Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle 7-19-19

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Neglected Jewish cemetery in White Oak restored by non-Jewish volunteers

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Pigeon Bagels opens for business at new location

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After several months of prayer, Pudlowski said, he got his answer: “Fix it.”

But the job of clearing out and restoring that cemetery was too vast for one person, so Pudlowski enlisted the help of his friend Mike Lia and Lia’s son, Daniel, who had been searching for an Eagle Scout project.

“We took it on,” said Pudlowski.

His first step was to try to determine who owned the cemetery property, which was not so easy.

“I asked the White Oak borough, and they said they didn’t know who the property owners were, all they knew was that it was a Jewish cemetery,” Pudlowski said.

He also called the two synagogues in White Oak, Temple B’nai Israel and Gemilas Chesed Congregation. No answers were conclusive.

There are eight headstones that remain in this tiny cemetery, ranging in dates from 1902 to 1924. That time frame is curious, because there is a larger Jewish cemetery nearby with headstones of similar dates.

“It doesn’t make sense,” said Eric Lidji, director of the Rauh Jewish History Program

igeon Bagels is ready for takeoff.

The machinery is in, construction is complete and the sweet smell of savory bagels is noticeable.

The small-scale kosher-certified bakery opened this week, and owner Gab Taube said they’re ready for the bagel rush.

“On day 1, we’ll be pushing 1,800 bagels, with hopes,” said the Regent Square resident (whose last name means “pigeon” in German) prior to the opening.

There will be plain, sesame, everything, garlic and poppy seed bagels, along with various schmears and homemade cream cheese to choose from. Most days, customers will be able to select from about five offerings on the menu as well as other à la carte items.

If choices seem limited, it is because they are.

“We may have less options than other places. It’s very purposeful,” she said. “We are being reasonable with our abilities.”

Taube previously rented space and equipment from A’Pizza Badam in Mt. Lebanon to cook the bagels. Now she’s moved the business to a permanent storefront at 5613 Hobart St. in Squirrel Hill, at a site that previously housed Nu-Life Cleaners & Shirt Laundry. Parking is scant and the venue is small, but customers who flocked to farmers markets and local cafes to get Pigeon Bagels in the past will find similar contentment inside the brickand-mortar space.

“We went from being a table in a tent to a little bigger,” said Taube. “It’s actually not so different from our farmers market size, but indoors and much classier.”

Given the layout and takeout nature of the enterprise, customers get a chance to observe the artisanal operation up-close.

Opening the door to Pigeon Bagels basically places customers right in the mix, watching as Taube’s eight employees prep, bake and serve.

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 A Jewish cemetery in White Oak was overgrown and in disrepair.

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Locals remember the singular experience of Woodstock.

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By Toby Tabachnick | Senior Staff Writer

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or months, Mark Pudlowski could not get the bleak image out of his mind: a tiny cemetery in shambles, overgrown with tall weeds. Several of its tombstones, inscribed in Hebrew, were toppled or askew.

Pudlowski, 60, a Christian and the founder of the Family of God Biblical Reasoning and Counseling Prayer Center in White Oak, Pennsylvania, came upon the cemetery about a year ago, as he was driving up Rippel Road off Route 48 toward Center Street. From his car window, he could see what looked like a tombstone behind a stone wall and obscured by brush. When he returned later to investigate, he was distressed by what he found.

“I went through the woods and stood there,” said Pudlowski, a family therapist and retired surface warfare specialist for the United States Navy. “I was all by myself, and I started feeling very sad. This was somebody’s mom, somebody’s dad, somebody’s sister, somebody’s brother.”

The fact that these Jewish graves had been neglected haunted him.

“I prayed about it,” said Pudlowski. “I asked God what he wanted me to do.”

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Headlines Bodiography founding director takes group to Israeli dance festival — LOCAL —

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aria Caruso never went to Woodstock, but a week in Israel gave the Pittsburgh resident some sense of the summer concert’s vibe from a half-century ago. Caruso, founding director of Bodiography and La Roche University’s performing arts department chair, recently returned from the Karmiel Dance Festival, Israel’s largest dance celebration. In its 32nd year, the three-day event featured nearly 100 shows performed by approximately 10,000 dancers before 250,000 attendees.

“It was the most amazing experience of my career because of the community and the people,” she said.

Caruso, who attended the 2018 festival as a solo artist, brought nine of her dancers, ranging in age from 21 to 31, to this year’s gathering. The group was asked to deliver the festival’s final performance at Karmiel Cultural Hall, and executed “Doors and Windows,” a Caruso creation of diverse choreographic style.

“Closing the festival in the Cultural Hall was a huge honor,” she said.

Caruso also performed Martha Graham’s iconic modern dance solo “Lamentation.”

“Martha Graham was the original. She was the one and only, a cultural ambassador that brought American modern dance to Israel,” added Caruso, 38.

In 1964, Graham, a one-time Allegheny City resident, and her patron, Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, founded Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. The endeavor

sprung from Rothschild having studied dance with Graham in New York City years earlier.

In 1956, Rothschild joined the Martha Graham Company on its East Asia tour.

Because of Rothschild’s influence, the tour included an important stop in Israel. Historians mark that visit as a moment when American dance largely captured interests in the fledgling state. Rothschild later organized two additional Israeli tours. Along with Graham’s subsequent efforts, Rothschild imparted a newfound infrastructure and culture in Israel.

Decades later, dance, whether folk, modern or ballet, still serves as a critical component Above and right, Maria Caruso in Katonti Solo

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Headlines Washington Post columnist Alyssa Rosenberg talks culture in advance of Pittsburgh appearance — and called for readers “to learn how to reconsecrate what we value.”

Also this month, Rosenberg chastised those trying to get political and moral mileage out of Jeffrey Epstein’s recent arrest and encouraged greater efforts at ending sexual exploitation and violence.

Through her work, which appears both in print and on digital chats hosted for the Post, Rosenberg confronts many issues in daily life, while parrying on countless cultural products, from sitcoms to streaming movies.

For the July 23 Vietnam War Speaker Series event at the Heinz History Center, Rosenberg hopes to highlight Burns’ and Novick’s choices and draw parallels between past and present.

In making “The Vietnam War,” the documentarians spent hundreds of hours interviewing people from both North and South Vietnam, as well as the United States, to broaden understanding, Rosenberg explained.

One of the filmmakers’ biggest successes was in enabling viewers to “look at this not as a two-sided war, but as a three-sided war.”

Watching the documentary (which Rosenberg did multiple times, as well as record a podcast to accompany each

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mericans may self-select their news, friends and communities based on biases, but culture is a chance for breaching silos. Whether it is committing to watching 18 hours of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War,” or exploring the 23 films in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, plopping down on a sofa and powering on a screen may be a way to combat cultural fragmentation, connect with those unknown or investigate unexplored ideas, said Alyssa Rosenberg, a Washington Post opinion writer, who is visiting Pittsburgh next week.

Rosenberg’s takes on controversial topics are familiar to Washington Post readers and Twitter followers.

In recent weeks, she has taken on Nike and national politicians after the apparel company dropped its Fourth of July special edition Air Max 1 Quick Strike — the shoes, which featured a “Betsy Ross” flag on the back, were criticized by former NFL quarterback and social activist Colin Kaepernick for being an offensive reminder of slavery

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Headlines Grant brings opportunities to Ethiopian Israeli students — LOCAL —

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mong the swimming, singing and marshmallow roasting, overnight camp affords plenty of time for socializing. Such opportunity to fraternize is at the heart of a philanthropic venture bringing two Ethiopian Israeli teens to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s Emma Kaufmann Camp this summer.

“Bridges to Pittsburgh,” which serves under the auspices of the Bridges program, an Israeli-based extracurricular Englishimmersion endeavor operated by the Ethiopian National Project, will enable the two visiting teens to serve as “mini ambassadors and build bridges between communities,” said Brian Eglash, senior vice president and chief development officer for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

Because of this program, these teens will have the chance to “strengthen their leadership skills and their English skills,” added Kim Salzman, Federation’s director of Israel and overseas operations.

The Federation has long worked in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, and procuring the Please see Ethiopian, page 20

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Headlines Seniors take the stage at Weinberg Terrace talent show

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he comedy gig at Weinberg Terrace on June 10 was not the first for Thelma Miller.

Far from it. In fact, the Weinberg resident and amateur comic has been delighting audiences with jokes for more than 80 years, performing predominately for “organizations and at celebrations,” she said.

Miller’s five-minute set at the personal care facility on Bartlett Street in Squirrel Hill, which included three jokes performed in a Yiddish accent, was just one segment of an hour-long “Gilligan’s Island”-themed talent show, an event designed to showcase the diverse gifts and skills of Weinberg residents as well as some staff members.

“I thought the show was great,” Miller told the Chronicle afterward. “There is life here in people yet.”

The event — the first of its kind at Weinberg — was conceived and arranged

by Tara Bailey, Weinberg’s activities director.

A big “Gilligan’s Island” fan, Bailey was inspired by the episode in which the castaways competed in their own talent show.

“I thought this would be fun, something special,” said Bailey, who decorated the activities room with starfish and sea horses, fisherman netting, anchors, lifesavers, starfish and other nautical accessories.

It was fun. Highlights included residents Jude Blank and Doris Kennedy reading from their own prose and poetry; songs performed by Mindy and Bill Jones and Irving Krasnopoler; and a hysterical Burns and Allen routine performed by Ilene and Jeffrey Ruttenberg, who have been married for 58 years.

“I grew up with Burns and Allen,” Jeffrey Ruttenberg said in an interview following the show. “They were terrific. The rabbi [Eli Seidman] asked Ilene and me to do this part about six weeks ago. It’s a good time to make people laugh.”

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Celebrated artist and Weinberg resident Mimie Zlotnik displayed and discussed one of her most beloved paintings, “Mimsie’s Ark.” Zlotnik explained that she created two almost identical works — whimsical animals on board an ark — for two grandchildren who were born around the same time, and described the legacy she intended to pass on to them with the paintings.

Donna Martin, activities assistant served as emcee. Other staff members also enthusiastically got into the act, with performances on violin and piano and vocals. Storyteller Emily Harris, who runs an improv group at Weinberg, recited an impromptu fairy tale.

Business Manager George Maloney hula-hooped to “The Twist,” a song “all the residents could relate to,” he said.

The penultimate act may have been the most surprising: Rabbi Eli Seidman, pastoral rabbi of the Jewish Association on Aging, delivered a solo rendition of the Johnny Cash hit “A Boy Named Sue,” while donning a Western-style bow tie and a red, white and blue straw cowboy hat.

Seidman adeptly dived into the Shel Silverstein lyrics that Cash made famous: “Well, my daddy left home when I was 3/ And he didn’t leave much to Ma and me/ Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze …” while discreetly editing out the mild expletive that came later in the song.

“I’ve known this song by heart since I was a kid,” Seidman told the Chronicle, adding that he chose to perform it in the talent show because he was fairly confident it would be “different from everybody else.”

His act was definitely a crowd-pleaser, drawing animated applause.

Seidman thanked the participants for their courage in taking the stage, and acknowledged that it “takes guts to come up and perform in front of your friends and neighbors …. It’s not about being a professional.

It’s about sharing what we have.” PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Mt. Lebanon native publishes book on bipolar disorder — LOCAL —

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Jewish Mt. Lebanon native, who goes by the pen name Brett Stevens, has published a new book about bipolar disorder: “Crossover: A Look Inside a Manic Mind.”

Stevens is a professional poker player who maintains a blog on the subject, as well as a real estate agent.

His book tracks the discovery of his mania through events, both public and private, and his burgeoning awareness that his decisions were not arrived at in sound mind, and that something had to change.

“This story started out as a therapeutic exercise to write a narrative of my life, integrating my childhood memories with the visceral accounts of recurrent major psychiatric illness in adulthood,” Stevens said in a prepared statement.

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“Along the way, I discovered that I have hypermnesia: the ability to remember personal life events with detailed accuracy. As a result, this first-person account details the evolution of psychosis and its impact on my behavior.”

Through determination, and with the help of professionals and family, Stevens is now better able to manage his mental health.

“My hope is that my perspective sheds light on the progression of bipolar disorder and will enhance someone’s ability to learn and empathize with those affected by the illness,” Stevens said.

“Crossover: A Look Inside a Manic Mind” published by New York City-based Page Publishing, is available at bookstores and online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play and Barnes and Noble. PJC — Toby Tabachnick JULY 19, 2019 5

Headlines ‘Everywhere was a song and a celebration’: Pittsburghers share Woodstock memories 50 years later

 Mark Shreiber’s original Woodstock tickets

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mellow days of music, similar to a small blues festival in Ann Arbor they had attended the previous month.

“We had no idea when we left what we

were getting into,” recalled Ainsman. “We thought we would lay back again and enjoy great music. But we found as we approached the area that the traffic stopped on these

back-country roads, and there were lots of people walking around, and they all had long hair, and they were all in various states of various kinds of dress, and they acted as though there was no authority over them.

They were free.

“And that went on the entire time,” Ainsman continued. “Very quickly we realized that it was not going to be a quiet three days enjoying music, and that all of the fencing and the infrastructure that had been created to handle the people was completely inadequate.”

Still, despite the disorder, what Ainsman witnessed was “extraordinary.”

“Within a day, a city of half a million people popped up in the countryside,” he said. “And for three days, there was no violence. A pop-up city of half a million people, and no violence, no fights, nothing.

A community was created out of nowhere.”

Some people assumed the responsibility of feeding the crowd, medical personnel came in and set up tents for those who were ill. Others set up tents to shelter people from the rain.

“It was like a 500,000-person family,” Ainsman said. “People don’t look at it that way; they think, sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, of which there was plenty, particularly the rock ’n’ roll. It was incredible music. And it was incredible to realize that we could have a culture that was really based on peace and love. We actually believed that. This was a pop-up city of 500,000 people, and community was built instantly. It was incredible.”

Although he didn’t realize it at the time, Ainsman was getting a lesson in community-building.

“As my life went on and [my wife] Meryl [Ainsman] and I were so involved in helping to build this community and other communities, I came to understand that that part

Photo courtesy of David Ainsman

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t was a different era, defined by a generation of youth that believed it would heal the world with love and usher in an age of peace.

Woodstock, a three-day festival of music held in August 1969, was a reflection of that time, as more than a half-million people came to upstate New York, gathering on the land of Jewish farmer Max Yasgur, for what was officially billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music.”

Organizers of the concert — including Artie Kornfeld, Michael Lang, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, who were all Jewish — could not have predicted the enormity and lasting significance of Woodstock. Neither could they have anticipated the vast challenges that would be faced. For starters, there was a last-minute change of venue.

Then, an expected crowd of 100,000 swelled to 500,000, causing shortages of food and water. Torrential rain created rivers of mud.

None of that mattered. The festival, which boasted sets by 34 of the top performers of the decade, was a huge success, and became a makeshift, but nonetheless halcyon, village, albeit with loud music.

Five decades have passed, but memories of Woodstock are still vivid for two Jewish Pittsburghers, and a former Jewish Pittsburgher, who were there.

David Ainsman, attorney, Pittsburgh Ainsman was 19 and a student at the University of Pittsburgh when he and a “vanload” of friends headed to upstate New York for what they expected to be three 6

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 David Ainsman, c. 1969

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Wholly Holy: Exploring Faith, Practice and Belonging in Judaism and Christianity, a series about Jewish and Christian lifecycle events and why we do them the way we do them. This interfaith program is presented in partnership between the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and Congregation Beth Shalom.

11 a.m.-1 p.m., Eisner Commons, Congregation Beth Shalom. The series is free, lunch included. Free on-site childcare available.

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“Heal, Grow and Live with Hope” NarAnon and NA meetings every Wednesday evening at Beth El Congregation, 1900 Cochran Road, 15220, at 7:30 p.m. Come to office/school entrance at the end of the building to be buzzed in. Call Karen at 412-563-3395 and leave a message for more information. q FRIDAY, JULY 19 Celebrate Jewish Christmas in July.

MoHoHo, Merry Jewmas (in July)! Join Moishe House for this twist on the traditional Shabbat celebration. Eat Chinese food and Christmas cookies, with plenty of eggnog to wash it down! Welcome in Shabbat with services in the living room at 7:30 p.m. and then adjourn to the dining room for dinner. If you would like to participate in a White Elephant gift exchange, bring a silly wrapped gift, something you find in your house or $5 or under. Moishe House events

are intended for young adults age 22-32.

Please sign up on OneTable: bit.ly/2RuIYKM q THURSDAY, JULY 25 Moishe House is heading to Nerd Nite Pittsburgh. Nerd Nite is a monthly lecture event that strives for an inebriated, salacious, yet deeply academic vibe. It’s often about science or technology, but by no means is it limited to such topics. And it’s definitely entertaining. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/ L4YMyskvommHLEq96. Moishe House events are intended for young adults age 22-32. q SATURDAY, JULY 27 The Kollel Jewish Learning Center welcomes Dasi Indich for Shalosh Seudos at the home of Shana Ziff (1808 Beechwood Boulevard) at 5 p.m. Ziff presents “Of Weasels and Wells: The Isha HaShumanis — A Picture of a Woman’s Faith.” Free and open to the community. Visit kollelpgh.org for more information. q SATURDAY, JULY 27-THURSDAY,

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The Kollel Learning Center welcomes Sara Chana Weinberger at 9:30 a.m. Weinberger will present “And You Shall Speak to the Daughters of Yaakov: The Life and Legacy of Sara Scheirer.” Leah Milch presents “Rus: A Paragon of Chessed-Redined” at 10:30 a.m.

Weinberger discusses “Michal, Avigayil and Batsheva: The Wives and Lives of King David” at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the community.

Visit kollelpgh.org for more information.

Rabbi Doniel Schon presents a Parsha class at 9:30 a.m. followed by Lisa Cook’s presentation “Tapping into True Greatness in our Generation: The Life Lessons of Rebbetzin Henny Machlis” at 10:30 a.m. Sara Leah Weisswasser presents “Channah: A Study in Using Life’s Challenges to Deepen Our Relationship with Hashem” at 7:30 p.m. All three opportunities are at the Kollel Jewish Learning Center. Free and open to the community. Visit kollelpgh.org for more information.

q TUESDAY, JULY 30 There are three opportunities to learn with Kollel Learning Center: Rabbi Levi Langer presents “Navi Shiur Aleph” at 9:30 a.m.

“Women Sages Through the Ages: From Bruriah to Nechama Leibowitz” is presented at 10:30 a.m. by Sara Chana Weinberger. “The Great Women Behind the Greatest Prophet: A Look at Yocheved, Miriam, Zipporah… and BIsyah?” is discussed by Weinberger at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the community.

Visit kollelpgh.org for more information. q TUESDAY, JULY 30

The Kollel Jewish Learning Center presents 19th Annual Women’s Summer Learning Program. Learn about great women in Jewish history, discovery their biographies and inspirational messages from their lives.

Free and open to the community. Visit kollelpgh.org for more information.

Enjoy a classic Game Night at Moishe House from 7 to 9 p.m. Bring your favorite game or play one of theirs. As always, snacks and drinks will be provided. Contact moishehousepgh@gmail.com for more information. Moishe House events are intended for young adults age 22-32.

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Dasi Indich presents “Rebuilding the Temple through Building People: Rachel, Wife of Rabbi Akiva — The Power of Belief in Oneself and Others” for Sunday Brunch and Learn at 10:30 a.m. at the Kollel Learning Center (5808 Beacon St., Perlow Hall).

Free and open to the community. Visit kollelpgh.org for more information.

Sara Chana Weinberger presents “Mothers of Mashiach” at 9:30 a.m.; Elky Langer discusses “Chuldah and Esther: Prophecies of Darkness” at 10:30 a.m. and Yikara Levari presents “Devorah and Yael: The Feminism of the Ancients” at 7:30 p.m.

All three opportunities are at the Kollel Jewish Learning Center. Free and open to the community. Visit kollelpgh.org for more information.

q MONDAY, AUGUST 5 Beth El Congregation of the South Hills presents their monthly lunch series with Rabbi Alex Greenbaum and a guest of interest. This month, George Savarese presents “The End of the American Empire.” $6.00, includes lunch. Visit https:// bethelcong.org/events/first-mondaysseries-2019-01-07-2019-08-05/ for more information and to RSVP. q TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 How do different groups work together to effect change, while being sensitive of each other’s needs? Playback Theater leads Inclusivity in Activism at Repair the World beginning at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Food and beverages served. To RSVP visit hcofpgh.orog/optic-voices-roots q WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 Join members of the Jewish community for an opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet some new. The Pittsburgh Pirates meet the Washington Nationals at Jewish Heritage Night. Each game ticket purchased will include a limited edition “Pittsburgh Strong” Hebrew T-Shirt. A specially priced kosher meal can be purchased for just $5 per person. The menu can be found at pirates.com/jewishheritage or call 412-325-4903. PJC

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mmai Alaquiva recalls the exact moment he decided to create the “Optic Voices” photography series. He was attending a Black Lives Matter rally in 2016 with his camera.

“I saw a 2-year-old kid pulling on his mom’s leg because there were these signs that said, ‘I Am A Human Being’ and he wanted one. Although he couldn’t read, he understood the power of this sign and saw everyone else carrying one. When his mother finally gave in … he grabbed it with such courage. I noticed what transformed in his spirit and wanted to capture it. When he looked into my camera, he had more courage than I’ve seen in most adults. It was like he was saying, ‘Don’t kill me. Give me a chance. I’m only 2.’

“When I loaded the images onto my computer, my mouth dropped. I never saw myself as a photographer or photojournalist

… I saw images I never saw before.

I was excited to post these because I fight through art.”

Alaquiva is an Emmy Awardwinning film director and composer. He was appointed to the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts

by Gov. Tom Wolf. While he had a history of working in the arts, photography was new to him.

His photos were shared thousands of times on social media.

Janet Burley Wilson, the president and CEO of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, saw the photos and convinced Alaquiva to curate an art show.

“Optic Voices” was born.

The exhibit moved from the August Wilson African American Cultural Center to Repair the World and evolved to become “Optic Voices: Conversations” focused on the Holocaust.

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p “Hands” features the hands of the loved ones of Daniel Stein, including Stein’s widow, Sharyn Stein, daughter Leigh Stein, son Joe Stein and grandson Henri Stein.

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Photo by Emmai Alaquiva

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Headlines — WORLD — Trump cites Israel in defending his call for Democratic congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries President Donald Trump said that his call for some Democrat congresswomen to “go back” to their countries also was in defense of Israel.

Trump referenced Israel on Twitter Sunday amid an outcry over an earlier tweet he made that critics said was racist.

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world, now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” he wrote. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”

He subsequently tweeted: “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion.”

Trump was widely understood to be speaking about Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan

Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. All four, who are left-leaning newcomers in their party, are American citizens belonging to ethnic minorities.

“When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said.

So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!” he wrote in a series of tweets Monday. “If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.” “We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they’re calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin’s [sic],” Trump wrote.

He also wrote: “They talk about Israel like they’re a bunch of thugs, not victims of the entire region.”

Rabbi Jill Jacobs of the left-leaning rabbis’ human rights group T’ruah said of Trump’s series of tweets, “This has nothing to do with Israel. It’s about your behavior toward American citizens & congresspeople. Please don’t try to cover up your racism by making Israel a wedge.”

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the oldest xenophobic prejudiced comments expressed by bigots in our country.”

The American Jewish Committee praised diversity in response to Trump’s comments.

“Our nation was built by people who hailed from every corner of the globe and we are enriched by our diversity to this day,” it tweeted. “Surely we can have policy debates in this country without resorting to potshots at our opponents’ identities or origins.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “Every American came from somewhere. Time for everyone in #WashingtonDC to drop the identity politics #racism.”

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action called Trump “a racist and white supremacist” and criticized Republicans for not condemning the remarks.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked on Twitter, “Is the Republican silence over President @realDonaldTrump’s racism agreement or embarrassment?”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., described the president as “a liar, a fraud, a narcissist and a bully” in response to the comments.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., called the comments “racist and hateful.”

“Telling a group of American women of color to go back to their country is fundamentally un-American,” she wrote on Twitter.

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., condemned the comments on Twitter, calling them “xenophobic.” PJC

This week in Israeli history July 23, 1984 — Israel elects 11th Knesset

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For Jewish groups and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Trump’s comments have struck an intense chord. Here’s how many of them have responded.

Lindsey Graham supported the president, saying that the group of progressive Democratic congresswomen are “a bunch of communists. They hate Israel. They hate our own country.”

The Republican Jewish Coalition tweeted a clip of Graham’s statement, made to Fox News, and wrote, “He isn’t wrong.” Asked to elaborate, an RJC spokesman wrote to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that “we simply believe that everything Senator Graham says in this clip is correct, both in fact and sentiment.”

Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called Trump “America’s ‘Racist in Chief ” in a statement denouncing the comment.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said, “As Jews, we’re familiar with this kind of prejudice. It has no purpose but to divide us and spread hate,” he wrote. “Whether or not you like their politics, telling people born in the US to ‘go back where they came from’ is flat-out racist and telling naturalized citizens the same is xenophobic.”

Abraham Foxman, the former longtime director of the ADL, called the tweet “one of

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July 19, 1940 — Max Bodenheimer dies

Max Bodenheimer dies five years after immigrating to Jerusalem. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1865, Bodenheimer attended the First Zionist Congress and served as the first Jewish National Fund chairman.

July 20, 1949 — Syria, Israel sign armistice

Israel signs an armistice with Syria, the last of four Arab nations (after Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan) to sign such agreements at the end of Israel’s War of Independence.

In the election for the 11th Knesset, the Labor Alignment, led by Shimon Peres, wins 44 seats, and Likud, led by Yitzhak Shamir, receives 41. Labor and Likud agree to form a national unity government, with Peres and Shamir taking turns as prime minister.

July 24, 1920 — Bella Abzug born

Bella Abzug, the first Jewish woman elected to Congress, is born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish immigrant parents from Russia. She serves three terms in the U.S. House after first being elected in 1970.

July 25, 1973 — Gold Medalist Leibovitch born

July 21, 1948 — U.S. opposes stationing troops in Israel

Philip Jessup, the acting U.S. representative to the United Nations, writes a seven-point memo to Secretary of State George Marshall on why the United States should not send peacekeeping troops to Jerusalem.

July 22, 1946 — King David Hotel bombed

The militant Jewish organization Irgun bombs Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, the British administrative headquarters in Palestine, killing 91 people despite telephone warnings of the attack.

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Keren Leibovitch is born in Hod Hasharon.

Paralyzed from the waist down in a military training accident at age 18, she wins four gold medals, two silvers and a bronze in Paralympic swimming in 2000 and 2004. PJC

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Organization Directory ADATH JESHURUN CEMETERY

Office: 217 East Patty Lane Monroeville, Pennsylvania 15146 Phone: 412-508-0817 Website: adathjeshuruncemeterypgh.org Email: office@ adathjeshuruncemeterypgh.org

President, Barbara Scheinberg; Vice President, Ted Heyman; Secretary, Gail Schmitt; Treasurer, Marty Elikan; Renee Abrams, William Berkowitz, Allan Dalfen, Paul Herman, Beverly Kalson, Earl Kaiserman, Sandy Goppman, Lou Kushner, Alan Sable, Stuart Neft; Susan Cohen, Office Administrator.

••• ADAT SHALOM B’NAI ISRAEL/BETH JACOB

A welcoming and inclusive synagogue serving the Fox Chapel & North Hills community 368 Guys Run Road (Fox Chapel Area) Cheswick, PA 15024-9463 Phone: 412-820-7000 Website: adatshalompgh.org

Email: lmigdal@bbyo.org

Lindsay Migdal, KMR BBYO

Regional

Director:

••• CONGREGATION BET TIKVAH

A welcoming, queer-centric, independent minyan.

P.O. Box 10140 Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Hotline: 412-256-8317 Website: bettikvah.org Email: info@bettikvah.org

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BETH EL CONGREGATION OF THE SOUTH HILLS

1900 Cochran Road Pittsburgh, PA 15220 Phone: 412-561-1168 Website: bethelcong.org Email: steve@bethelcong.org

The Carnegie Shul

Alex Greenbaum, Rabbi; Amy Greenbaum, Assoc. Rabbi / Edu. Dir.; Steve Hecht, Exec.

Dir.; Warren Sufrin, Pres.; Susie Seletz, Exec.

V.P.; Judy Balk, Admin. V.P.; Robby Greenberger, Ed. V.P.; David Sirota, Fin. V.P.; Geri Recht, Fundraising V.P.; Judi Kline, Membership V.P.; Stacey Reibach,Volunteerism V.P.; Beth Pomerantz, Fin. Secy.; Neal Ash, Asst. Fin. Secy.; Bill Spatz, Treas.; Cindy Platto, Asst. Treas.; Karen Balk, Rec. Secy.; Lynda Abraham-Braff, Sisterhood Pres.; Jeremy Broverman with Steve Haberman, Men’s Club Co-Pres.; Sadie Kalathunkal, Youth Advisor •••

Website: thecarnegieshul.org Email: mrmike7777@yahoo.com

Visit us Downtown. All are welcome.

Amy Himmel, President; David Lazear, 1st VP; Laurie Singer, 2nd VP; Michele Fryncko, Recording Secretary; Jill Langue, Asst.

Recording Secretary; Jim Grenen, Treasurer; Marshall Dayan, Asst. Treasurer; DeDe Fink, Sisterhood President; Yaier Lehrer, Rabbi; Lisa Rothstein, Executive Director; Casey Shapira, Preschool Director; David Haviv, Religious School Director.

••• AHAVATH ACHIM CONGREGATION

Lawrence Block, Pres; Richard D’Loss, 1st; V.P.; Paul Spivak, 2nd V.P.; Elaine Rosenfield, Secy.; Joel Roteman, Treas.; Rosalyn Hoffman, Michael Roteman, Marcia Steinberger, Irwin Norvitch, and Wendy Panizzi, Board of Directors.

••• AIPAC — THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Phone: 410-223-4190 Website: aipac.org Email: myaffe@aipac.org

Michael Yaffe, AIPAC Pittsburgh Director.

••• ALEPH INSTITUTE — NORTH EAST REGION

Hyman & Martha Rogal Center 5804 Beacon St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-0111; Fax: 412-521-5948 Website: alephne.org Email: rabbivogel@alephne.org, info@alephne.org

Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel, Exec. Dir.; Marty Davis, Chairman of the Board; Eytan Rosenthal CPA, Treasurer; Bill Rudolph, Estelle Comay Esq., Charles Saul Esq., Jon Pushinsky Esq., Charles Perlow Esq., Neil Notkin, & Jim Leiber Esq. Board members ••• AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY

Advancing Innovation for Israel and the World 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 120 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 Phone: 248-593-6760 Website: ats.org Email: joey@ats.org

Joey Selesny, Regional Director East Central Region.

••• BBYO KEYSTONE MOUNTAIN REGION

(KMR) c/o JCC South Hills 5738 Darlington Road Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-945-7145 Website: bbyo.org/region/keystone

BETH HAMEDRASH HAGODOL/ BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE

810 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Phone: 412-471-4443

Stanley J. Savage, Rabbi; Ira Michael Frank, Pres.; Sherman Weinstein, 1st V.P.; Lee Oleinick, 2nd V.P.; Joe Goldston, Secy; Brian Cynamon, Treas.; Stephen A. Neustein, Esq.; Assist. Treas.; Arlene Neustein, Sisterhood Pres.

••• BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION

265 North Ave. Washington, PA 15301 Phone: 724-225-7080 Website: mybethisrael.org Email: office@bethisraelsynagogue.com Facebook: facebook.com/ bethisraelsynagogue

President, The Hon. Gary Gilman; Vice President, Marc Simon; Treasurer, David S. Posner, Esq.; Secretary, Marilyn Posner; Immediate Past President, Richard S. Pataki, M.D.: Rabbi, David C. Novitsky, Esq. Board of Directors: Nicholas Bykowetz, Richard Littman; Stephen Richman, Esq.; Dana J. Shiller, Beth Tully, Fred Weber.

••• BETH SAMUEL JEWISH CENTER

A warm and diverse Jewish community serving the needs of Western Allegheny, Beaver and Butler counties.

810 Kennedy Drive Ambridge, PA 15003 Phone: 724-266-5238 Website: bethsamuel.org Email: bethsamueloffice@comcast.net

Cantor Rena Shapiro, Spiritual Leader; Barbara Wilson, Director; William Sinder, Pres.; Lauren McLeod, V.P,; Karen Beaudway, Past Pres.; Nicole Homich, Secy.’ Sara Braun & Dan Weisberg, co-Fin. V.P.; Sharon Camhi, Trustee 1; Jerry DeSena, Trustee 2.

••• CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM

Enriching lives through community, lifelong Jewish learning and spiritual growth!

5915 Beacon St.

Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-2288; Fax: 412-421-5923 Website: bethshalompgh.org Email: office@bethshalompgh.org

Seth Adelson, Rabbi; Debby Firestone, Pres.; Kate Rothstein, Executive V.P.; Alan Kopolow, V.P.; Jordan Fischbach, V.P.; Dan Eisner, Secretary, Fred Newman, Treasurer; David Horvitz, Immediate Past Pres; Rob Menes, Executive Director; Rabbi Larry Freedman, Dir. of JJEP; Hilary Huelsmann, Dir. ELC; Marissa Tait, Youth Program Dir.; Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Dir. of Derekh & Youth Tefillah; Dale Caprara, Controller; Judy Kayam, Bookkeeper; Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Dir.; Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant; Rabbi Mark N. Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar; Ira Frank, Men’s Club Pres.; Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Pres.; Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator; Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Mgr. •••

CHABAD OF THE SOUTH HILLS

Bringing the Joy and Relevance of Judaism to the South Hills.

1701 McFarland Road Pittsburgh, PA 15216 Website: chabadsh.com Email: rabbi@chabadsh.com Phone: 412-344-2424; 412-512-3046

Rabbi Mendel & Batya Rosenblum, Co-Directors; Mrs. Mussie Rosenblum, Event Coordinator; Mrs. Barb Segel, Development Coordinator.

••• CHABAD OF SQUIRREL HILL

1700 Beechwood Blvd.

Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-3561 Website: chabadpgh.com

Rabbi Yisroel and Chani Altein.

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CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BORDERS

CONGREGATION B’NAI ABRAHAM

A warm, caring, inclusive community.

Open Minds. Open Hearts.

Providing Holocaust and Israel Education for teachers from all frameworks.

519 N. Main St. Butler, PA 16001 Phone: 724-287-5806 Website: congbnaiabraham.org Email: congbnaiabraham@zoominternet.net

P.O. Box 60144 Pittsburgh, PA 15211 Phone: 412-915-9182 Website: classroomswithoutborders.org Email: tgur@classroomswithoutborders.org

Cantor Michal Gray-Schaffer, Spiritual Leader; Eric Levin, President; Christine Hood, V. P.; Shirley Grossman, Sec.; Roberta Gallagher, Religious School Director; Emily Csonka, Youth Group Leader.

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Dr. Zipora (Tsipy) Gur, Executive Director; Melissa Haviv, Assistant Director; Justin Kahanov Vellucci, Communications Manager; Jamie Campbell, Wheeling Program Coordinator; Robin Monroe, Administrative Assistant; Board of Directors: Robert Glimcher, Chair; Lisa Allen; Michael Bernstein; Estelle Comay; Laura Penrod Kronk; Robert Mallet; Victor Mizrahi; Alex Paul; Charles S. Perlow; Louis B. Plung; Debbie Resnick; James Rudolph; Hilary S. Tyson.

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B’NAI EMUNOH CHABAD

4315 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-1477 Website: bechabad.org Email: bechabad@gmail.com

Elchonon Friedman, Rabbi; Yehuda Cowen, Pres.; Shalom Leeds, VP & Gabbi; Chanani Saks, Treas.; Ivan Engel, Rec. Secy.; Joel Pirchesky, Past Pres.

••• CHABAD OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

5120 Beeler St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-772-8505; Fax: 877-286-1434 Website: chabadofcmu.com Email: Rabbi@chabadofcmu.com

Rabbi Shlomo and man, Co-Directors.

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Chani

Silver-

CHABAD HOUSE ON CAMPUS

Serving the needs of the Jewish college community.

Phone: 412-683-7770; Fax: 412-681-7770 Website: chabadpgh.org Email: home@chabadpgh.org

Rabbi Shmuel, Sara Weinstein, Co-Directors.

Rabbi Shua, Shoshana Hoexter, Co-Program Directors.

••• CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF MONROEVILLE

2715 Mosside Blvd.

Monroeville, PA 15146 Website: JewishMonroeville.com Email: Chabad@JewishMonroeville.com

Rabbi Mendy and iro, Co-Directors.

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Esther

Schap-

ROHR CHABAD JEWISH CENTER

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY 424 Brockway Ave. Morgantown, WV 26501 Phone: 304-599-1515 Website: JewishWV.org

COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL

6424 Forward Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-1100; Fax: 412-521-4511 Website: comday.org

Avi Baran Munro, Head of School; Bari Weinberger, CFO; Tzippy Mazer, Head of Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Mark Minkus, Head of Intermediate School and Middle School; Andrea Erven-Victoria, Head of Early Childhood and Lower School; Sarah DeWitt, Enrollment Management Dir.; Jenny Jones, Institutional Advancement and Donor Relations; Jordan Hoover, Technology and Strategic Initiatives Dir.; Jennifer Bails, Marketing and Communications Dir.; Derek Smith, Pres.; Debbie Resnick, Immed.

Past Pres.; Eva Gelman, Vice President; Stav Gil, Treas.; Evan Indianer, Secy.

••• CONGREGATION DOR HADASH

Pittsburgh’s Reconstructionist Congregation 4905 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-422-5158 Website: dorhadash.net

President, Donna Coufal; VP of Ritual, Judy Yanowitz; VP of Administration, Melvin Melnick; Secretary, Beth Silver; Treasurer, Jim Silver; Adult Education, Deborah Prise; VP of Youth Education, Dana Kellerman; Life Events, Pamela Weiss; Social Action, Eve Wider; Social Events, Judy Grumet and Ellen Berne; Membership, Janey Zeilinger; Programming, Jean Clickner and Roz Becker; Member-at-Large, Kimberly Latta; Communications Chair, Jim Lenkner; Principal, Dor Hadash Religious School, Karen Morris.

Rabbi Zalman and Hindy Gurevitz, Co-Directors.

Please see Organizations, page 10

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Organization Directory Organizations: Continued from page 10 CONGREGATION EMANU-EL ISRAEL

To support Judaism and the welfare of our community 222 North Main St. Greensburg, PA 15601 Phone: 724-834-0560; Fax: 724-834-7650 Website: ceigreensburg.org

Email: office@cei-greensburg.org Sara Rae Perman, Rabbi Emeritus; Irene Rothschild, Pres. & Admin.; Dan Reiter, 1st V.P.; Julie Goldstein, Treas.; Virginia Lieberman, Secy.; Marion Slone, Sisterhood Pres.; Gary Moidel, Men’s Club Pres.; Robert Halden, Archives; Terri Katazman & Virginia Lieberman, Caring; Shoshana Halden, Edu.; Esther Glasser, Endowment; Shirley Shpargel, Library; Robert Slone, Long-Range Planning; Mary Ellen Kane, Membership; Richard Virshup, Physical Properties; Shoshana Halden, Ritual Practices; Terri Katzman & Mary Ellen Kane, Social Action; Dan Reiter, Mitch Goldstein & Zach Virshup, I.T. ••• FORWARD SHADY APARTMENTS

Owned by Forward Housing Corporation and managed by the award-winning SeniorCare Network, this 117-unit supportive senior housing community offers efficiency, one and two bedroom apartments in a convenient location along Forward Avenue in Squirrel Hill.

5841 Forward Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-3065 Fax: 412-521-6413 Email: forwardshady@srcare.org

John Spear, Pres.; Donna Kruman, V.P.; Terry Lerman, Treas.

••• THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH

Building inclusive community for those with special needs, one friendship at a time.

1922 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-224-4440 Website: fcpgh.org Email: info@fcpgh.org

Rabbi Mordy Rudolph, Exec. Dir.; Rivkee Rudolph, Dir.; Dr. Laura Marshak, Prof.

Advisor; Ann Grandinetti, Development Assoc.; Leighann Calamera, Grant and Corporate Development Assoc.; Hayli Firtell, Teen Coord.; Julia Averbach, Family Coord.; Sara Cato, Dir. of Operations; Adina Waren, Dir. of Programs; Gila Zimbovsky, Office Manager; Paige Eddy, Friends on the Town Program Coordinator; Alexa Dines, Program Coordinator; Emily Vogt, Friends on the Town Program Associate; Esti Weiss, Front Desk Assoc.; Cara Paolicelli, CORO Fellow; Board of Dir.’s: Alan Gordon, Chair; Dr. Tracy Levy, Immediate Past Chair; Aaron Morgenstern, V. Chair; Mollie Hanna Lang, Secretary; David Khani, Treas.; Michael Bernstein, Assistant Treas.; David Goldberg, Ina Gumberg, Lee Hurwitz, Kathy Klein, Natalie Moritz, Dorothy Pollon, Rachel Petrucelli, Andrew Rabin, Geri Cohen Recht, Joe Reschini, Cindy Vayonis.

••• GEMILAS CHESED CONGREGATION

1400 Summit St. White Oak, PA 15131 Phone: 412-678-8859; Fax: 412-678-8850 Website: gemilaschesed.org Email: gemilaschesed@gmail.com

Rabbi Moshe Russell, Interim Rabbi; Gershon Guttman, Pres.; vice president Larry Perl; Bruce Gelman, secretary; Richard Bollinger, Treas.; Gabbaim are Gershon Guttman and Alan Balsam.

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HADASSAH MIDWEST

60 Revere Drive, Suite 800 Northbrook, IL 60062 847.205.1900 Hadassah.org/midwest midwest@hadassah.org

Lynn Furness, President, Hadassah Central States; Ronna Ash, Managing Director, Hadassah Midwest ••• HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION

4307 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-422-8868 Website: hflapgh.org

Shelley Daniels, Pres.; Nancy Israel, 1st V.P.; Jesse Hirshman, 2nd V.P.; Laurie Moritz, Treas./Secy.; Ellen Clancy, Dir. of Operations; Aviva Lubowsky, Dir. of Marketing & Development.

••• HILLEL ACADEMY

5685 Beacon St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-8131; Fax: 412-521-5150

Daniel Kraut, Esq., CEO; Rabbi Sam Weinberg, Principal & Ed. Dir.; Ella Ziff, Dir. of Student Services; Elky Langer, Assistant Principal K-4; Rabbi Oren Levy, Assistant Principal K-4; Yikara Levari, Assistant Principal 5th12th-grade girls; Rabbi Yisroel Smith, Assistant Principal Boys High School; Kira Sunshine, Dir. of Admissions; Ruth Pohuly, Early Childhood Dir.; Sarah Hartman, Fin. Mgr.; Selma Aronson, Exec. Admin. to the CEO. ••• THE EDWARD AND ROSE BERMAN HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER

The Mildred and Joseph Stern Building

4607 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-621-8875; Fax: 412-621-8861 Website: hilleljuc.org Email: info@hilleljuc.org

Daniel Marcus, Exec. Dir. & CEO; Danielle Kranjec, Senior Jewish Educator; Rachel Cohen, Dir. of Operations; Jennifer Poller, Dir. of Development; Lori Ferguson, Development Coordinator; Ariel Walovitch, Dir. of Engagement; Risa Fruchter, Janet L. Swanson Dir. of Jewish Student Life at the University of Pittsburgh; Alex Zissman, Dir. of Jewish Student Life at Carnegie Mellon University; Andrey Kogan, Israel Fellow; Michael Warshafsky, Board Co-Chair; Matthew Weinstein, Board Co-Chair; Aaron Leaman, V. Chair Fin.; Mitchell Letwin, V. Chair Development; Adrienne Indianer, V. Chair Board Governance/HR; Katie Whitlatch, Immed. Past Chair.

••• HOLOCAUST CENTER OF PITTSBURGH

826 Hazelwood Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-1500 Email: info@hcpgh.org Website: hcofpgh.org

Dr. Roy “Jake” Jacobson, Board Chair; Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, Director; Board Members: Dr. Barbara Burstin, Dr. Tim Crain, Marc Friedberg, Paul Guggenheimer, Lori Guttman, Dr. Rachel Kranson, Debra Levenson, Dr. Melissa Marks, Dr. Manuel Reich, Harry Schneider, Barbara Shapira, Benjamin Simon, Paula Spiro, David Sufrin, Hal Waldman, Roberta Weissburg, Dr. Yolanda Avram Willis.

••• ISRAEL BONDS

6507 Wilkins Ave., Suite 101 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-362-5154; 1-800-362-2669 Email: Pittsburgh@israelbonds.com

Julian Elbling, Campaign Chair; Marian Ungar Davis, Advisory Council Chair, Ellen

Teri Kaplan Goldstein, Women’s Division Chair; Adrienne Indianer, Registered Representative; Patty Minto, Office Manager; Harold F. Marcus, Executive Director.

••• ISRAEL HERITAGE ROOM

University of Pittsburgh Susie Rosenberg Phone: 412-298-6698 Website: pitt.edu/~natrooms Email: Susan.b.rosenberg@gmail.com

Jillian F. Zacks, Esq, Board Chair; Eric J. Perelman, Carol Robinson, Vice Chairs; Scott I. Americus, Treasurer; David R. Lassman, Secretary; Peter J. Lieberman, At-Large; Jordan Golin, Psy.D., President & CEO. ••• JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH

Susan Binstock Rosenberg, Chair; Ruth Gelman, Eileen Lane, Dr. Alex Orbach, Judith Robinson, Dr. Adam Shear, Marcia Weiss, Vice Chairs; Ruth Gelman, Treas.; Dr. Nancy Glynn, Corr. & Fin. Secy.; Sylvia Busis, Nancy L. Shuman, Hon. Chairs.

••• JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND

2000 Technology Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Phone: 412-681-8000 Website: jewishpgh.org

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Headlines Netroots panel equates Zionism and white supremacy — NATIONAL —

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hile presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kristin Gillibrand and Julián Castro drew the national attention at the 14th annual progressive gathering Netroots Nation in Philadelphia last weekend, a concurrent panel discussion called “Racial Justice Has No Borders: Embedding Palestinian Rights in the 2020 Agenda” raised eyebrows with several controversial remarks, including an assertion by Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill that Zionism is “a white supremacist, ethno-nationalist project.”

Netroots Nation, a project of DailyKos that’s supported by a raft of left-liberal organizations and the Democratic National Committee, attracts thousands of organizers, consultants and politicians each year to its annual convention. This year’s iteration, held at the Philadelphia Convention Center from July 11-14, featured more than 70 panels on a variety of topics, including the one where Hill made his comments.

The discussion in question took place at a July 12 panel called “Racial Justice Has No Borders: Embedding Palestinian Rights in the 2020 Agenda,” led by Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. The panel also featured Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Sandra Tamari, acting director of the Adalah Justice Project; Noura Erakat, a legal scholar and human rights lawyer; and Hill, professor and the Steve Charles Chair in Media Cities and Solutions at Temple.

It was during the Q&A after the panel that Hill — who was the subject of international controversy last fall after he used the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which resulted in his firing from CNN — made some assertions that made headlines. In response to a question from the audience about how young journalists can tell the stories of Palestinians while working for mainstream news organizations, Hill said: “They’re like, ‘I want to work for Fox, or I want to work for ABC or NBC or whoever. I want to tell these stories,’” he said.

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“You have to make choices about where you want to work. And if you work for a Zionist organization, you’re going to get Zionist content. And no matter how vigorous you are in the newsroom, there are going to be two, three, four, 17, or maybe one powerful person — not going to suggest a conspiracy — all news outlets have a point of a view.

And if your point of view competes with the point of view of the institution, you’re going to have challenges.”

Writing about this moment for Jewish Insider, Senior Political Reporter Ben Jacobs suggested that Hill was implying that major media outlets were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content.”

Hill disputed that characterization in a

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tweet, writing, “This is not what I said, nor what I believe. The idea of ‘Jewish controlled media’ is an anti-Semitic narrative that I wholly and unequivocally reject. My instinct is to ignore this, but I care too much about the subject to do so.”

Later in the Q&A, when the panel was asked to clarify the equation of Zionism with white supremacy, Erakat said that, in choosing Zionism as a colonial project, rather than one of self-determination — Herzl did this “without shame,” she said — Jews made themselves white. Zionism was a bid to become like the Europeans, she said, and over the course of Israel’s history, certain choices in foreign policy further solidified that bid.

“The choice that Zionism culminates in, in my opinion,” she said, “was a choice for Jews to become white.” She pledged to continue to fight anti-Semitism without “hanging it on Zionism as a linchpin to that liberation.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the AntiDefamation League, responded to Hill’s remarks in a statement to Jewish Insider. “Zionism is nothing like white supremacy,” Greenblatt said.

“Anyone who offensively claims Zionism is a white supremacist project is ignorant of the tremendous diversity of modern Israel and seeks to negate the millennia-old connection of Jews to the Land of Israel.” PJC Jesse Bernstein is a reporter for the Jewish Exponent, a Chronicle-affiliated publication.

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Opinion The real Jeffrey Epstein story — EDITORIAL —

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effrey Epstein is a bad man. But he’s not bad because he is a billionaire who lives large, and he’s not bad because of his famous and dubious friends, political buddies and philanthropic partners — although, from the breathless press reports about him over the past week, it’s hard to get past those associations.

Epstein is a bad man because he exploited underage girls — children — and apparently did so for a long time. He plead guilty to soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14 more than a decade ago, and was able arrange a slap on the wrist deal in Miami, which landed him in jail for 13 months, during which time he was free to travel daily to and from his office. But now, Epstein is being charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking in a wide-ranging “sex pyramid scheme,” and the likely consequences will be far more severe.

The allegations against Epstein are chilling. Those charges are a direct result of a groundbreaking investigative report published by the Miami Herald last

p Alan Dershowitz, right, represented sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a controversial 2008 plea deal.

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November that re-opened the Epstein matter with graphic detail. The report identified more than 80 women who claim to be victims of Epstein — part of “a large, cult-like network of underage girls” whom he coerced “into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day.”

While there is plenty of grist for a salacious documentary about the Epstein story, and there will be endless finger-pointing among those previously associated with him, the important focus needs to be on the crimes with which he is charged and the serious devastation of childhood sex abuse.

Take the case of Courtney Wild, now 31,

who was allegedly abused by Epstein when she was 14. Her trauma is heartbreaking. Her life wasn’t just interrupted — it was derailed.

According to the Miami Herald: “Before she met Epstein, Wild was captain of the cheerleading squad, first trumpet in the band and an A-student at Lake Worth Middle School.

After she met Epstein, she was a stripper, a drug addict and an inmate at Gadsden Correctional Institution.”

According to Wild, “Jeffrey preyed on girls who were in a bad way, girls who were basically homeless. He went after girls who he thought no one would listen to and he was right.”

Others told similar stories of being victimized when they were children. It started with massage sessions, and then, “Epstein would molest the girls, paying them premiums for engaging in oral sex and intercourse, and offering them a further bounty to find him more girls.”

Even if Epstein sits in jail for the rest of his life, there is no way these women can fully recover what he heartlessly stole from them.

Those tragic victims are the true story here. We mourn the ruin of their youth and the theft of their innocence, and we pray for their recovery. PJC

I can’t let it go: The aging crisis that’s not being addressed Guest Columnist Bob Roth

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’m old-school: I still get the newspaper delivered — primarily, because it’s our therapy dog Lacey’s morning routine to get the paper and bring it to me. How could I interfere with her sense of purpose? Besides, I like turning pages and I don’t really mind a little smudgy newsprint on my fingers.

But I’m not out of step with news delivered electronically either, and I’m a big fan of podcasts. I really love the segment “Can’t Let It Go” from the NPR Politics Podcast. Once a week, usually three or four of the correspondents talk about something from the current week that they “just can’t let go, politics or otherwise.”

I have my own list of things I can’t let go, and my hope is that it they’ll become yours as well.

The year 2030 marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 National Population Projections. By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. This will expand the size of the older population so that one in every five residents will be of retirement age. By the year 2030, there will be twice as many people over 80 as there were in 2016, and the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S. is people older than 90.

So why haven’t any of the 2020 presidential candidates addressed the aging crisis?

This rapid growth of the older population contrasts with an almost flat youth population (under age 20) and moderate increase in the working-age (20–64) population projected over the same period. In a nutshell:

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The potential pool of family caregivers will not sustain the growing demand for care.

Family caregivers make up a silent support army — without them, health and social systems within our aging societies would be absolutely overwhelmed. Compounding pressure on this unpaid labor force is a shortage of paid caregivers. These unsung heroes who tenderly care for our aging population with skill and compassion perform an important job that our society does not sufficiently value.

It is time to move issues of longevity and aging to the political mainstage. Congress and the White House have continuously kicked the can down the road, effectively waiting for the issue to become a crisis before they deal with it. We need to ask our candidates how they are going to affect change. Addressing health care is not the only facet to addressing the needs of our aging population.

Normal aging increases the incidence of disabilities. Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older had at least one disability and need daily assistance, according to a

U.S. Census Bureau report that covered 2008–2012. Of those 15.7 million people, two-thirds of them say they had difficulty with walking or climbing.

Difficulty with independent living, such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping, was the second-most cited disability, followed by serious difficulty in hearing, cognitive difficulty, difficulty bathing or dressing, and serious difficulty seeing.

Do you know that less than 2% of our housing stock is built to be safe and accessible for elders? One-third of our elderly population fall each year and falls are the leading cause of death in people over 65. Seventy-five percent of all emergency room and urgent care visits for people over 65 are the result of falls.

Question to the candidates: How can our communities become more aging-friendly?

Routes of public transportation were created with young workers, not retirees, in mind.

How can we remedy social isolation due to lack of transportation options? Speaking of social isolation, one-third of our population

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65 and older lives home alone. It is projected that this number could climb to close to 50% by 2030. Social isolation is said to be the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

The pro-life/pro-choice debate appears in the news daily. The caregiving crisis is a woman’s issue that faces women during and beyond their childbearing years. The caregiving crisis disproportionately affects women. More than 88% of family caregivers are women. And a startling new statistic is that nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women.

Half of the family caregivers work full-time in addition to their family responsibilities for caregiving, with 18% of caregivers leaving their full-time job to care for a family member. The impact on the caregiver is loss of health insurance, loss of retirement benefits, diminished assets and lost credits toward Social Security.

Is aging not tweet-worthy, Washington?

Where is the Aging Pride Parade? Mr./Ms. Candidate, what is your biggest idea for what America’s 68 million retirees could be doing to contribute to our society?

In 1961, JFK committed to landing on the moon in the next decade. We need the commitment to proclaim a bold goal of stopping Alzheimer’s as our moonshot.

Calling out to my favorite podcasts: To NPR’s “Planet Money,” why are we not talking about the economic impact of the silver tsunami? To the New York Times’ “The Daily,” where is your deep dive into these issues? To my daughter, Samantha-Jo, a Washington, D.C., broadcast journalist covering Congress: Please, for your dear old dad, ask the tough questions. I can’t let it go! PJC Bob Roth is the managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also the author of the column “Aging Today,” which runs in the Phoenix Jewish News.

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Opinion To pack or not pack: Why isn’t aliyah part of the conversation?

Guest Columnist Dorit Sasson

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blog caption shows my son walking along the Tel Dan Nature Reserve with his classmates on a long-awaited graduation trip to Israel. Just a few days before leaving the States, I found myself grappling with worry: Would he be safe? The best image would put my fears to rest: In it, he leaned into the Dan Stream with a red shirt that said “Dunk It,” his red hair fully immersed. Just 10 minutes away was our kibbutz. My longings amplified. My heart’s home.

My husband and I left Israel in 2007 because of terror attacks. After the horrific shooting at the Tree of Life building and the Chabad synagogue in Poway six months later, I felt more vulnerable than ever. I wanted to feel safe again in Israel even though I was triggered by the memories of surviving the second Israel-Lebanon war in 2006 as a young first-time mother.

In the wake of the post-shooting Pittsburgh and Poway dialogue, I struggle daily with an agonizing choice: to stay or return? In the same way the Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson encouraged every Jew to be in Israel, that there was special protection from God, I knew that Israel was the safest place

my grandparents found refuge during the darkest days of humanity.

Struggling for clear-cut answers, I hoped the great gedolim, sages, would offer enlightenment that I might take as discussion fodder. Online, I noted an even more divided approach. From a biblical perspective, the Rambam omitted the obligation to move to Israel in his list of 613 mitzvahs since this obligation was only relevant during the times of the Second Temple when Jews controlled the land. Another perspective came from Rabbi Chaim Kohen, who in Tosafos (Kesubos 110b) emphasizes “the mitzvah to live in Israel does not apply nowadays, for there are many mitzvos and prohibitions that exist only in Eretz Yisroel and it is truly difficult to diligently fulfill all those obligations.”

I tried asking my community. Many agreed with me that as a Jew, it’s safer to be in Israel.

The ever-present notion still reigned: Since we are still in exile, we should mobilize, bond and connect with each other. While some identify with aliyah as a form of escape, I’m starting to realize that it’s an illusion to assume that our “safety bubble” for American Jews will always be there. We’ve now joined the ranks of anti-Semitism that Europe has been confronting. Under the Law of Return, aliyah will redefine our collectiveness as Jews in a Jewish state that historically bound the nation. No matter where we go, we would always have the support of my Jewish/IDF

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— LETTERS — Just ask We were disappointed and saddened to open the Jewish Chronicle to an article where four male rabbis of varied denominations were interviewed about Jewish mourning customs (“What to expect at a shiva,” July 12). When you present only men as experts on Jewish tradition in this newspaper, you are fostering a perception that female rabbis are less valued and less authoritative than our male colleagues.

Almost 10 years ago, large numbers of Jewish male colleagues joined the Men As Allies program with Advancing Women Professionals and Shifra Bronznick in a pledge to refuse to participate in all-male panels. Most recently, the head of the National Institutes of Health issued a statement that he would refuse to participate in a setting where only males were given voice as experts. Also noteworthy, in 2014, leaders in Global Policy on Peace and Security adopted similar measures to ensure the inclusion of women’s voices on the global stage as it relates to peacemaking. We expect the Jewish Chronicle to assume a similar stance, and move away from all-male conversations to conversations that include women’s voices in articles that discuss Jewish ritual, law, custom and tradition.

Pittsburgh is blessed to have 11 ordained female rabbis. Turn to any of us for comment in an article about shiva, and you will find pearls of wisdom gleaned from our combined 150-plus years of service in the rabbinate. Together we have conducted hundreds of funerals and shiva minyanim, and taught thousands about the customs of mourning.

Next time, ask us.

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In her guest column of July 5, “Pride and inclusion mark step toward equality,” Lisa Goldstein discusses the importance of inclusion for LGBTQ Jews, their families, disabled Jews and LGBTQ Jews with disabilities. We couldn’t agree more.

That’s why, since we moved here in 1997, we have been members of Bet Tikvah, a welcoming, queer-centric, independent minyan that has been in Pittsburgh since 1988. Bet Tikvah is one of seven LGBTQ-centric synagogues in North America. At Bet Tikvah, we have found an example of what Goldstein describes. We are happy to hear she is finding that at Temple Emanuel as well.

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Jewish community? to be as a Jew and even more so after the attacks. Why sacrifice that kind of safety and security for an uncertain future in America?

Following the Tree of Life shooting, I walked around Squirrel Hill with a “Stronger Than Hate” T-shirt as if to summon heavenly protection. Openly identifying as an American Jew filled me with pride. No one was talking about aliyah as the most obvious and logical possible option to anti-Semitic violence.

After attacks in London and Paris, I’d often wonder why Jews weren’t leaving for Israel in light of the physical dangers they face. Now that it seems the U.S. has joined Europe in terms of violence, have we become nonchalant and numb to violence that it’s better to suffer another attack? Has aliyah become too much of a biblical commandment to consider? Why aren’t we including the subject of aliyah in our conversations regarding the future of America’s Jewish community?

Online I noted how Americans had become so fearful for their safety they started removing their mezuzahs while others avoided synagogue at all costs. How sad it felt to want to flee a country where

guardian angels. Unlike Israel, terrorism and death in America has not secured our sense of protection.

Staying in America implies acculturation, and acculturation should not imply silence.

We shouldn’t fear openly identifying as Jewish. More than ever, we need to rise up, connect and nurture our fellow Jew. Although I cannot account for the perspective every single Jew in America, we as a Jewish nation in exile are still very much vulnerable.

So long as I continue to live on this side of the ocean, I will continue to grapple with these questions for which there are no easy answers.

I may have left Israel once upon a time, but by creating my own Israel dwelling for God in America, I am creating my own “aliyah” as a form of spiritual ascension. And that will, one day, bring me home. PJC Dorit Sasson, the author of Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces, is a writer who lives in Pittsburgh. Her book Sand and Steel: A Memoir of Longing and Finding Home is forthcoming.

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Accident and burn victims, heart surgery and organ transplant patients, and those being treated for cancer or sickle cell disease don’t get a holiday from treatments that are critical to their care. More donors are needed now for these friends, family and community members who depend on lifesaving blood products.

On behalf of the Red Cross, I’m inviting you to roll up a sleeve and give the gift of life.

About an hour of your donated time could lead to a lifetime of summer memories for patients in need.

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& Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center. “During that time, there was an established cemetery down the road.”

Four of the eight headstones have names inscribed that are still legible: Joe Mendlovitz (1902); Fanny Rittenberg Bergstein (1912); Morris Goldman (1919); and Isaac Rittenberg (1924). Relatives of those people, said Lidji, are buried in other cemeteries, which makes the existence of the Rippel Road cemetery even more perplexing.

“It’s a very interesting mystery that I would like to get to the bottom of,” Lidji said.

When Pudlowski contacted rabbis at Temple B’nai Israel and Gemilas Chesed prior to commencing his project, he got a “brief backdrop” concerning what they knew — or rather, what they suspected — to be the story behind the cemetery: A group of Gemilas Chesed members left the synagogue to form a break-away shul and obtained land to bury the newly formed congregation’s dead. The two groups got back together shortly thereafter, and the new synagogue ceased to exist.

Documentation for that theory is scant, and the records that have surfaced so far are not conclusive, according to Lidji. That documentation includes an excerpt from a manuscript called “Jewish History in Mckeesport,” discovered by longtime Gemilas Chesed member Claire Iszauk, which states that in around 1892 — about six years after the founding of Gemilas Chesed — a group broke away and called itself Ahavas Achim.

Gemilas Chesed’s president, Gershon Guttman, tells a similar story.

“I can’t swear this is the truth, but back when Gemilas Chesed started in 1886, there was a split off from the shul in 1890 or something,” he said. “I don’t know where it was located, or the differences. But they bought a piece of property for a cemetery. Then, a few years later, they got back together. There were a few casualties buried in that cemetery.

For many years, no one knew what it was, because Gemilas Chesed had a cemetery right down the street with similar dating on

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Pigeon Bagels’ relationship with Redhawk has been symbiotic. “I’ve been selling them bagels. Now I have an opportunity to buy their coffee.”

As for the microgreens, herbs, radishes and beets, Taube said, Tiny Seed Farm is “a small local farm that has the best vegetables,” said Taube. “We were neighbors at Bloomfield Market.”

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the stones. That was the story.”

Members of Gemilas Chesed have been aware of the cemetery’s existence for decades.

“I was involved with helping to clean up that cemetery when I was a teenager,” said Irv Luzer, 74. “Gemilas Chesed took it over by default, I think. There are no records I’m aware of. We don’t know what shul [the people buried there] are from.”

Luzer, who has been a member of the congregation since 1948 and is a past president, also remembers Rabbi Irvin Chinn burying holy books there, but acknowledged that “Gemilas Chesed hasn’t been keeping the cemetery up.”

Only minimal and sporadic maintenance has been provided to the site, according to Guttman, as the cemetery is difficult to access.

Jonathan Schachter, president of the Jewish Cemetery and Burial Association of Greater Pittsburgh, which is charged with taking care of cemeteries that are no longer managed by the congregations to which they were connected, is aware of the Rippel Road cemetery; he once came upon it accidentally when he was driving on Center Road on his way to the Boston Bike Trail.

“I saw headstones and I stopped,” Schachter said. He later went to take a closer look with Freda Spiegel, a member of B’nai Israel, and

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that congregation’s rabbi, Paul Tuchman.

“I climbed up on the wall,” Schachter said.

“The grass was very high. We were looking at it, and there were clearly Jewish headstones, mostly slender flat ones with Hebrew writing on them. I was involved with the JCBA by then, but I had no idea of anything about it.”

The Rippel Road cemetery is “ancient and has been abandoned for a long time,” said Rabbi Moshe Russell, spiritual leader of Gemilas Chesed. So when Pudlowski called to inquire about cleaning it up, “we said, go ahead.”

Pudlowski, mindful about not breaching Jewish laws or customs, sought advice from a Jewish friend in Israel, as well as from Rabbi Daniel Lapin in Seattle, an Orthodox rabbi who heads the American Alliance of Jews and Christians.

“I told him [Lapin] my intentions, and asked if I was going to violate any Jewish traditions going in as a non-Jew,” said Pudlowski. “He said, ‘You’re fine. Best of luck to you.’”

Pudlowski and the Lias tackled the property with chainsaws and weed whackers.

They spent several days just clearing it out.

“There were tons of weeds everywhere, and poison ivy everywhere, but not one of us got it,” Pudlowski said.

After clearing out the brush, they saw there were 10 graves on the property, and eight headstones, which they reset.

“A lot of the tombs were so cockeyed, we took all the footings off and used about 25 bags of cement and reset them all,” he said.

“Once we reset all the tombstones, we put thick plastic and 4 inches of mulch and river rock all around the graves because people put stones on tombstones. I said, ‘Let’s get river rock in case somebody wants to come by and pray for these people.’”

They also erected a two-level split-rail fence around the cemetery’s perimeter, as well as a three-foot Star of David, painted blue.

It took 10 days, working 12 hours each day, to finish the project. The cost for materials came to about $3,500. While Pudlowski received some donations and discounts from vendors, most of the funds used to finance the cemetery restoration came out of his own pocket.

“As far as I’m concerned, that’s holy ground,” Pudlowski said. “These are God’s chosen people. All I know is, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’s God, that’s my God, too.

The relationship, from my viewpoint, is I have to honor God.” Members of Gemilas Chesed were overwhelmed by the work Pudlowski and the Lias did.

“I went up there and I was totally flabbergasted,” said Luzer. “I didn’t believe what I was looking at.”

“Wow,” said Iszauk, who has been a member of Gemilas Chesed for more than 60 years. “It was quite an accomplishment.”

Pudlowski said he was just “trying to be obedient. If I can help you, good, and if I can learn something in the process, even better.”

For now, it is unclear who, if anyone, will continue to maintain the cemetery.

“I don’t think there is anyone going there regularly to visit,” said Guttman, adding that Gemilas Chesed has “no real plans” to keep it up.

“We will try to maintain it, but I don’t know what that means,” he said. “I don’t think it is our property.” PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

peppers will come from Tiny Seed Farm as well, she added.

Although those with a penchant for planting know the time for tomatoes is ripe, Taube is not forcing her shop to be “strictly seasonal” with its offerings.

“Since I can get good stuff from a farmer, I do base the menu off of that,” she said, but it won’t be entirely dependent on their availability.

Taube is excited to allow a larger demographic to enjoy her work, especially now that Pigeon Bagels is certified by the Vaad Harabanim of Greater Pittsburgh.

“It was really important to me to have a restaurant to serve the community,” she said, explaining the decision to get certified, adding, “and [I have ] my own interest in being able to provide food for my family that keeps kosher.”

Pigeon Bagels is open Wednesday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. PJC Adam Reinherz can be reached at areinherz@ pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Roselle Solomon and Dorothy Greenfield, Co-Presidents; Barbra Bowman-Labbie, Fundraising VP; Judy Kobell, Treasurer; Natalie Rosenbloom & Rhoda Judd, Recording Secretary; Barbara Caplan & Elinor Young, Correspondence Secretary; Gail Neft & Diana Spodek, American Affairs & Allied Activities VP; Gloria Elbling Gottlieb, Julian Elbling & Carole Wolsh, Spiritual Adoption/ Scholarship Chair; Lisa Steindel, Past President; Jackie Braslawsce, Executive Director.

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JOINT JEWISH EDUCATION PROGRAM (J-JEP)

Providing innovative learning experiences that inspire and prepare students to engage meaningfully in Jewish life 4905 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15213 Phone: 412-621-6566, ext. 111 Website: jjep.org Email: kate@jjep.org

Rabbi Larry Freedman, Director; Kate Kim, Assistant Director; Aaron Bisno, Rabbi; Sharyn Henry, Rabbi; Seth Adelson, Rabbi; Hal Coffey and Todd Roscoe, Co-Chairs.

••• KEHILLAH LA LA

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN

Pittsburgh Section

1620 Murray Ave. Website: ncjwpgh.org

Chuck Diamond, Rabbi and Executive Director; Fred Davis, President; Bobbi Gerson, Treasurer; Mickie Diamond, Secretary.

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Teddi Horvit, Pres.; Lynn Farber, V.P.; Paula Garret, Treas., Sarah Blask Rec. Secy.; Debbie Levy Green, Imm. Past. Pres.; Cristina Ruggiero, Exec. Dir.; Becky Abrams, Director of the Center for Women (a joint project of NCJW and the JWF); Misi Bielich, Director of the Children’s Rooms in the Courts; Meredith Brown, Manager of Programs and Operations; Lynn Tomasits, Director of Retail-Thriftique.

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5808 Beacon St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-420-0220; Fax: 412-420- 0224 Website: kollelpgh.org Email: info@kollelpgh.org

Email: NewCommunityCK@verizon.net Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ NCCKPGH/ Phone: 412-422-8044

An inclusive community engaging members in creative Jewish experiences Phone: 412-335-0298 Website: ravchuck.com Facebook: Kehillah La La Email: ravchuck@gmail.com, ravchuck@yahoo.com

KOLLEL JEWISH LEARNING CENTER

Rabbi Levi Langer, Rosh Kollel; Rabbi Doniel Schon, Associate Rosh Kollel; Philip Milch, Esq., President; Dr. Frank Lieberman, Vice President; Michael Kaminsky, Treasurer, Mark Sindler, Esq., Secretary; Rabbi Avrohom Rodkin, Director of Education; Stacie Stufflebeam, Director of Development ••• LADIES HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY

3459 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-648-6106; Fax: 412-692-2682 Website: lhas.net

President, Carole L. Kamin; Vice Presidents: Jackie Dixon, Peggy Smyrnes-Williams, Heather Ziccarelli; Secretaries: Denise Shipe, Judy Woffington; Treasurer, Cindy Kacerik; Directors: Brittany Holzer, Linda Melada, Jill Nolan, Denise Pochan, Ruth Rubenstein, Marcia Weiss, Gayle Zacharia.

••• LUBAVITCH CENTER SYNAGOGUE

Chabad of Western Pennsylvania

2100 Wightman St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (Corner of Hobart & Wightman streets) Phone: 412-422-7300

Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, Mr. Charles Saul, Esq., Pres.; Rabbi Yisroel Altein, Chabad of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Chanie Rosenblum, Women’s Organization; Mr. Shmuel Creeger, Men’s Mikvah; Mr. & Mrs. Hirsh Dlinn, Hospitality; Shul Committee: Shmuel Huebner, Hirsch Dlinn, Lior Shkedi, Yosef Goldberg.

••• NA’AMAT USA Pittsburgh Council (Formerly Pioneer Women)

A voice for Women and Children in Israel.

Committed to gender equality, religious pluralism, the status of women in and out of the home, the prevention of domestic violence and education.

We have moved from Tree of Life to Rodef Shalom - Please come visit us!!

4905 Fifth Ave (Inside Rodef Shalom) Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-5253 Cell: 412-303-5769

NEW COMMUNITY CHEVRA KADISHA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH

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NEW LIGHT CONGREGATION/ OHR CHADASH

Conservative, Egalitarian • Come Join Us 5915 Beacon Street Pittsburgh PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-1017

Website: newlightcongregation.org Jonathan Perlman, Rabbi; Barbara L. Caplan, Stephen Cohen, co-presidents; Marilyn Honigsberg, Administrative Assistant.; Janet Cohen, Corresponding Secretary; Debbie Salvin, Membership V.P.; Barbara Caplan, Social V.P.; Harold Caplan, Treasurer; Carl Solomon, Fin. Secy.; Ileen Portnoy, Secy.; Sharyn Stein, Sisterhood Pres.; Dan Stein, Men’s Club Pres.

••• PARKWAY JEWISH CENTER

Egalitarian Conservative Synagogue in the East Suburbs 300 Princeton Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15235 Phone: 412-823-4338; Fax: 412-823-4338 Website: parkwayjewishcenter.org Email: parkwayjc@verizon.net

Cantor Henry Shapiro, Spiritual Leader; Robert Caplan, Lynda Heyman, Hal Lederman, Executive Committee; Laurie Barnett Levine, Sisterhood Pres.

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Pittsburgh Association of Synagogue and Temple Executives

Leslie Hoffman (Temple Emanuel), President; Drew Barkley (Temple Sinai); Joel Don Goldstein, FSA (Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha); Steve Hecht, FSA, Treasurer (Beth El); Rob Menes (Beth Shalom), Jill Rook, (Adat Shalom); Bill Stein (Rodef Shalom).

••• PENN STATE HILLEL

114-117 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-3816 Email: Hillel@psu.edu Website: pennstatehillel.org

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Executive Director: Aaron Kaufman; Chair: Jill Epstein, First Vice President, Wealth Management, Wealth Advisor, UBS; ViceChair: Todd Goodstein, Owner, Company NameEnergy Transfer Solutions, Inc.; Secretary: Cindy Ruben; Treasurer/Finance Chair: James Ultman, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Penn State.

••• PITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE

Connecting Jewish Pittsburgh

5915 Beacon St., 5th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15217-2005 Phone: 412-687-1000; Fax: 412-521-0154 Website: pittsburghjewishchronicle.org Email: newsdesk@ pittsburghjewishchronicle.org

Evan Indianer, Chairman; Gayle R. Kraut, Secretary; Jonathan Bernstein, Treasurer; David Ainsman, Immediate Past Chairman; Gail Childs, Elizabeth F. Collura, Milton Eisner, Malke Steinfeld Frank, Tracy Gross, Richard J. Kitay, Cátia Kossovsky, Andi Perelman, David Rush, Charles Saul, Board Members; Jim Busis, CEO and Publisher; Liz Spikol, Acting Editor-in-Chief.

••• PLISKOVER ASSOCIATION, INC.

Pliskov Landsleit org, manages Pliskover Cemetery P.O. Box 8237 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Website: pliskover.com Email: pliskover@pliskover.com

Kimball Rubin, President; Bruce Ibe, 1st Vice President; Pam Ludin, Vice President of Budgets, Investments, and Audits; Carole Rubenstein, Vice President of Marketing; Steven Speck, Vice President of Membership; Honey Forman, Vice President Scholarship and Special Events; Jared Kaufman, Treasurer; Cheryl Kaufman, Financial Secretary; Joel Dresbold, Recording Secretary. Anastasia Abramson, Marilyn Brody, Marshall Cohen, Cookie Danovitz, Andrew Pearl, Frank H. Rubin, Paula Rubin, Gloria Shapiro, Ruth Stock Zober, Board members.

••• CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK

6318 Phillips Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-9786 Website: pzonline.org Email: info@pzonline.org

Rabbi Daniel Yolkut, Spiritual Leader; Dr. Louis Felder, Pres.; Joe Ungar, 1st V.P.; Richard Levine, 2nd V.P.; Nathaniel Scholnicoff, 3rd V.P.; Rabbi Ari Goldberg, Fin. Officer; Shifra Poznanski, Rec. Secy.; Todd Stufflebeam, Exec. Dir.; Shifra Poznanski, Stacie Stufflebeam & Naama Lazar, Sisterhood Presidents; Shmuel Isenberg, Men’s Club Pres.

••• RAUH JEWISH HISTORY PROGRAM & ARCHIVES AT THE SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER

Preserving the History of Western Pennsylvania’s Jews

1212 Smallman St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Phone: 412-454-6406 Websites: heinzhistorycenter.org/collections/ rauh-jewish-history-program-and-archives; jewishfamilieshistory.org; jewishhistoryhhc.org Email: RJArchives@heinzhistorycenter.org

Eric Lidji, Director, eslidji@heinzhistory-center.org; Adam Reinherz, Chair •••

Barry Roth, Secretary, Alec Stone, Treasurer, Debbie Winn-Horvitz, Hanna Steiner, Executive Director.

••• RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION

An Inclusive Reform Jewish Community, LGBTQ+ Safe Zone, & Fully Accessible Gathering Place 4905 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-621-6566; Fax: 412-687-1977 Website: rodefshalom.org Email: info@rodefshalom.org

Aaron B. Bisno, Rabbi; Sharyn H. Henry Rabbi; Dr. Walter Jacob, Rabbi Emeritus & Senior Scholar; Barry D .Weisband, Exec.

Dir.; Karen Brean, Pres.; David Kalson, Sr. V.P.; Alex Heit, Margot Cavalier, V.P.s; Bob Rosenthal, Secy.; Eric Kruman, Treas.; Joel Katz, Asst. Treas.; Dir.; Mimsie Leyton, Family Center Dir.; Rabbi Lawrence Freedman, Dir. of J-JEP; Amy Langham, Dir. of Finance & Admin; Stephanie Rex, Dir. of Communications & Marketing; Yael Eads, Dir. of Informal Jewish Life; Mayda Roth, Dir. of Development.

••• RODEF SHALOM BROTHERHOOD

Thomas Litman, Pres.; Peter Rosenfeld, Edward Mandell, V.P.s; Richard Meritzer, Brotherhood Treas.; Al Rosenfeld, Brotherhood Rec. Secy.

••• WOMEN OF RODEF SHALOM

Teri Cowan, Pres.; Sandie Brand, Marjorie Goldfarb, Goldie Katz, Elaine Rybski V.P.s; Terri Sterrett, Rec. Secy.; Sheila Werner, Assist. Rec. Secy.; Phyllis Feinert, Corr. Secy.; Emmeline Silk, Assist. Corr. Secy.; Gail Lefkowitz, Treas.; Nancy Rosenthal, Assist.

Treas.; Marilyn Caplan, Karen Hochberg, Marla Perlman, Ruth Rubenstein, Directors; Marion Damick, Parliamentarian.

••• SHAARE TORAH CONGREGATION

At the gateway to the community — come visit or join our family 2319 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-8855; Fax: 412-521-9938 Rabbi: 412-377-1769 Website: ShaareTorah.net Email: Office@ShaareTorah.net Email Sisterhood: dorseyhannahb@aol.com

Daniel E.Wasserman, Rabbi; Eliezer M. Shusterman, Assoc. Rabbi; Jonathan Young, Pres.; V.P. Adam Rothschild; Secy. Leah Ackner; Treasurer, Avram Avishai ; Brian Cynamon, Jay Luzer, Salomon Murciano and Bryan Shuman, Gabbaim; Sisterhood Pres., Hannah B. Dorsey.

••• TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL

A Friendly Progressive Congregation with Traditional Values 2025 Cypress Drive White Oak, PA 15131 Phone: 412-678-6181; Fax: 412-896-6513 Website: tbiwhiteoak.org Email: tbioffice@gmail.com

President: Lou Anstandig; Vice President: Dick Leffel; Secretary: Lindi Kendal; Treasurer: Steve Klein; Office Manager: Lisa C. Schonberger; Rabbi: Paul Tuchman.

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RIVERVIEW TOWERS APARTMENTS

TEMPLE DAVID CONGREGATION

52 Garetta St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-521-7876; Fax: 412-325-7041 Website: riverviewtowers.com

4415 Northern Pike Monroeville, PA 15146

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Amy Weiss, Chair, Mitchell Pakler, Vice,

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Kline, Member at Large, Rebecca Mason, Member at Large; Seth Corbin, Member at Large; Mike Daninhirsch, Men’s Club; Julia Cohen & Kristi Karsh, Women of Ohav.

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Continued from page 15 Phone: 412-372-1200; Fax: 412-372-0485 Weiger Religious School 412-372-1206 Website: templedavid.org Email: tdoffice@templedavid.org

TEMPLE SINAI

Barbara AB Symons, Rabbi; Jason Z. Edelstein, Rabbi Emeritus; Beverly Reinhardt, Office Mgr.; Rabbi Barbara Symons, Dir. of Education; Barbara Fisher, School Admin.

Assist.; Reena Goldberg, Pres.;Vacant, Exec.

V.P.; Harvey Wolfe, Fin. V.P.; Melissa Cooper, Religious School V.P.; Bruce Antonoff, Worship & Ritual V.P.; Kay Liss, Past Pres.; Brett Pechersky, Comptroller; Jay Goodman, Rec. Secy.; Alisa Chotiner, Treas.; Mary Bendorf, Fin. Liaison.

••• TEMPLE EMANUEL OF SOUTH HILLS

Emanu-El- “God is with Us” ... in our community ... in our families ... in our words and deed, hearts and souls

Aaron C. Meyer, Senior Rabbi; Jessica Locketz, Rabbi and Director of Education; Mark Joel Mahler, Rabbi Emeritus; Iris Harlan, Early Childhood Development Center Director; Leslie Hoffman, Executive Director; David Weisberg, President; David Rullo, Vice President; Beth Schwartz, Vice President; Lisa Steinfeld, Vice President; Jeffrey Young, Vice President; David Hepps, Financial Secretary; Tracy Barnett, Treasurer; Michelle Markowitz, Treasurer; Mary Cothran, Secretary.

••• TEMPLE OHAV SHALOM

A vibrant, inclusive Reform community in the North Hills 8400 Thompson Run Road Allison Park, PA 15101 Phone: 412-369-0900; Fax: 412-369-0699 Website: templeohavshalom.org Email: jleicht@templeohavshalom.org

Jeremy R. Weisblatt, Rabbi; Bonnie Valinsky, Preschool Dir.; Jackie Leicht, Temple Admin.; Sara Stock Mayo, Director of Ruach and Music; Arnie Begler, Pres.; Ellen Sapinkopf, Immediate Past President; Allan Jones, Treas; Cindy Harrison, VP Fundraising; Herb Cohen, VP Membership; Aaron Brauser, VP Lifelong Learning; Danielle West, VP Preschool; Beth Mongilio, VP Social Action; Alysia Knapp, Corresponding Secy.; Rhea Marinstein, VP Spiritual Enrichment; Ian Halper, Rec. Secy.; Andi Turkheimer, Member at Large; Brian

YOUNG JUDAEA WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA REGION

Alex Kiderman, President, Robert Fierstein, David Lilien, Jeremy Broverman, Steve Haberman, Ira Frank Vice Presidents; Mark Frisch, Secretary; Michael Rosenberg, Treasurer, Irwin Harris, Immediate Past President. Rabbi Seth Adelson, Spiritual Advisor.

••• UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL

James A. Gibson, Sr. Rabbi; Rabbi Keren Gorban, Associate Rabbi; Cantor Laura Berman, Cantor; Drew Barkley, Executive Dir.; Marilee Glick, Ed. Dir.; Saul Straussman, President; Alison Yazer, 1st Vice President; Stephen Jurman, 2nd Vice President; Elizabeth Collura, 3rd Vice President; Jerry Katz, Treasurer; Mara Kaplan, Assistant Treasurer; Lynn Rubenson, Secretary; Josh Lederer, Financial Secretary; Immediate Past President: Philip Lehman.

••• TIPHERETH ISRAEL CEMETERY

1250 Bower Hill Road Pittsburgh, PA 15243-1380 Website: templeemanuelpgh.org Facebook: facebook.com/templeemanuelpittsburgh Twitter: @TEPGH

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5505 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-9715; Fax: 412-421-8430 Website: templesinaipgh.org Email: office@templesinaipgh.org

TRI-STATE REGION FEDERATION OF JEWISH MEN’S CLUBS

Oakwood Street Shaler Township, PA 15209 Send correspondence to: 2233 Ramsey Road Monroeville, PA 15146 Phone: 412-824-7460 Email: adamwgusky@yahoo.com

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2682 Green Road, Suite 101 Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 Phone: 216.544.3010 Email: cari@israelrescue.org Website: israelrescue.org

Cari Margulis Immerman, 17 Midwest/Central States •••

Director,

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AUXILIARY FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE

To help make a better life for those less fortunate.

Rabbi, Eli Seidman; Treas., Marian Hershman; Activity Director, Ruth Fargotstien.

••• YESHIVA SCHOOLS

70 Years of Changing the World for Good

TREE OF LIFE*OR L’SIMCHA CONGREGATION

5898 Wilkins Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1299 Phone: 412-521-6788; Fax: 412-521-7846 Website: tolols.org Email: office@tolols.org

Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey S. Myers, Alvin K. Berkun, Rabbi Emeritus; Barb Feige, Executive Director; Alex Speck, Program Director; Sam Schachner, President; Carol Sikov Gross, President Elect; Alan Hausman, Vice President; Irwin Harris, Vice President; Stacey Hausman, Treasurer; Ben Simon, Assistant Treasurer; Sarah Pfeffer, Secretary; Michael Eisenberg, Immediate Past President.

••• TREE OF LIFE*OR L’SIMCHA MEN’S CLUB

Bob Fierstein, Co-President; David Lilien, Co-President/Treasurer; Michael Eisenberg, Harold Lessure, V.P.s; David Dinkin, Ritual Committee Chair; Irwin Harris, Immediate Past President.

••• TREE OF LIFE*OR L’SIMCHA SISTERHOOD

2100 Wightman St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-422-7300; Fax: 412-422-5930 Website: yeshivaschools.com Email: mail@yeshivaschools.com

YOUNG PEOPLES SYNAGOGUE

6404 Forbes Ave. P.O. Box 8141 Pittsburgh, PA 15217-8141 Phone: 412-421-3213 Website: yps-pgh.org Email: Rebecca.spiegel1@verizon.net

Rebecca Spiegel, President; Ted Stern, Treasurer; Vice President: Steven Santman; Bima Officers (3-month rotation): Rabbi Richard Marcovitz, Marc Pomerantz, Harold Scheinman, Alexander Orbach; Secretary, Heather Harr; Gabbaim, Sam Gottesman and Allen Spiegel; Allan Zeman, Chairman of the Board.

••• ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: PITTSBURGH

Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, Dean; Howard Balsam, Chair of the Board; Shlomo Jacobs, President; Charles Saul, V.P.; Chaya Engle, Donna Katz, Chaim Oster, Yonason Sanford, Board Members; Rabbi Yossi Rosenblum, Educational Director & Boys School Principal; Mrs. Blumi Rosenfeld, Assist. to the Dean; Rabbi Chezky Rosenfeld, Dir. of Development; Rabbi Moshe Levertov, Business Administrator; Rabbi Ephraim Rosenblum, Principal Emeritus; Mrs. Mindy Small, Boys General Studies Dir.; Mrs. Batsheva Deren, Girls School Principal; Mrs. Nami Friedman, Girls Assist. Principal; Mrs. Leah Shollar, Girls School General Studies Dir.; Mrs. Chaya Sara Barrocas, The Early Learning Center Director.

•••• YOUNG ISRAEL of PITTSBURGH/ CONGREGATION SHAARE ZEDECK

Orthodox

5831 Bartlett Street Pittsburgh PA 15217 Phone: 412-421-0508 Email: halochoscope@hotmail.com

Shimon Silver, Rabb ; Rocky Wice, President 412-260-9694, Email: rocky770@gmail.com

Kara Spodek, Co-President, Stacey Hausman, Co-President

Contact: Sharon Schoenfeld, Director of YearRound Programs Phone: 646-292-2388 Website: youngjudaea.org Email: pghyj@youngjudaea.org, info@ youngjudaea.org

Youth Advisor: Chaim Steinberg; Committee: Sharon Ackerman, Barbara Baumann, Karen Morris.

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Phone: 412-421-4690

President, Harvey Wolsh; Vice President, Adam Gusky; Secretary & Treasurer, Judy Gusky.

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Young Judaea is a Jewish Zionist Youth Movement operating year-round youth activities, volunteering and leadership development, summer camps for children and teens; programs to Israel for teens during the summer, Israel Gap year following high school and college programs.

ZIONISM — The right of the Jewish people to live in their Jewish homeland in peace.

6507 Wilkins Ave., Suite 102 Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1367 Phone: 412-665-4630 Email: stuart.pavilack@zoa.org

Stuart V. Pavilack, Executive Director; Jeffrey L. Pollock, Esq., President; Stephen A. Neustein, Esq., First Vice-President; Lawrence N. Paper, Esq., Vice President; Andrea Chester, Vice President; Jason Small, Treasurer; Julie Paris, Asst. Treasurer; Judy Kobell, Recording Secretary; Lyn Silverman, Corresponding Secretary; Ira M. Frank, Immediate Past President. Board members: Jeanne Bair, Dr. Marshall Balk, Hirsh Dlinn, Julian Elbling, Alexandra Greenberg, Rhonda Horvitz, Linda Hurwitz, Gerald Kobell, Esq., Debra Levy, Chaya Pollack, Linda Safyan, Charles Saul, Esq., Dee Selekman, Joe Titelbaum, Sibyl Treblow, Michael Vanyukov, Cheryl Weisberg, Rick Wice, Helene Wishnev. PJC >>Please send corrections, changes and additions to orgsdirectory@pittsburghjewish chronicle.org.

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episode) generates a recontextualization of the era, she explained. For those who lived through the period, there is a reckoning in seeing so many tales, and for younger audiences there is an edification and reassurance that “the United States has gotten itself into some really bad places over time and it has not meant the end of the project,” she said.

There is also the sense of parallels between the decades.

What frightened many Americans then was “this sense that the country was fragmenting, that there were these profound disagreements that emerged in part spurred on by the war, but that were driven by a lot of other factors,” Rosenberg said. Divides based upon age, political preferences, religion and regional residence generated countercultural movements, and “that sense of cultural fragmentation was really traumatic for people.”

What is happening now is “an even more accelerated cultural fragmentation and I think we’re still getting our minds around it,” she said.

The death of monoculture and resulting alienation are obviously less traumatic than losing 50,000 troops, but younger Americans are undergoing similar experiences in determining the role of lasting combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“America’s forever wars are not a distant topic, and sort of understanding how we got started on the road where this is permissible and possible is probably a pretty urgent tool for people,” she said.

Rosenberg’s deep dive into Vietnam was a rewarding journalistic endeavor that afforded travel abroad, work with documentarians and developing a holistic understanding of complicated matters. It was all very satisfying, she explained, but so too is the professional challenge of spitting out a quick recap. For years, Rosenberg penned immediate reactions to episodes of “Girls” and “Game of Thrones,” both on HBO. “Those are really fun sort of spot-writing exercises,” she said. “They’re like the tightest deadline you can possibly imagine and you’re competing with a lot of other people, so it’s just a really interesting exercise on how you can formulate a thesis and put the argument together.”

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Positioning figures on-screen does not necessarily offend people like political discourse does, so having these conversations becomes “much easier to do in a cultural space where people feel comfortable.” What Disney is doing is “actually really important political work,” she continued. “If we don’t sort out masculinity, we’re going to have a lot of trouble sorting out the basic dynamics about politics, gun violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, the state of the economy, the changing shape of American families.”

Rosenberg is ready to continue the conversation once she arrives in Pittsburgh — and she’s looking for some Steel City advice. “If people want to send me food recommendations, I’m always up for some,” she said. “Or especially because it’s the summer, if there’s a good place to get ice cream, I would love for readers to tell me where to go.”

The Heinz History Center Vietnam War Speaker Series event is July 23 at 7 p.m. Information available at heinzhistorycenter.org. PJC

bring in all this good stuff. We were going to heal the world — tikkun olam, but we didn’t call it that.”

Sunday morning, after 36 hours of drugs, music and crazy stuff, my car was where I left it,” he said. “And it was also a miracle that I remembered where it was.”

On Friday night, Schreiber heard Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Ravi Shankar. On Saturday, he heard Santana, Canned Heat, the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others, which Schreiber described as “the most incredible music I ever heard in my life.”

He recalled hearing “Gracie Slick singing ‘Sunrise’ as the sun went up” on Sunday morning. “That can’t be duplicated,” he said.

Food and water were scarce, and the only provision Schreiber brought along was a bottle of Old Grand-Dad. He recalls coming upon a milk truck on its side on the road, “and people ransacking it,” and

Mark Schreiber, former Pittsburgh broadcast journalist, who moved to Harrisburg in 1987 to work for Gov. Robert Casey.

of the experience was very real,” he said.

“It was not really discussed afterward that much, it was not emphasized, but it was pretty amazing. It’s almost miraculous. It’s not a viable culture long-term, but the takeaway is people really can live their lives being concerned about the welfare of other people, and helping others.”

Mickie Diamond, psychotherapist, Pittsburgh Diamond was 17, living in her parents’ house at Sackett Lake, a community in upstate New York, along with her older sister and younger brother. Her parents, who worked in the city, would often leave the three teenagers alone in the house.

“We knew Woodstock was coming, and at the time tickets were like $21 for the whole weekend, and to us, that was a fortune,” she said.

On the second day of Woodstock, Diamond was in South Fallsburg, “just hanging out,” when two friends from New York City came by on a motorcycle. They stopped and told her they were going to Woodstock.

“I said, ‘OK, I’ll come with you,’” Diamond recalled. “I had nothing with me. I just hopped on the motorcycle, and so the three of us went on a motorcycle. It was the only way in on Saturday — I didn’t observe Shabbos then — because all the cars were backed up.”

The three had no food with them, no sleeping bags or blankets, and only a little money.

“We basically were fed raw oatmeal, that’s what they were giving to the people because there were a lot of people to feed,” she said.

“And because we didn’t have a sleeping bag or anything, I slept in my friend’s crash helmet because it was padded — it was my pillow.”

After finally falling asleep, she was awakened early Sunday morning by Grace

And critical lessons can be derived, she said, from seemingly mindless entertainment — like the recent slew of superhero movies.

“I think that the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for example, is really bad at staging a certain kind of political conversation about the surveillance state, or how people in power should be regulated, but it’s really good at staging, for a mass audience, a conversation about what it means to be a good man,” she said.

For example, Tony Stark and Captain America exhibit contrary notions of power and personality, and while Disney will never decry vigilantism or America’s role as a global superpower, it can stack characters and movies in a way that features a conversation about masculinity, “which is a really tricky subject on a mass scale for millions, or the hundreds of millions of viewers around the world,” said Rosenberg.

“That’s actually a really valuable thing to be happening right now,” she added. “I mean, we have a lot of really screwed-up ideas about masculinity and how to express it that are a major driver in politics right now, and no one has found a productive way to talk about it that is politics-based.”

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Slick of Jefferson Airplane yelling: “Good morning, everybody!”

“It was very irritating because I wanted to sleep,” Diamond said.

Besides the amazing music — particularly The Who and Sly and the Family Stone — what is etched in Diamond’s mind is the feeling of goodwill that infused the atmosphere.

“You felt really calm and really peaceful,” said Diamond. “You weren’t afraid of anybody hurting you or anything. It was just this wonderful celebration of a generation.

I guess people were getting high. I didn’t.

I didn’t feel like I needed it. It was just so cool to be part of that. And hearing all the bands. It was just an unbelievable feeling. It was a feeling of solidarity with a generation.

I don’t know that any other generation had that feeling like we did.”

Diamond and her friends left the festival on Sunday afternoon.

“We were hungry,” she said. “And I had to go home and tell my mother I was OK. She didn’t know where I was. She had no idea.”

The weekend “was about peace and love,” Diamond explained. “We thought that we were the generation who was going to

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Schreiber still has the three $6 tickets he purchased for each day of the festival.

When the then-19-year-old college student arrived at Woodstock after driving there from Farrell, Pennsylvania, the gates were already down and people were entering the grounds for free.

Along with three friends and his mother — a Holocaust survivor who he dropped

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off along the way in New Jersey to attend a bat mitzvah — Schreiber headed off in his grandfather’s “souped up” Pontiac LeMans for “the music event of my lifetime,” he said.

“Driving in on Friday, it was almost like the Old West, with a wagon train,” he remembered. “On Route 17B in New York, there were miles of cars; it was insane. There was a car on fire, hippies everywhere.”

Finding parking wasn’t easy, so Schreiber left his car in a random farmer’s field.

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trays of food on long tables provided by a nearby commune.

Although he had been separated from his friends for the entire festival, he managed to find them early Sunday morning.

“Then, I found my car, and made it back to New Jersey to attend the bat mitzvah reception on Sunday afternoon,” Schreiber said. “I fit in Woodstock around a bat mitzvah.” PJC Toby Tabachnick can be reached at ttabachnick@pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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ne of the kittens that I fostered this summer was extremely aggressive.

She would hiss and spit anytime I walked into the room and would bat at my hand — claws out — when I went to pet any of her littermates. I could only pick her up if she was wrapped in a towel, and even then would have to be careful not to get scratched or bitten. I quickly realized, though, that she was not actually a mean kitten. She was simply terrified and would lash out when she was scared, whether or not she was in any danger.

that his attempts to harm the Israelites will result in his own destruction.

I see the same thing happening in our country. We have people at our borders fleeing their own Mitzrayim, their own versions of Egypt, and people who fled years ago and found hope and promise here.

Instead of granting them safe passage on their journeys or letting them find refuge in our country, fear has led our government and its agencies to lock them up.

Whatever their reasons for coming to America, whatever threat to our country they might bring, we cannot let our fear overcome compassion, humanity and justice. Standing aside as people — adults and children — are put in inhumane conditions because they’ve sought refuge in a country that wants to bar their entry brings the curse of injustice to

We have people at our borders fleeing their own Mitzrayim, their own versions of Egypt, and people who fled years ago and found hope and promise here.

Nicole and Howard Valinsky are delighted to announce the marriage of their son, Alex, to Natalia, daughter of Catherine and Mark Yobbi, of Squirrel Hill. Alex is the grandson of Mira and the late Sanford E. Cohen of Squirrel Hill and Toby and the late Marvin Valinsky of Highland Beach, Florida, formerly of Squirrel Hill. Natalia is the granddaughter of Angelina and the late Costantino Rocca of Squirrel Hill and the late Roberta and Alfred Yobbi of Greenfield. The newlyweds honeymooned in Barbados and now reside in Swissvale. PJC

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Balak, in this week’s parshat, reacts similarly. He’s seen the strength of the Israelites against nations that oppose them (at the end of last week’s parshat, they decimate the Amorite territories of Kings Sihon and Og after the kings send out attack forces to prevent the Israelites from passing through their land), he’s terrified of their massive numbers, and he knows that attacking them directly will lead to his destruction. So he tries to destroy the Israelites in a more roundabout way — by hiring a professional prophet/magician, Bilaam, to curse them. Despite multiple attempts to curse the Israelites, Bilaam is only able to bless them. And by the end, he ends up cursing the Moabites — Balak’s people — with their own destruction.

What Balak doesn’t realize is that the Israelites have no reason to attack him or his people. In fact, they didn’t plan to engage with the Moabites at all or the Amorites previously. All they want is to pass through these territories on their journey to the Promised Land. Because Balak reacts through fear, he’s completely unable to see

us, not to them. Standing aside as government agencies try to take our undocumented neighbors away brings the curse of injustice to us, not to them. Standing aside as families are broken apart and separated in workplace raids — where employers have taken advantage of their undocumented workers but it’s the workers who are arrested and processed for deportation — brings the curse of injustice to us, not to them.

Unlike my foster kitten, we have the ability to understand our fears and respond thoughtfully instead of lashing out. So when we see our leaders trying to bring harm to others as a form of self-protection, we have the responsibility to stand up and remind them that their fear-based actions and policies will ultimately bring the curse of injustice to us, hurting us, the very people they are trying to protect. And if we stand up, we can turn this curse into a blessing. PJC Rabbi Keren Gorban is associate rabbi at Temple Sinai. This column is a service of the Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinic Association.

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of Israel’s aesthetic makeup. “It was such a celebration,” said Caruso. Being a part of it was “such a high, such an up moment.”

Seventy-two hours of nonstop dance afforded countless opportunities for performances and classes for both experts and the general public.

She wasn’t surprised that this year’s festival turned out to be so great. Returning from the festival last year and speaking with people at Bodiography’s Squirrel Hill studio, “I felt like nobody believed me how incredible it was,” said Caruso. “I was so awestruck. I was just blown away by the culture, the hospitality, the adoration and celebration of dance at that level.”

It was important to be able to share all that with “my artists who are involved so heavily and so passionately in the Jewish community, and giving them the opportunity to see this connection to this amazing culture and country with so much deep history.”

Neither Caruso nor any of the traveling

LEVINE: Roberta “Birdie” Levine of New York City passed away on Thursday, June 13, 2019. Loving daughter of the late Morris and Clara Gelman Levine and survived by her brother Marvin Levine. She grew up in the East End, went to Hebrew school and was one of the first bat mitzvahs at B’nai Israel.

She graduated from Peabody High School, won a beauty contest, worked for a few years in Pittsburgh and then relocated to New York City where she worked as a secretary. Birdie was well liked with many friends and was a warm, kind, good-hearted person who will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Graveside Services were held at Beth Abraham Cemetery.

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performers are Jewish, and none of the performers had been to the Jewish state before. Apart from performing in Karmiel, the group toured Jerusalem and Nazareth, and visited the beach in Tel Aviv. They especially liked the food.

“I wish I had food like that all the time,” she said.

Caruso plans to return to Israel regularly and use her influence to inspire other American dance companies to visit Israel.

“The food is marvelous. The hospitality is incredible. The people are extraordinary. The respect for dance and art is out of this world.”

And even for those who are not professional artists, the festival is worth going to, she added.

“Whether you dance or not — I didn’t get to go to Woodstock, but to see 250,000 people in a small town overjoyed, just celebrating culture — I would encourage anybody who can go to Israel to experience it. It was such a celebration of life.” PJC

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Soon, images from numerous social settings were woven into Alaquiva’s artwork.

“Black Lives Matter, Pride, Holocaust, Not My President,” he said. “We want to move to other iterations, as well — immigration, etc. — and really tackle these subject matters through photography.”

Pittsburgh Holocaust Center Director Lauren Bairnsfather was impressed by both the artist and his work, and felt the show would fit into the Holocaust Center’s mission.

“Emmai Alaquiva is a bridge builder — he draws visual parallels between the Holocaust and current events and invites viewers to join the conversation. This fits exactly with the community engagement goals of the Holocaust Center. The Holocaust is human history. What can we learn from it to address injustices happening today, in Western Pennsylvania?”

It took two years to develop “Optic Voices: Roots,” which opened at the Holocaust Center on July 18 and is on display through August.

The exhibit combines images from a trip Alaquiva took to Poland with Classrooms Without Borders to create the documentary “Ghetto Voices,” as well as photographs from the Hill District and North Side featuring African Americans and more recent images centered on the Tree of Life massacre in Squirrel Hill.

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arrival of two teenage Ethiopian Israelis is another demonstration of the shared goal of benefiting Jewish youth, explained Federation representatives.

Supporting such initiative was a more than $600,000 grant from an anonymous donor.

This generosity provides Israeli teenagers of Ethiopian descent greater chances for academic and social success, said Salzman.

Money from the grant supported a June 19 summit in Jerusalem, attended by more than 600 students of Ethiopian heritage, celebrating the achievements of participating Ethiopian young adults. Moving forward, the threeyear grant will allow more than 200 Israelis of Ethiopian descent, including students from Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether region of Karmiel and Misgav, to participate in the Ethiopian National Project’s School Performance and Community Empowerment program, a holistic effort designed to meet the needs of schoolchildren, their parents

deep roots of the community in the Hill District and North Side,” said Snyder.

She explained that after the Tree of Life shooting, she felt it was important to show that “hate doesn’t have a place here. We felt this was the sort of exhibit that had to be produced.” “‘Optic Voices’ should take you on a journey,” Snyder continued. “By only using a word or two titling the photo, you come up with the caption and concept. You tell us what it makes you feel. We want to curate hard conversations within the community.”

For Bairnsfather, “it is the thoughtful weaving of Holocaust history with persistent social injustices that p Victoria Snyder and Rabbi Jeffrey Myers view “Optic Voices: Roots,” which opened at speaks to me,” she said. “For the the Holocaust Center on July 18.

Photo by Kim Rullo ‘Optic Voices: Roots’ exhibit, the photographs go deeper “Jewish people have a lot of parallels Rabbi Jeffrey Meyers looking through a bullet — including story lines about Holocaust to African Americans in this country in hole in his Torah. That Torah, which he was survivors and the attack on Oct. 27, 2018.” the adversity that both have experienced,” holding during the massacre, saved his life.

Alaquiva views “Optic Voices” as a part of Alaquiva explained. “We wanted to create “That image is gripping and evocative and his what he calls his “artivism.” something that attacked the parallels. ‘Optic it evokes change,” Alaquiva said.

“It is a coming together,” he said, “to Voices: Roots’ really tackles the roots of The artist worked closely with his update and change the narrative of our African Americans and our struggle, as producer, Victoria Snyder, selecting images communities.” PJC well as the Holocaust. It does it through an for the exhibit. aesthetic that is digestible through art.”

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and leaders. Grant funds will also establish a permanent endowment offering medical scholarships to Ethiopian Israelis, at the Federation’s Jewish Community Foundation.

The Federation has long supported the Ethiopian Israeli population. When the Ethiopian National Project was starting, “Federation was one of the first to invest in the project,” said Eglash. Since then, the Jewish umbrella organization has continued to aid the Project, and was listed in the latter’s 2018 annual report as having donated more than $50,000.

The Ethiopian National Project also receives funding and support from the Jewish Federations of North America, the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Israel, Keren Hayesod-UIA, representatives of Ethiopian Jewish community organizations and others.

Money received benefits Ethiopian Israeli teenagers through numerous social and educational opportunities, including bringing participants to Jewish American summer camps or hosting after school sessions.

While the two visiting teenagers come from the Karmiel and Misgav region, the Ethiopian National Project functions in 23 communities throughout the Jewish state and serves more than 3,000 students through scholastic assistance programs and nearly 1,900 youth in 14 outreach centers.

Such efforts are critical to reducing achievement gaps experienced by many Ethiopian Israelis, explained Eglash.

Between 1980 and 1992, approximately 50,000 Ethiopian Jews came to Israel. Despite the Israeli government’s airborne efforts to physically relocate many of these individuals from Africa to the Jewish state, integrative actions were thwarted by “cross-cultural misunderstandings and the development of chronic disease, due to lifestyle changes and differences in cultural beliefs,” noted researcher Jonah B. Cohen in BMJ Case Reports. Organizations, both governmental and nongovernmental, have attempted to improve Ethiopian Israelis’ quality of life by bolstering educational and communal health initiatives, he continued.

This grant, and the opportunity to bring

two Ethiopian Israeli teenagers from Pittsburgh’s sister city, is another shot at leveling the playing field, explained Salzman.

“It’s challenging to succeed in Israeli society without English. Everyone obviously speaks Hebrew but English opens a lot of doors,” she said.

The teenagers will be able to learn from their American counterparts and utilize those skills upon returning to Israel, explained Eglash. Similarly, the American teenagers can learn much from the visiting Ethiopian Israelis.

“Many Jewish kids don’t realize how multicultural Israel is,” said Eglash.

Israeli teenagers have previously attended Emma Kaufman Camp, but this year’s delegation will be the first to include Ethiopian Israelis, said Salzman.

Eglash believes Pittsburgh will serve as a model to other communities.

“This is just a really neat concept,” he said.

“There’s nothing like it.” PJC Adam Reinherz can be reached at areinherz@ pittsburghjewishchronicle.org.

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Community Sound of Jewish Music The recent Sound of Jewish Music event, which took place on June 13, was attended by 450 women from across the community.

p Cara Shuckett and her daughter Ariel Rieger perform “Anything But You.”

p Campbell Kurlander, Anya Epstein and Carlie Platt sing “Light a Candle.”

p A team of community musicians, singers and dancers perform the popular Ladino song, “Cuando El Rey Nimrod.”

p Irina Elvgren shares words of inspiration on lessons learned from her battle with breast cancer.

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p The Sound of Jewish Music cast concludes the evening with a rendition of “To Life.”

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Community Isra-Mamas take Mamanet Tournament Teams from Israel, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Youngstown were among seven squads to participate in the first Mamanet tournament in Youngstown, Ohio. Two Pittsburgh women, Galit Regev and Marina Kovaliov, originally from Israel, competed on the Israel team,

Isra-Mamas. Isra-Mamas beat out Game of Throws, a team from Youngstown, to win the trophy. About 60 women participated. Mamanet is a modified version of volleyball that originated in Israel and is played by thousands of women across the globe. The Jewish Community Center of Youngstown hosted the June 30 tournament.

p Bottom row, from left: Sarah Grimm, Sabrina LeClair, Chrissy Davis.

Top row, from left: Brandi D’Amico, Katie Plofker, Jen Chmielus, Jill Martin, Sherree Hall, Ursula Meyer

p From left: Sabrina LeClair, Jill Martin, Jen Chmielus, Katie Plofker

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Farewell, Commander Lando Molly May, cantorial soloist and choir director at Rodef Shalom Congregation, was appointed to the board of the Guild of Temple Musicians as its vice president of education. The Guild of Temple Musicians is an affiliate of the American Conference of Cantors.

Zone 5 Citizen’s Public Safety Council bid farewell to Commander Jason Lando and welcome to new Zone 5 Commander Steven Vinansky on July 9. Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert, Zone 5 Citizen’s Public Safety Council President Zinna Scott and Rev. Darryl Canady praised Commander Lando and welcomed Commander Vinansky at the recent gathering. Lando now leads the Narcotics and Vice Division of the Pittsburgh Police.

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Time to meet and eat

p Lester Hadburg, Gail Neft, Marcia Kramer and Carol Lazear were among those who met on July 10 at Drew’s Family Restaurant on Ardmore Boulevard in Forest Hills for Squirrel Hill AARP Chapter # 3354’s monthly lunch.

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