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<i>Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 / JTA<br> Conservative Jewish women wear prayer shawls and carry Torah scrolls at the Western Wall, Dec. 18, 2009. The conflict between these women and religious Jews in Israel has sparked different responses from local Jews. Courtesy Yossi Zamir, JTA. </i> Action or silence?
On a January morning in 1994, Judy Palkovitz was getting ready to pray. It was just after 6 a.m., and along with 16 other women, she’d walked through Jerusalem towards the Western Wall, the holies...
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<i>aMax & David’s International Kosher Cuisine in Elkins Park, Pa., is the first restaurant in the state to be Tav HaYosher certified.</i> Ethical kosher seal comes to Pa., but will it catch on?
Hanging next to the bathroom in Max and David’s International Kosher Cuisine, a two-year-old upscale eatery in Elkins Park, Pa., you’ll find a veritable hall of fame, “certificates that we like t...
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Coming up in Jewish Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee is presenting a conversation on “Jews in Interfaith Dialogue: Confidently Talking with Others About Ourselves,” along with the Agency for Jewish Learning in a se...
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<i>Courtesy of Sora Jederan-Shpack<br> Sora Jederan-Shpack (center) talked with Israeli president Shimon Peres on her last day of work at Ramat Rachel. “All the walls are only mistakes. Peace is the only hope,” he said, as Jederan-Shpack remembers. </i> Deuteronomy, Shimon Peres inspire adult CMU student’s opera
When she first decided she wanted to compose an opera, Sora Jederan-Shpack made a list of all the topics she thought would make good fodder, specifically excluding anything having to do with relig...
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JDC exec visits Pittsburgh to talk of aiding forgotten Jews
Arriving in Pittsburgh yesterday, Steve Schwager, chief executive officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, spoke with community leaders and major donors this week about pushin...
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Survivor’s cookbook supports Israel soup kitchen, links generations
A soup kitchen changed Joanne Caras’ life, but not because she needed food. She needed to feed the souls of the international Jewish community. She just didn’t know it at the time. Caras, a Florid...
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Local Israelis speak out on expatriate voting bill
Thirty-five years ago, when Tzvi Shuldiner first emigrated to America from Israel after the Yom Kippur War, his first reaction wasn’t awe, or extreme joy or remorse. It was a bit of confusion. “P...
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Jewish pharmacist runs ‘green’ pharmacy in Pittsburgh
Your local Rite Aid, this ain’t. At the Murray Avenue Apothecary they make their own compounds; they sell whole food-based vitamins and other organic supplements; they built the Greenfield-based s...
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<i>Rabbi Alysa Stanton</i> First female black rabbi tells her story at Pitt
At an age when most kids are contemplating what they’ll do during recess, Alysa Stanton was contemplating which religion was right for her. She was 9 when she called a priest out of the blue to di...
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Pittsburgh Public Thea... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
This Arthur Miller play about two estrange...
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Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival Op...