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PJ Library Celebrates Authors & Illustrators Week

With the week of February 5th being Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week, what better opportunity than to highlight a few of my favorite PJ Library books!  As the director of PJ Library in Pittsburgh, I get the privilege of receiving nine wonderful, high quality Jewish children’s books every month - one for each age group from 6 months to age 8, and then one for …

PJ Library Launches New Program: PJ our Way

PJ Library, a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh in partnership with the JCC, is expanding! A new program, PJ Our Way, will provide books to children ages 9-11 who live in the Pittsburgh community, bringing Jewish books into older children’s lives as effectively as PJ Library has done with younger children over the last ten years. Building on the success of PJ Library, which …

Father’s Day Pledge: Breaking the Cycle of Violence

Let’s Continue the Movement of Men Stepping Up to Stop Gender Violence  For the third year in a row, we are joining with dozens of other regional leaders in signing the Father’s Day Pledge #FathersDayPledge  #PAsaysNoMore This vow to break the generational cycle of violence for children, teens and young adults calls on all of us to change public attitudes and social norms around gender and partner …

Training for the Big Swim

Final Training Report - August 20, 2018 It still hasn’t set in, I don’t think it ever will. It’s crazy, absolute bananas that I swam Lake Erie on August 4. It took me 10 hours 56 minutes and 45 seconds to do. Never did it occur to me that I would have a shot at the record, I was hoping to be around 12-13 hours. I …

Critical Needs Alert #ONEDAY

What a difference #ONEDAY makes! The JCC is thankful to be taking part in the 2020 Critical Needs Alert online giving event at www.pittsburghgives.org/jccpittsburgh on Aug. 19 from 8 am to 11:59 pm. Donations made on #ONEDAY, which is hosted by the Pittsburgh Foundation, will be matched. In these times of unprecedented economic, health and human services challenges, meeting basic needs has become even more crucial and …

New Year, New You!

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Project CommUNITY Town Hall, Parkland to Pittsburgh: Stronger Together

PITTSBURGH — How does a community survive a devastating tragedy? From Parkland, Florida, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tragedies are forcing neighborhoods to examine issues that divide and unite them. On April 9 at 8 p.m., WTAE Channel 4 presents A Project CommUNITY Town Hall, Parkland to Pittsburgh: Stronger Together, in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s Center for Loving Kindness. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 …

The Sum of Us, Not Just Some of Us

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 …

Hanukkah celebration provides opportunity to observe similarities

Religious celebrations don’t have to focus on what sets us apart. They can also celebrate what we have in common. That was the message at the kickoff of Hanukkah at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill, as Jewish and Muslim members of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom shared similarities in their customs, beliefs and language. The similarities, they noted, far outnumber the …