Five years of redefining neighbor as a moral concept across SWPA
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The Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement (CFLK) was established in August 2017 to strategically counter the demoralizing rhetoric of public discourse to 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.
We realize this goal by creating safe spaces in which neighbors can live in community with one another based on our shared humanity through real and perceived differences.
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Center for Loving Kindness - JCC Pittsburgh
5 days ago
This Shabbat, as the weather turns cold and our concerns a are still with community health, economy, and peace, we can celebrate Shabbat with a sense of hope that we are partners in making a better future. ... See MoreSee Less
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It has been five years and counting since we launched the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement (CFLK) at the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh. As we plan for the next five years, we will continue to be UPstanders who build safe spaces in which neighbors live with each other in community through our shared humanity across real and perceived differences.Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a global movement unleashing the power of generosity to change and impact communities and the world.People can show their kindness in a variety of ways during Giving Tuesday—whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or giving to causes—everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts. donate.jccpgh.org/give/260843/#!/donation/checkout ... See MoreSee Less
JCC Pittsburgh - South Hills
2 weeks ago
"I am thankful for my three kitties because they make me happy at the end of a long day, they snuggle and keep me toasty when it's cold outside, and they love me so much they make every day a good day!" - Melissa Hiller Center for Loving Kindness - JCC Pittsburgh ... See MoreSee Less
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As we celebrate this pre-Thanksgiving Shabbat, we are glad to welcome Marnie Fienberg, founder of 2 for Seder Marnie has an important message about the power of home rituals and family that applies to both Passover and Thanksgiving. ... See MoreSee Less
Last week, hundreds of neighbors came to the JCC in order to show compassion for our neighbors on the northside following the shooting during a funeral two weeks ago. Neighbors of all ages wrote their words of comfort on a banner, so that we could share the loving kindness. Zelda Curtiss and Leo Rees, two of our UPstanders who helped people signed the banner, accompanied Melissa Hiller and Rabbi Ron Symons as they delivered the banner to Rev. Brenda Gregg at Destiny of Faith Church. This is what we mean by redefining "neighbor" as a moral concept. ... See MoreSee Less
PITTSBURGH — WPXI-TV and Channel 11 News will be celebrating kindness in the Pittsburgh area all this week on television and here on WPXI.com in partnership with the Center For Loving Kindness and more than a dozen Starbucks locations across the area. At each of the Starbucks locations, patrons will see a sticker on their cups and food bags celebrating kindness, while customers inside the stores can …
PITTSBURGH — When tragedy struck Uvalde, Texas, this week, leaders in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community jumped into action. “When we heard about what was going on in Uvalde, what happened, for all of us as human beings, it just hit a core, that this is just wrong,” said Rabbi Ron Symons, the founding director of the Jewish Community Center’s Center for Loving Kindness. The Center for Loving Kindness …
The arguments about citizenship questions and deadlines, enumerators and computer forms, congressional districts and federal funding — it seems like a lifetime ago because of COVID, and yet the results will guide us for the next 10 years … until we get to census 2030 as mandated by the Constitution. In this week’s Torah portion, Pinchas, we again turn our attention to a census of ancient …
Welcome to our vision of community. It will be a strong fabric made up of threads of love and support. What do we mean when we say “love your neighbor as yourself”? How can we possibly love someone as much as ourselves? Isn’t that self-defeating? Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Jewish Personal and Social Ethics) teaches us that the meaning is not "love your neighbor like yourself”, but rather …
It has been five years and counting since we launched the Center for Loving Kindness and Civic Engagement (CFLK) at the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh. While our work was accelerated in the immediate aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA, we had started planning for the Center for Loving Kindness during 2016 as we became acutely aware of the changing nature …
While the punch line has changed over the years, the joke (and the underlying societal impression) is unfortunately still the same. While we were growing up, when we were asked what we would be getting Dad for Father’s Day, we always answered, “A tie.” Inevitably, that tie was either store bought with intentions of either meeting, stretching, or countering Dad’s fashion sense; or homemade out …
As our neighbors celebrate Juneteenth, we stand in solidarity as we work to redefine “neighbor” from a geographic term to a moral concept. We invite you to virtually attend this event in Atlanta on June 17 and revisit our north star framing of how we work for civil rights for all. View the virtual event here. Throughout the 125 year history of the Jewish Community Center of Greater …
