A group of 40 rabbis and cantors from the Pittsburgh region are denouncing recent votes by U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, in connection with the Israel/Hamas war. Rabbi Dan Fellman of Temple Sinai in Squirrel Hill organized an open letter, released today, and said its signatories represent a broad swath
Antisemitic fliers passed out in a park and placed on car windshields. Swastikas painted on the sides of buildings and etched into playground equipment. Bomb threats to synagogues. Slurs shouted at Jewish worshippers. The Anti-Defamation League documented all of those incidents in Pittsburgh during the last few months of last
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
“My overarching hope is that congregants will find spiritual renewal in the process of teshuvah and words of wisdom applicable to their lives from the sermons." Rabbi Aaron Meyer