American Jewry

The Levys of Monticello

Sunday, July 30, 2023 @ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Lauri Ann West Community Center
1220 Powers Run Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15238 United States

Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with the Lauri Ann West Community Center and Adat Shalom Synagogue, presents THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO, a documentary film followed by a talk with Steven Pressman (Director & Producer) and Q&A. When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to […]

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Tu B’Av White Party

Saturday, July 29, 2023 @ 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EDT
Temple Sinai Bodek Rose Garden

Bring, or maybe meet your Bashert on Jewish Valentine’s Day! This event is for adults in their 20’s and 30’s. 

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Samuel Rosenberg, Painter: A Vision of the Hill 1930

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Barbara Long Jones, Curator Emerita at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, and Laurence Glascoe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss artist Samuel Rosenberg.  The talk begins at 7:00 P.M. and is open to the public. Rosenberg, a revered painter and teacher, spent his career in Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol, […]

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Kaufmann’s: From Peddlers to Prosperity

Thursday, November 3, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Join Rodef Shalom Congregation’s Archivist Martha L. Berg in a conversation with Marylynne Pitz and Laura Malt Schneiderman of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about their new book on the family behind the famed Kaufmann’s department store.

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Two Great Problems Face American Jewry

Thursday, April 25 @ 5:01 AM EDT

How “Israeliness” can play a role in securing the future of American Jewry. Read about it in The Tower…

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