Month: December 2014

Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

A Powerful Collective

Friday, December 19, 2014
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Over the past few years, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh has sent several missions to Cuba.  We witnessed a small yet vibrant Jewish community and saw the work our dollars make possible with our own eyes.  As part of those missions, we visited the American Intersection.  As you know, the United States has not […]

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Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

What a Week!

Friday, December 12, 2014
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Sunday night was the graduation of this year’s cohort of Diller Teen Fellows.  This group of 20, who have been together with a group of teens from our Partnership2Gether Region of Karmiel and Misgav as part of a leadership development program, will travel to Israel in a few weeks.  Their originally scheduled trip this summer had […]

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Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our Jewish Future is Inevitable – Make it Bright!

Friday, December 5, 2014
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I write today about our Jewish future and about two ways our Federation is looking and preparing for that destination. Monday was the first Pittsburgh Jewish Community Scorecard Roundtable.  Approximately 65 volunteer and professional leaders in our community came together to review some of the findings in our first round of collecting data as part […]

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