6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (147+ words) There is a great reckoning occurring in America today. It involves the destruction of Palestine, which in turn, is destroying faith among the religious right " destroying faith in Israel and Christian Zionism. In the last several years there has been…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (656+ words) Even with frigid temperatures, the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroeville celebrated its 10th annual Light Up the Night on Dec. 15 in Community Park West. The evening marked the second night of Hanukkah, which starts on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (584+ words) Even people who don't celebrate Passover have been exposed to lessons from Exodus (if only through Cecil B. De Mille's "The Ten Commandments), but some of us retain water better than we retain the significance of the parting of the Red…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (468+ words) Passover, or "Pesach" in Hebrew, begins this week, marking one of the most widely observed holidays in Judaism. Here is what to know about the tradition, its meaning and how it's celebrated. What is the story of Passover? Passover is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (404+ words) Fifty years ago, a signup sheet was posted in Krebs Hall at the University of Pittsburgh's Johnstown campus, asking Jewish students to kindly provide their names. A friend of mine was a recent arrival at the campus. She saw the…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (473+ words) Laurel: To redding up. Fox Chapel senior Kabeer Chopra and the volunteers behind Green Bridge 412 are proving that cleaning up the environment can start with one person noticing a problem and doing something about it. What began after Chopra saw…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (508+ words) When Burrell High School senior Lily Sassani wanted to bring light to little-known stories about Girl Scouts" role in society during the Holocaust, she turned to history books. After two years of research, writing and interviews, she shaped her findings…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (437+ words) MINNEAPOLIS " U. S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether Gregory Bovino, the one-time architect of President Donald Trump's large-scale immigration crackdown, made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith of the U. S. attorney for Minnesota. "Following a letter from…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (711+ words) Among them is Terez'n, a small Czech Republic town about 50 miles north of the capital city, Prague, and once was home to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, a Nazi transit hub for deporting Jewish people to concentration camps and killing centers. "That…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (133+ words) Students from Aquinas Academy, an elementary school adjacent to Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Greensburg, were among hundreds of people to visit the cathedral for Ash Wednesday services. Repeated drug deals nets Trafford man prison sentence Hundreds attend Ash Wednesday services…...