Month: March 2015

Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Young Leadership and the Future of Community

Friday, March 20, 2015
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Wednesday was a great day.  It started with a meeting and ended with an event. The morning meeting, a two hour gathering of a great group of committed lay leadership, engaged the group in serious discussion about our community and how to best address one of our communal priority areas in order to get the […]

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Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

The Plight of Jews in Ukraine

Friday, March 13, 2015
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I take much of the language in this week’s Shabbat message from a correspondence I received from our national system, the Jewish Federations of North America.  I know that for many of us our “Jewish attention” has been focused on our local Jewish community, on the Israeli elections and on growing anti-Semitism across Europe.  I […]

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Esther Did Not Sit Idly By

Friday, March 6, 2015
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The buzz this past week has been about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech in Congress.  Admittedly, there is a divide both within and from outside the Jewish community as to whether the Prime Minister should have given the speech at all.  There is debate about the right way to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat.  One thing […]

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