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April 2018
Community Day School Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Community Day School Yom HaShoah Commemoration description: Please join Community Day School Middle School for a Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemoration on Thursday, April 12 from 8:45-9:30 a.m. The moving event, which is open to the community, will include student-led music, Hebrew prayer, lighting of remembrance candles by local Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as a flag-lowering ceremony. It will coincide with the annual commemoration of the Holocaust established by Congress and led by the United States…
Find out more »Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2018
title: Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2018 description: The Holocaust Center has been holding a community-wide commemoration since the establishment of the Center in 1980. This year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration will honor local survivors and their families. The program will include selections from Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s publication Flares of Memory. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. start-date: 2018-04-12 start time: 6:30pm end date: end time: all-day event: recurring event: No event address: JCC Katz…
Find out more »Allison Amend
Allison Amend (Photo provided by Shannon Reed) April 12 & 13th will be the 5th annual Rowan Festival in the Writing Program at Pitt. This festival is sponsored by The Alex Rowan Foundation (http://www.alexrowanfoundation.org/). Alex was a recent graduate of Pitt's creative writing program who tragically passed away in 2013. The festival is one of the events Alex's parents sponsor in her memory. Pitt brings a writer of national renown to the campus for a reading, and to hold a…
Find out more »SHIM Holocaust Observance
title: SHIM Holocaust Observance description: The 2018 South Hills Interfaith Movement (SHIM) Holocaust Observance, "Miracle of Music: Giving Voice to the Oppressed" will be held on Sunday, April 15 at Temple Emanuel at 7:30 PM. Clergy from Temple Emanuel, Beth El, St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church will participate in the service. The Clarion Quartet, a group of Pittsburgh Symphony musicians, will perform; the service will also include a Remembrance of the Righteous Gentiles and a…
Find out more »Author Talk: Sharon Dilworth
title: Author Talk: Sharon Dilworth description: Sharon Dilworth will read from her new work, "Two Sides, Three Rivers". Sharon Dilworth is the author of two other collections of short stories and two novels. Her new book is a collection of stories that take place in Pittsburgh. Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. She is the director of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University…
Find out more »Allderdice High School’s Annual Hall Of Fame
Pittsburgh Allderdice High School will once again recognize distinguished alumni who are leaving their mark on the world. This year, alumni Devra Davis, Brenda Ekwurzel, Michael Himelstein, Tereneh Mosley, and Jackson Wright will join the Taylor Allderdice Hall of Fame. • _Devra Davis, Ph.D., MS, founder and president of the Environmental Health Trust, is an environmental health researcher and author whose publications include When Smoke Ran Like Water, a 2003 National Book Award Finalist that reviews environmental pollution over the…
Find out more »The Second Annual Walk to Remember
title: The Second Annual Walk to Remember description: The Holocaust Center and Community Day School are proud to co-sponsor the second annual WALK TO REMEMBER.This event brings together Holocaust survivors and their families, honors the survivors, and educates the public about the legacies of local survivors. Participants walk the perimeter around Community Day School six times to memorialize the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. The walk begins at the site of the Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs:…
Find out more »May 2018
Lag B’Omer Kirtan Concert
Lag B’Omer Kirtan Concert description: Light your inner bonfire on this propitious day of singing, dancing, and rejoicing together! Hebrew Kirtan is continual call-and-response, fully participatory chant where short, sacred phrases from the Jewish tradition are treated as powerful, universal meditations. No need to be Jewish or know Hebrew to fully immerse in this experience. Led by Kirtan Rabbi, Keshira HaLev Fife, & full band. Part of the Weeks of Jewish Flourishing. Learn more at: rodefshalom.org/weeks start-date: 2018-05-02 start time:…
Find out more »Sacred Book Burial
title: Sacred Book Burial description: The Jewish Cemetery and Burial Assn. (JCBA) together with Ralph Schugar Chapel will be holding a book burial of sacred texts - shames - at the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery. The community is invited to participate and attend. Prayer books such as siddurim, chumashim and High Holiday machzorim in which the Hebrew name of God has been printed and that have become frayed, worn out or are in disrepair will be buried in a special…
Find out more »Book Talk and Signing: ‘Wordwings’ by Sydelle Pearl
title: Book Talk and Signing: Wordwings by Sydelle Pearl description: Sydelle will discuss her book "Wordwings," the fictional diary of a 12-year-old girl in the Warsaw Ghetto. A well-researched history interwoven with folktales and fairy tales, Wordwings will launch our new book club. This event is free and open to the public. start-date: 2018-05-06 start time: 4:00 end date: 2018-05-06 end time: 5:30 all-day event: recurring event: No event address: 826 Hazelwood Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15217 event organizer: Holocaust Center…
Find out more »Penn State Then and Now
Penn State Then and Now Speaker: Athena Jackson Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair Interim University Archivist Penn State University Tuesday May 8, 2018 7:30 pm Church of the Redeemer 5700 Forbes Avenue Free of Charge Squirrel Hill Historical Society http://squirrelhillhistory.org event cost: Free
Find out more »‘The Forbidden Conversation’
The Katz Theater at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill will present actor and photographer Gili Getz at 7 p.m. in “The Forbidden Conversation,” a personal one-man performance that explores the challenges of having a conversation about Israel in the American Jewish community. A discussion with Getz and members of the audience will follow the performance. Contact Kenny Cohen at kenneth@jstreet.org or visit act.jstreet.org/signup/forbidden-conversation-PITT for more information and to register.
Find out more »Zionism and YJ Camps
title: Zionism and YJ Camps description: On May 10, 2017 Hadassah Greater Pittsburgh and Young Judaea will present a Panel Discussion on Gil Troy's new book, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland - Then, Now, Tomorrow. The discussion will take place at the Hadassah office at 1824 Murray Avenue, Suite 202 Pittsburgh, PA 15217, start-date: 2018-05-10 start time: end date: end time: all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: 1824 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 event organizer: Francine…
Find out more »An Evening with Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
title: An Evening with Rabbi Joseph Telushkin description: The Rabbi William Sajowitz Endowment Fund of Temple Emanuel and South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh are excited to bring Rabbi Joseph Telushkin to Pittsburgh on Thursday, May 10. Rabbi Telushkin will speak on "The Twenty-First Century: A Moral Vision, One Day at a Time," at 7:30 PM at the Upper St. Clair High School Theater. This event is being held in honor of Rabbi Mark Mahler's upcoming retirement after 38 years of service…
Find out more »Torah & Tea for Women
title: Torah & Tea for Women description: Discussion "Torah, Our Greatest Treasure" Contact Batya at batya@chabadsh.com or 412-512-2330. start-date: 2018-05-15 start time: 11AM end date: 2018-05-15 end time: all-day event: recurring event: --- event address: Galleria Mt. Lebanon 1500 Washington Rd. Pittsburgh, PA 15228 event organizer: Chabad of the South Hills event website: http://www.chabadsh.com event cost: $5 suggested donation
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