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March 2018
Hadassah Annual Meeting
title: Hadassah Annual Meeting description: Installation of 2018 Executive Board Members, Honoring our volunteers, light lunch, Chinese auction Hadassah Greater Pittsburgh will hold its Annual Meeting at 2:00 PM at Green Oaks Country Club. There will be a light lunch served with Chai Tea. Our President will discuss 2017 and our accomplishments and we will be installing our 2018 Executive Board. Please call the office for a reservation (412-421-8919) or send a check for $36.00 as your Couvert and reservation.…
Find out more »Squirrel Hill Historical Society meeting
The Squirrel Hill Historical Society will hold its March program from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. with Elizabeth Roark, associate professor of Art History, Chatham University, who will speak on Allegheny Cemetery's Grandest Angel: The HK Porter Monument, Italian Sculpture and Art Collecting in Pittsburgh. The meeting is free and held at Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Ave. start-date: 2018-03-13 start time: 7:30 PM end date: 2018-12-13 end time: 9:00 PM all-day event: recurring event: Monthly event address: Church…
Find out more »“NIGHTMARES, DREAMS & MORAL IMAGINATION”
Cornell Brooks title: “NIGHTMARES, DREAMS & MORAL IMAGINATION” With Cornell William Brooks description: INTERFAITH & INTERRACIAL DIALOGUE PROGRAM Temple Sinai invites you to share an evening with Reverend Cornell William Brooks, former President and CEO of the NAACP, as he challenges people of faith to commit to creating a more tolerant and just society. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Welcome Reception at 6:15 PM) SPONSORED BY THE SIMON HAFNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION & THE FINE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF RABBI…
Find out more »Lost Worlds Found
The community is invited to attend Lost Worlds Found with University of Pittsburgh at 10:30 a.m. at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Pittsburgh-based photographer David Aschkenas will tell stories behind a selection of his work focusing on photographs of the grand synagogues and Jewish cemeteries of Europe and his ongoing documentation of Pittsburgh. Aschkenas' work will be complemented by students from the University of Pittsburgh as they present new research about Western Pennsylvania Jewish history. Their work stems from…
Find out more »AARP Squirrel Hill Chapter 3354 Meeting
AARP Squirrel Hill Chapter 3354 will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday March 21st at 1 p.m. at Tree of Life located at Shady & Wilkins Ave. There will be a performance by New Horizons Band of Greater Pittsburgh. Come join us for the fun. Everyone is invited -- you don't have to be a member to attend. Refreshments are served after the meeting. Contact Ilene Portnoy at 412-683-7985 for more information. Look forward to seeing you there.
Find out more »Books in the Burgh: “A Man Comes from Someplace,” by Judith Summerfield
Books in the Burgh: "A Man Comes from Someplace," by Judith Summerfield Join the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center for a reading, discussion and book signing with Judith Summerfield, author of “A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time.” The book is a cultural study of a Jewish family from a shtetl in Ukraine before World War I to its lives on several continents in the 21st century. Summerfield builds…
Find out more »“Bagels Over Berlin” Rodef Shalom Sisterhood Movie Night
"Bagels Over Berlin" Rodef Shalom Sisterhood Movie Night description: “Bagels Over Berlin” is a recently produced film directed by film maker Alan Feinberg. Mr. Feinberg will also attend and introduce the film. “Bagels Over Berlin” is a documentary that tells the story of the Jewish young men who joined the U.S. Army Air Corp just as the United States was just entering the war against Hitler and Germany. Through interviews with 30 Jewish War Veterans the film reveals the anti-Semitism…
Find out more »April 2018
WRJ Atlantic District Pittsburgh Area Sisterhood Area Day
title: WRJ Atlantic District Pittsburgh Area Sisterhood Area Day - Panel Discussion about Human Trafficking description: All women are welcome to join us for lunch and a panel discussion about Human Trafficking from 12 - 2 pm at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Speakers include Alison Hall, Executive Director of PAAR, Liz Miller, Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children's Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at UPMC School of Medicine, and Brad Orsini, Security Director for the Jewish Federation. Attendees…
Find out more »Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?
title: "Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?" description: Thousands of miles from the Old World, on a sun-kissed island in the West Indies, a young boy named Alexander Hamilton began a most unlikely journey in the 1750s. His meteoric rise from Caribbean obscurity to American founder has long captivated historians and, more recently, theater audiences. Yet one crucial aspect of Hamilton’s life has remained submerged for centuries: the weight of the evidence suggests that he was in fact Jewish. Drawing on untapped…
Find out more »AARP Squirrel Hill Chapter 3354 monthly meeting
AARP Squirrel Hill Chapter 3354 will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday April 18th at 1 p.m. at Tree of Life located at Shady & Wilkins Ave. There will be Bingo sponsored by Juniper Village. Come join us for the fun. There will be prizes. Everyone is invited -- you don't have to be a member to attend. Refreshments are served after the meeting. Contact Ilene Portnoy at 412-683-7985 for more information. Look forward to seeing you there.
Find out more »May 2018
DNA Successes in (and Despite) Endogamy with Lara Diamond
title: DNA Successes in (and Despite) Endogamy with Lara Diamond description: The Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives welcome noted genealogist Lara Diamond, who will discuss the complications of genetic genealogy within endogamous populations. Diamond is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, leads JewishGen's Subcarpathian SIG and sits on JewishGen's Ukraine SIG's board of directors. She also runs multiple district-and town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors…
Find out more »Salute To Our Veterans
Event: Salute To Our Veterans Date: Wednesday, May 16 at 3pm Location: Adath Jeshurun Cemetery 4779 Roland Road, Allison Park, PA 15101 (North Hills – > see above website for directions) Adath Jeshurun Synagogue was founded in 1916 in the East End of Pittsburgh primarily immigrants from Eastern Europe whose families fled the Pogroms. It Charter was signed in 1918 - 100 years ago! Annually, prior to Memorial Day, Community Day School youth, teachers, parents and Adath Jeshurun Cemetery Board…
Find out more »June 2018
NCJW 125th Celebration and Annual Meeting
title: NCJW 125th Celebration and Annual Meeting description: The National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh section–along with the national organization–celebrates 125 years of service and advocacy in 2018. Join us for a dinner and inspiring program spotlighting the people, projects and partners who have contributed to NCJW’s impact in the Pittsburgh community over the past 125 years. We will also honor Past Presidents, install a new Board President, and present the Hannah G. Solomon Award to Susan Foreman Jordan. start-date:…
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 »A Film on the History of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks
title: Through The Place description: A Film on the History of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks (PHLF) with remarks from Karamagi Rujumba, Director of Public Communications and Advocacy, PHLF start-date: 2018-06-12 start time: 7:30 PM end date: 2018-06-12 end time: 9:00 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
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