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NEW Fitness + Wellness Programs at the South Hills JCC

We're revving up for the New Year with new classes and programs for a New You! Classes start soon so sign up today! Be sure check out all of our Group Exercise classes--  many are free with JCC Membership!   For Youth: Teen Fitness Certification Contact Steve Manns, 412-278-1783 to schedule an appointment. This 90-minute orientation MUST be completed by teens prior to using the facility. $45/group session First Sunday of the month, 1:30 …

UPstander Opportunities: Be a Contact Tracer; Vaccine Trials

You can be an UPstander by being a Contact Tracer. This is LIFE SUSTAINING WORK Project UPstander activates community members to provide acknowledgement, understanding and support for neighbors facing challenges as a result of one-time and/or on-going hateful acts, natural disasters, violence or intolerance that threaten the integrity of the community. While our natural inclination might be to say, “It’s o.k. if I don’t do something. Someone …

AgeWell at the JCC Presents VSA – Online Classes for Everyone!

Virtual Senior Academy – Online Classes for Everyone! Featured: Tuesdays: Social Justice: Eternal Values Applied to Contemporary Issues with Rabbi Ron Symons Thursdays: Quarantine Stories  Art and Quarantine Stories with Melissa Hiller If you are interested in joining: Sign up on the Virtual Senior Academy website www.virtualsenioracademy.org For more details, email Maddie Barnes at [email protected] or call 412-697-1186.

Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition Annual Neighborhood Meeting and Open House

Calling all SHUC members, friends, and neighbors: You are cordially invited to the 2017 Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition Annual Neighborhood Meeting and Open House! The annual meeting will on the topic, Transportation Safety and Mobility: Moving Safely and efficiently in Squirrel Hill. Director Karina Ricks from the newly formed City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI), and Mark Magalotti, professor and coordinator from University of …

Dayenu! Have we done enough yet?

On Friday night, as my family and guests retold the time-honored story of our journey from slavery to freedom, my son Micah inserted his seder gift into the festivities.  He explained how he had been studying Civil War history in school and thought that it might be appropriate to read the Emancipation Proclamation at the seder. The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 By the President of the United …

NEW DATE – The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

An Ecumenical Service of Holy Communion & Call for Anti-racist Action Sunday, April 3 @ 4 pm Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church, 517 Sangree Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15237 & Livestreamed https://www.swpasynod.org/mlk2022 PRESIDING - Bishop Abraham Allende, Acting Bishop, SWPA Synod PREACHING - Rev. Lamont Wells, ELCA Program Director, LuMin / Campus Ministry    

What will they say when?

What if they are writing my eulogy today? Not to be morbid, but it is time for me to start thinking about what they might say at my funeral.  Trust me, I have many years left, (God willing), but it is still time to think. I got to thinking about this when I stood in front of a replica of the very simple mule drawn wagon that …

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