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Mentoring Happens Every Day at the JCC

January is National Mentoring Month, which focuses on how mentors help ensure positive outcomes for our young people. The JCC...

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  • Community Spotlight, Happenings
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Our Resolution:  Helping Older Adults to AgeWell

Typical New Year’s resolutions include exercise, lose weight, learn a new skill, spend less, volunteer more, and spend time with...

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  • Fitness & Wellness, Member Experience

New Year, New Goals!

As the new year begins, many of us are thinking about what we did or did not achieve this past...

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  • Nutrition

The Maccabee Way of Thinking

Each year, as I re-encounter the story of Chanukah, I am inspired by the persistence of a small group of...

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  • Jewish Life

Personal Trainer Embodies Jewish Values

As the Membership Director at the South Hills JCC, I often hear comments from our members about the facility, the...

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  • Fitness & Wellness, Jewish Life

Holiday Eating Survival Guide

Oh no! Here they come! Are you bracing yourself for cookie trays, gratuitous boxes of chocolates and endless office parties?...

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  • Fitness & Wellness, Nutrition

Bring on The Light – Chanukah!

As the days get shorter during the end of 2016, Chanukah could not come any sooner. As I prepare for...

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  • Camps
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Ask the PT: Hot or Cold?

I am often asked whether heat or ice is better to use for pain or minor injuries. Like many answers...

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  • Member Experience

Day Without Art

Day Without Art, begun on December 1, 1989, and recognized annually, makes us aware that we can all be affected...

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  • Community Spotlight, Happenings, Jewish Life

Banish those Post Holiday Regrets

Did you maybe eat a little bit too much turkey or stuffing over Thanksgiving and the subsequent weekend? Maybe indulged...

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  • Fitness & Wellness

What is Physical Therapy?

“Physical Therapy is an active approach to your wellness via a combination of manual techniques, rehabilitation exercise and movement analysis....

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  • Fitness & Wellness
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Timeless values and lessons through JCC Basketball

The Pittsburgh Clap, a rich tradition that ties decades of JCC basketball together, is alive as we begin yet another...

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  • Member Experience

The Morning After: Be A Role Model

On Sunday, I blogged how I voted. This morning, as we wake up to a peaceful transfer of power and...

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  • Community Spotlight, Jewish Life

I voted as a proud American Jewish citizen. Will you?

I live in Pennsylvania, where things matter this year in presidential politics, and I already voted through absentee ballot because...

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  • Adults & Seniors, Jewish Life

Fall for Healthy Living

Fall… Ahhhh, that wonderful time of the year when kids go back to school, the leaves turn beautiful colors, and...

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  • Fitness & Wellness

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