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Immigrants' Stories, Faithful Responses

Rev. Liddy Barlow speaks at Faithful Responses to Strangers, Immigrants, and Refugees Faithful Responses to Strangers, Immigrants and Refugees: A Pittsburgh Conversation – Thursday, November 2, 2017, at the JCC This event, hosted by the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement, brought together clergy, lay leaders and community members, and refugees and immigrants who shared their stories: Their […]

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Everyone’s a Winner…

Sports, Aquatics, & Dance / Roberta Levine

Admit it, when you read the title, you thought, “Oh, great, another coach giving us their two cents about participation trophies in youth sports today!?!?!?” And while I could go on for hours about that subject, I am more interested in another interpretation of this title – specifically the multitude of physical, emotional and mental

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An Italian Journey into Early Childhood!

Teens / Roberta Levine

On Thursday, October 19, a team of 60 early childhood directors from Pittsburgh, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Israel will travel together to Reggio Emilia, Italy, for a ten day intensive seminar in the exploration of the Reggio Emilia Approach through a Jewish lens. The JCC Early Childhood Development Centers are proud to be a part of the

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Emma Kaufmann Camp: From "CIT's" to "SIT's"

Camps, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

Emma Kaufmann Camp’s (EKC) Counselor-In-Training (CIT) program is a 49-day leadership development training program, where young adults learn, through real-world experiences, how to become role models and mentors for children ages 7-15 years old as well as productive members of their home community. A critical component of EKC’s CIT program has been a 3-week immersive

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Rules of the Sukkah

Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

Time to build the Sukkah. Here are some tips…Dr. Seuss Style!

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Renewing the "Ruach"

Camps / Roberta Levine

Although I have only been on the job for a short time as Department Director of Children, Youth and Family Services for the South Hills JCC, I have a number of new and exciting ideas that I would like to share with you. Renewing Ruach We are going to dramatically increase the energy, or ruach

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Variety leads to happier and healthier athletes

Teens / Roberta Levine

As both a parent and a coach, nothing frustrates me more than specialization. Gone are the days of the two- or three-sport athlete. The trend over the past decade or two has been for young athletes to begin concentrating on one specific sport from a very young age all the way through their high school

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Shabbat is The First Labor Law

Community Spotlight, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

I was struck by this Samuel Rosenberg Image entitled ‘Rest’ in the spring when Melissa Hiller, Director of our American Jewish Museum, brought me to the Heinz History Center to see the exhibit “The Gift of Art“. “For 100 years, the Friends of Art has purchased art to be given to the Pittsburgh Public Schools

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The March on Washington – 54 Years Later in PGH

Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

We are living in very challenging times. Protesters, advocates, and politicians are trying to spin our moral compasses in such a way so that we have little sense of which way to step. But we know in which direction we should march: the moral direction that is taught by all of our faith traditions, the

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Moral Compass

Community Spotlight, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

Elie Weisel taught us: One of the Just Men came to Sodom, determined to save its inhabitants from sin and punishment. Night and day he walked the streets and markets protesting against greed and theft, falsehood and indifference. In the beginning, people listened and smiled ironically. Then they stopped listening; he no longer even amused

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Early Childhood Development Center: The Sheva Journey Begins

Jewish Life, Teens / Roberta Levine

Sheva (the number seven in Hebrew) has amazing power in Jewish thought and practice. It is also the name of the JCCs of North America Early Learning Framework and represents the seven core elements of exemplary early childhood practice profoundly rooted in the latest research on child development seen through a Jewish lens. What does

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Sharing Ideas and History with Warsaw JCC

Community Spotlight, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

This week the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Buncher Foundation gathered to celebrate 25 years of investing in an international leadership program for professionals and lay leadership through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) that was launched in partnership with the Federation. In the past quarter century, hundreds of Buncher graduates in dozens

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Tisha B’Av: Our Eastern Walls

Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

Each morning, as I leave my bedroom and head downstairs, I find myself facing east on the midpoint landing on my staircase. Just before I turn right to make it all the way downstairs, I come face to face with these eternally contemporary words: If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget

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Mindful Eating: An Experiment

Fitness & Wellness / Roberta Levine

Follow-Up – What I’ve Learned It has been a few weeks since I started my experiment with mindful eating. In that time, I’ve gone on vacation with friends, had multiple visitors to my home, and done lots of other summer activities. It has been a fun and enjoyable summer. And I must say, not having to

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Healthy Recipes for Summer

Fitness & Wellness, Nutrition, Teens / Roberta Levine

The poet William Carlos Williams wrote: “In summer, the song sings itself.” And it’s true, there is something effortless and bountiful about the colorful vegetables and fruits flowing into the market, and hopefully also our grocery carts and kitchens. Every time you turn around, something else is in season – sweet local strawberries, ruby red

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Giving the Father’s Day Pledge New Meaning

Happenings, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

For the fourth year in a row, I am joining scores of regional leaders in signing the Father’s Day Pledge #FathersDayPledge #SouthwestPASaysNoMore. This declaration calls attention to the urgency to break the generational cycle of violence for children, teens and young adults by changing social norms around gender and partner violence of any kind. I

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Kirshner Family Weekend at EKC

Camps, Teens / Roberta Levine

This past weekend was our annual Kirshner Family Weekend at Emma Kaufmann Camp. More than 35 families came to spend the weekend and get the full camp experience. Everyone had a blast and the weather couldn’t have been better. From tubing on the lake to horseback riding and zip lining, we all had so many

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Women lifting weights with her physical therapist

“Next Steps” Program is Part of the Wellness Continuum at the JCC

Fitness & Wellness, Sports, Aquatics, & Dance / Roberta Levine

Completing physical therapy isn’t the end of an individual’s journey back to wholeness. For many making a full recovery from an injury or surgery, it’s just the beginning. The JCC’s Next Steps, a post-rehabilitation program, is designed to help in that transition from physical therapy to long-term fitness and wellness through working with uniquely qualified

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Immigrants' Stories, Faithful Responses

Everyone’s a Winner…

An Italian Journey into Early Childhood!

Emma Kaufmann Camp: From "CIT's" to "SIT's"

Rules of the Sukkah

Renewing the "Ruach"

Variety leads to happier and healthier athletes

Shabbat is The First Labor Law

The March on Washington – 54 Years Later in PGH

Moral Compass

Early Childhood Development Center: The Sheva Journey Begins

Sharing Ideas and History with Warsaw JCC

Tisha B’Av: Our Eastern Walls

Mindful Eating: An Experiment

Healthy Recipes for Summer

Giving the Father’s Day Pledge New Meaning

Kirshner Family Weekend at EKC

“Next Steps” Program is Part of the Wellness Continuum at the JCC

Fitness

Sports

Children & Teens

Camps

AgeWell

Locations

Jewish Life

Arts

Annual Celebration

Events

Giving

JCC Voices

Author name: Roberta Levine

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