Passover

Counting the Omer Yoga with Tiferet

Sunday, April 28 @ 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Congregation Beth Shalom
5915 Beacon Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 United States

Join us for seven weekly yoga sessions, each session will be held in the Zweig Library at Beth Shalom. In collaboration with Congregation Beth Shalom, Tiferet Project is leading a yoga series that explores this week by week countdown from Passover to Shavuot. The countdown links the freedom and liberation of Passover with the revelation […]

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Young boy at Passover Seder

Questioning Strengthens and Improves Our Community

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

I am proud of the questions we here in Pittsburgh have been asking.

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Passover Seder Plate Items|

Neither Had They Made for Themselves Provisions

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

Yet, while I eagerly look forward to the seders, I can’t purge what I experienced in Poland and at the Ukrainian border out of my mind.

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Stronger Than Hate Day Declared April 10 2019

Being Present in a Moment of History

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

The Jewish Federation’s Community Relations Council (CRC) invited all the family members of those who were killed and those who were injured along with the leadership of the three congregations to join us on a Federation arranged bus to and from Harrisburg to participate in an historic joint session of the House and Senate.

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Passover Bitter Herbs|Dr. Erica Brown

A Passover Prayer Against Anti-Semitism

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

A Passover Prayer Against Antisemitism: In every generation, they seek to destroy us, but they have not destroyed us.

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Chag Sameach

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

We are still in the midst of the holiday of Passover, celebrating the freedom of the Jewish people.  I write to you today about a program taking place next Thursday that commemorates one of the most tragic chapters in Jewish history – the Shoah (the Holocaust). Yom HaShoah will be commemorated on Thursday, May 5th at 7 pm […]

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Honoring Holocaust Victims, Fallen Soldiers, Israeli Independence, and So Much More

Sunday, April 28 @ 2:28 AM EDT

Passover ends and immediately the activity in the Jewish community starts to move at a frantic pace.  The number of events, programs and meetings is beyond belief and is a testament to the kind of engaged and interested community we have. I would only mention one such event from this past week, the Yom Hashoah […]

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