A dozen Jewish centers and synagogues across Allegheny County have been awarded more than $953,000 in state funding to boost security, and additional money is going to other cultural centers in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. This includes $150,000 for the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, site of the
Shocking surveillance video captures the moment a woman used a hammer to bash the front window of a Pittsburgh business that displayed a sign reading, “We stand with Israel.”
Each of the nine towers represented a candle in the menorah. And each of the towers was built from dozens of cans of vegetables and fruit. Green beans, diced potatoes, yams and corn. Pineapple, plums, tomatoes and chick peas. And atop one branch, sat a flame, representing the first night
In a climate of increasing antisemitism, the menorah represents defiance against hate, as it did 2,000 years ago when the Maccabees overthrew their Greek-Syrian oppressors.