembrance of child victims of the Holocaust and read stories of empathy and tolerance. In the lobby,…
Find out more »Healthy Living for the Brain & Body
title: Healthy Living for the Brain & Body description: Presented by Amy Dukes, Director of Memory Care Operations at the Jewish Association on Aging (JAA) start-date: 2019-03-28 start time: 07:00 PM end date: 2019-03-28 end time: all-day event: recurring event: No event address: South Hills JCC 345 Kane Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15243 event organizer: David Rullo event website: http://southhillsjewishpittsburgh.org/healthy event cost: FREE
Find out more »April 2019
SHHS History of Dollar Bank
From: <historysqhill@hotmail.com> title: Squirrel Hill Historical Society (SHHS) April Program description: History of Dollar Bank Speakers: Joseph Smith. Senior Vice President, Dollar Bank, and Dorothy Spangle, Multi-Media Production Specialist at Dollar Bank start-date: 2019-04-09 start time: 7:30 pm end date: 2019-04-09 end time: 9:15 pm all-day event: recurring event: No event address: Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://Squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »May 2019
Gene Kelly and the Jewish Community of Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill Historical Society May Program description: 'Gene Kelly and the Jewish Community of Squirrel Hill" Speaker: Eric Lidji Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives Senator John Heinz History Center start-date: 2019-05-14 start time: 7:30 pm end date: 2019-05-14 end time: 9:15 pm all-day event: recurring event: No event address: 5700 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa event organizer: Squirrel Hill Historical Society event website: http://squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »September 2019
Awaken, Reflect, Together.
We all have questions after October 27. How do these things happen? Why? Where was God? The 10.27 Healing Partnership with the Elul Program Committee presents Awaken, Reflect, Together, a discussion of these questions by community leaders. Planned by Beth Kissileff Perlman and Sara Stock Mayo at the JCC Kaufman Building. All are welcome.
Find out more »Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s 2019 Annual Meeting
Celebrate Community Strength at FED Talks, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s 2019 Annual Meeting beginning at 7 p.m. at the August Wilson Center. Experts will discuss what makes a person or community resilient, Jewish community leaders will be celebrated and Federation leaders will report on a year without precedent. Visit https://jewishpgh.org/annual-meeting to preregister. Dietary laws observed. Free valet parking. Preregistration: $10/Walk-in Registration $20 Online registration closes at 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 3
Find out more »Retrospective: 1992-2019
You are invited to attend the closing program of the Jewish Women’s Center of Pittsburgh, Retrospective: 1992-2019 at the Rauh Jewish History Program and Archives located in the Heinz History Museum. Come mingle, reminisce and enjoy light refreshments. Please RSVP to http://evite.me/zUeenuUehG by August 28.
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