Letters to the editor June 25

Step up to the plate to save Jewish Pittsburgh

I congratulate Rabbi Mark N. Staitman for his recent June 11 Opinion piece “Let’s have ‘the talk’: As synagogues resources dwindle, the time has come for transformation change.”

Without viable and active synagogues, Jewish Pittsburgh will disappear.

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It is time for the Federation to open its eyes and pocketbooks and stop the bleeding of our synagogue community. It must be a key player in making our synagogues active and financially viable. It must act as a mediator for possible mergers with the help of its fine leadership.

We have such valuable resources in Pittsburgh. I hope that the Federation will step up to the plate to keep Jewish Pittsburgh something special.

Julian Elbling

Squirrel Hill

Note: The writer is a past president and current board member of Congregation Beth Shalom.