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JCC Maccabi Games Returning to Pittsburgh in Summer 2025

Posted by Admin on July 23, 2024

First-of-Its-Kind College Campus Games: JCC Maccabi® Returns to Pittsburgh The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh (JCC) is proud to announce that Pittsburgh will host the inaugural JCC Maccabi® Campus Games in the summer of 2025 in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh and JCC Association of North America. The JCC Maccabi Games are the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event and has engaged more than …

JCC State of Mind July 19, 2024

Posted by Admin on July 19, 2024

People often confuse optimism and hope. They sound similar. But in fact, they're very different. Optimism is the belief that things are going to get better. Hope is the belief that if we work hard enough together, we can make things better. It needs no courage, just a certain naivety to be an optimist. It needs a great deal of courage to have hope. -Rabbi …

JCC State of Mind – July 12, 2024

Posted by Admin on July 12, 2024

While so many of our staff are hard at work with a full slate of summertime activities, I'd like to step away from the details of the day-to-day for just a moment and share two recent and important milestones from a season filled with so much buzz and excitement. First, at EKC, we wished our 31 Staff-in-Training (SITs) and four colleagues from Camp Interlaken, the Milwaukee …

JCC State of Mind – July 5, 2024

Posted by Jason Kunzman, JCC President and CEO on July 5, 2024

Summer is a VERY busy time at the JCC. Bus songs, swim lessons, canoeing and kayaking, boat rides and knee boarding, ziplining, nature hikes, trips abroad, arts & crafts, sports of all sorts, color war and much more. While any of these activities would make a good theme for a Shabbat weekly message, another lesser-known and much less appreciated summertime undertaking at the JCC - …

JCC State of Mind – June 28, 2024

Posted by Admin on June 28, 2024

Connections, VALUES, growth and fun! With camp in full swing at the South Hills JCC, it is time for one of my favorite programs of the entire summer - Mensch on the Bench - where counselors pick a camper in their group who most embodies the weekly middah (value). Every Friday, as the entire camp gathers together for Shabbat, campers count down the seconds until their …

THE DEKA PHILOSOPHY

Posted by Spartan DEKA on June 26, 2024

THE DEKA PHILOSOPHY On Your Mark Fitness, Pittsburgh’s DEKA affiliate at the South Hills JCC, offers premier DEKA classes, challenges and competitions! Coming up: DEKA Strong competition Saturday, July 20, 2024 8 am-1 pm On Your Mark Fitness at the JCC South Hills Athletes will receive a T-shirt and their first piece of the Trifecta Medal after competing in our 10-zone competition. REGISTER HERE The DEKA MISSION At Spartan, our mission is to positively …

JCC State of Mind – June 21, 2024

Posted by Jason Kunzman, JCC President and CEO on June 21, 2024

Over the past week at the JCC, we have been celebrating both moving up and moving out. Across our early childhood development center in both Squirrel Hill and South Hills, nearly 60 of our pre-kindergarten students moved up following a year of significant exploration and growth. Over the same time, Rabbi Ron Symons, our Senior Director of Jewish Life and Founding Director of the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic …

Getting Active at the JCC: We’re Here to Help!

Posted by Jen Goldston, Membership and Engagement Specialist on June 21, 2024

You've walked in and started your membership. You've gotten your swipe card, downloaded the app to see the schedules, made a promise to yourself that you are starting new healthy habits, and then you've gone to bed each night telling yourself that in the morning, you're going to figure out how to actually Do The Thing. I get it, I've been there. I walked past the JCC, …

JCC State of Mind – June 14, 2024

Posted by Jason Kunzman, JCC President and CEO on June 14, 2024

Throughout the Jewish world, this week has been filled with active learning in celebration of Shavuot, the late spring pilgrimage festival. Originally celebrated exclusively as a harvest festival 50 days after the beginning of Passover when the wheat crops came in, Shavuot has been transformed over history to include a celebration of coming together to learn and to mark the moment when the Ten Commandments …

Cheesecake – The Taste of Shavuot

Posted by Roberta Levine on June 9, 2024

Holidays, especially Jewish Holidays, are not the best time to enforce a weight loss diet. Take Shavuot, which this year begins on the eve of Thursday, May 25. For reasons that some attribute to parsing of Jewish law and others, to a tradition that evolved amongst Eastern European Jews, dairy - cheese and one of its sweetest uses, cheesecake - is a Shavuot treat. And so, a …

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