Did You Hear?

This piece written by Eric Finger hut, CEO of the JFNA appeared in a daily newsletter (ejewishphilanthropy.com) and demonstrates again the power of working collectively, something that is at the core of how our Pittsburgh Jewish community functions.

I am not psychologist (I am married to one) but it seemed almost like a mild PTSD-type reaction.

We want to encourage as many of our community members to participate in the GA on October 25 and 26.

Today, I want to look at some of the positive things to hopefully pick us all up.

Thank you to you, our donors, for the role you play in enabling the unimaginable to be a reality.

If Jews could blow the shofar with hope for the year ahead on Rosh HaShanah 1945, then so can we.

I write this message on a tragic day for America as we remember those murdered nineteen years ago.

How prescient our founders were, when they appointed the first Holocaust Center director in September 1980, forty years ago this month.

As Yom Kippur approaches, people may greet each other by saying Tzom Kal, which means “Have an easy fast.”

The Hebrew word for repentance is teshuvah, which literally means “return.”