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We are holding the Framingham community in our thoughts and sending our love as they courageously stand up for solidarity, pride and unity this evening at Temple Beth Am of Framingham. ... See MoreSee Less
Community Invited To Shabbat of Solidarity, Pride, & Unity Friday at Temple Beth Am - Framingham Source
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Thank you so much for thinking of us. We hold Pittsburgh in our hearts as we approach the one year anniversary of the massacre at Tree of Life Synagogue. Olam Chesed Yibaneh - This World Will be Built on Love. Shabbat Shalom!
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It may be dreary today, but on Sunday we had a beautiful day for a Sukkot celebration! ... See MoreSee Less
Sometimes an opportunity for kindness is right under your nose! ... See MoreSee Less
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It's Feel Good Friday! Remember to be patient with yourself today. ... See MoreSee Less
Today, consider the good you can do with just one kind word. ... See MoreSee Less
Join All for All at our 3rd Annual All for All Summit Oct 10th-12th, an annual convening on the intersection of culture, community-building, and economic development! Register at allforall.world/Summit #ImmigrantsWelcome #AllforAllSummit2019 ... See MoreSee Less
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, centers on the idea of forgiveness. But what does forgiveness mean in the aftermath of a mass murder? On the first Yom Kippur after the Tree of Life synagogue shootings, what would a survivor say about forgiving the man who shot him and killed his friends? Hundreds of people -- overflowing the neat rows of chairs to sit …
With the long, drawn-out blasts from a shofar, or ram’s horn, more than 200 people ushered out the first day of Rosh Hashana on Monday, not with a traditional liturgy but with a practical guide to social justice at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh. The JCC’s Center for Loving Kindness hosted the event at the Squirrel Hill center through programming designed to appeal to …
A longstanding consensus on how to accommodate religious beliefs in government settings is breaking down as the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn longstanding precedent and allow greater role of religion in public life. Those were some of the observations of Nina Totenberg, the longtime legal affairs correspondent for NPR, at a forum on “The First Amendment for the 21st Century,” held Monday at the …
Daniel Tabares, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was presented with the first Loving Kindness Award at the JCC's Annual Meeting. Read the featured article in his high school's The Eagle Eye newspaper.
An interview with Rabbi Ron Symons
We strengthen the fabric of the community by amplifying the long-held values of Love your neighbor as yourself and Do not stand idle while your neighbor bleeds as we redefine Neighbor from a Geographic Term to a Moral Concept.
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As we turn the page on the calendar from Summer to Fall, from vacation to the academic year, from the old Jewish year 5779 to the new Jewish year 5780, the work of the Center for Loving Kindness are all the more relevant to the lives we lead in and around Pittsburgh. Planned throughout 2016 and 2017 and launched on August 28, 2017, to commemorate …
I need Shabbat this week because all I have heard is people talking over and through each other. I need Shabbat this week because all I have seen are images of children separated from their parents. I need Shabbat this week because all the values about family and human dignity I thought were foundational to our American way of life are being challenged. I need Shabbat this week …
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 and enjoyed by tens of thousands of school children. Seeking to …
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 them. The killers went on killing, the wise kept silent, as …
