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Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Western Pennsylvania 2017 Awards

Jewish Sports Hall of Fame / Roberta Levine

Manny Gold Humanitarian Award COREY O’CONNOR Ziggy Kahn Award GEORGE NOVAK Inductees DAYNA GREENFIELDBasketball SCOTT ROSENBaseball RANDALL TOIGTennis Scholastic Athletic Awards ELI ABO, Shady Side AcademyIce Hockey / Lacrosse JONAH BERGER, Allderdice High SchoolCross Country / Swimming / Track DANIELLE BRAND, Franklin Regional High SchoolSoccer / Track GEOFF COHEN, Winchester Thurston High SchoolCross Country / […]

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JCC Day Campers Will Wish the Summer Would Never End

Camps / Roberta Levine

Kids: Get ready for the best summer, ever, at JCC Day Camps. We’re counting the days, minutes and seconds until the camp season starts in June. At James and Rachel Levinson Day Camp, our flagship day camp at the Family Park in Monroeville, new activities and returning favorites set the scene for each child to

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New Fitness Equipment / New Challenges!

Fitness & Wellness / Roberta Levine

As I await the delivery of our new equipment to Squirrel Hill Centerfit, I’ve been thinking about how much has changed! Cardio equipment has evolved from just providing a great workout to providing a great entertaining workout. Yes, most of our cardio machines already have their own private televisions. We even have machines that simulate outdoor

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Drink your water!

Fitness & Wellness / Roberta Levine

It’s Drinking Water Week — a good time to remind us of the many, many benefits of drinking water. Here are some of the benefits of staying hydrated from Patti Sciulli, our JCC expert on fitness and building a lifelong healthy habits: Improved digestion: Every system in the body requires water to function properly. Water helps

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Seder supplements to make your Passover relevant this year

Teens / Roberta Levine

What I love about the seder is that the ritual that began the night before we left Egypt has been transformed thousands of times over throughout the generations. In fact, the Passover haggadah is said to be the most published Jewish book in history with editions that meet the needs of assorted Jews throughout history.

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“Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat!”

Jewish Life, Teens / Roberta Levine

Year after year, brisket after brisket, matzah after matzah… this line is the highlight of my Passover experience. There is something that touches me deep down inside when we lift up that memory-laden-matzah and declare: Ha Lachma Anya This is the bread of affliction, the poor bread, which our ancestors ate in the land of

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J-Serve Pittsburgh: Teamwork in Action

Jewish Life, Teens / Roberta Levine

Last June, four collaborating agencies – BBYO, Repair the World, the Volunteer Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the JCC – came together to begin planning the largest Jewish teen service event of the year. Calendars were managed, Steering Committee applications were drafted, and each organization’s role was clearly determined and defined. Several

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March Madness: We Feel It Year-Round at the JCC

Sports, Aquatics, & Dance / Roberta Levine

Ahhh…March Madness…the time of year where die-hard fans, casual fans and just about everyone in-between focuses their attention on basketball and their NCAA Tournament brackets! Here at the JCC, we are no different – whether it’s Sherree Hall running her annual poll for the staff or the typical conversations between members about their brackets or

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J-Serve: A Day of Community Service for Teens

Community Spotlight / Roberta Levine

This Sunday, for the 12th consecutive year in Pittsburgh, more than 300 Jewish teens in 6th-12th grade will join together at the JCC for a day of community service, learning and fun, as part of J-Serve: International Day of Youth Service. Over six powerful hours, these inspiring teens will engage in Jewish values of tikkun

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National Nutrition Month: Let's Talk About Food!

Fitness & Wellness, Nutrition / Roberta Levine

OK, it’s National Nutrition Month, so let’s talk about food. Quick: what does a healthy diet look like? If you are like a lot of people, your answer might include a list of Nos. No sugar. No white foods. No salt. No dairy. No junk food. No processed foods. Veggies are good, but no carrots!

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Heart Healthy Eating

Fitness & Wellness, Nutrition / Roberta Levine

Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer of women AND men? It causes 1 in 3 deaths for woman and 1 in 4 deaths for men per year. That’s a huge number of people!1,2 It’s national Heart Health Month. What can you do to help combat heart disease? Add exercise to

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A Lesson from the J&R Day Camp Garden

Camps, Early Childhood, Teens / Roberta Levine

Children have an innate affinity to being in nature, to sensory play, to experiential learning that we see every day in the summers at J&R Day Camp. The Torah teaches us a lot about the importance of nature. From the start, the book of Bereshit details God’s creations of heaven and earth. Each time God

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About Big Night: The Prom

Big Night, Happenings / Roberta Levine

Dancing Queens and limousines – prom night is a magical milestone! We can’t wait for you to make some new memories and have the night of your life at #BigNightBigProm. Enjoy this fun infographic for some surprising facts and history of these big nights! #JCCBigNight2017 Inspired? Join us at this fabulous event. For tickets, click

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PJ Library Celebrates Authors & Illustrators Week

Happenings, Jewish Life, Teens / Roberta Levine

With the week of February 5th being Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week, what better opportunity than to highlight a few of my favorite PJ Library books! As the director of PJ Library in Pittsburgh, I get the privilege of receiving nine wonderful, high quality Jewish children’s books every month – one for each age group

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Community is our Middle Name

History 120 Years, Jewish Life / Roberta Levine

February 3, 2017 At this time of challenging and often contentious public discourse, we proudly wear ‘COMMUNITY’ as our middle name. From our founding at the turn of the 20th century, we helped thousands of immigrants and refugees become an integral part of the American dream. As the work that we began in 1895 continues

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J Line – Teens and Jewish Values at Work

Teens / Roberta Levine

“For I, the Lord, love justice.” -Isaiah 61:8 “You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers.” -Deuteronomy 10:19 At J Line, we are proud to connect Jewish values to the pursuit of peace and justice in the world around us. Last Sunday, during Breakfast B’yachad (“together”), in light of Friday’s ban on immigration from

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100 Letters – 100 Days

Community Spotlight, Early Childhood, Teens / Roberta Levine

I would love to read the President’s mail. But of course, that would be illegal without his permission. We do get glimpses of the content of letters sent to Presidents of the past when they have shared stories of citizens as a way of illustrating American values. They are American values expressed through the voices

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The Wellness Continuum at the JCC

Member Experience, Sports, Aquatics, & Dance / Roberta Levine

One of the most unique things about PT @ the JCC powered by the JAA is our dynamic location. Just steps away from a state-of the-art fitness and aquatic center, we at PT @ the JCC are able to utilize these wonderful facilities to help any physical therapy patient meet his or her goals. Perhaps more

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