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By Justin Vellucci January 25, 2021, 2:36 pm Edit
Marilyn Weinblum stands next to the case displaying Jakob s Torah at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in 2001. (Photo provided by Marilyn Weinblum)
It was the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, and throughout Nazi-controlled Germany, government-sanctioned violence was leading to destroyed synagogues, social unrest and the arrest of thousands of Jewish citizens. That night would become known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.
Jakob Weinblum, a Jewish teenager born in Forst (Lausitz), Germany, risked his life that night to flee to his shul, where he managed to save its cherished Torah scroll before the building was burned. In 1939, the Torah accompanied him and his family to the only country taking Jews without passports China. After eight years in a makeshift Shanghai synagogue, the Torah traveled, along with Jakob, to the U.S. and eventually found a home at Tree of Life-Sf
Pennsylvania legislators must reject a dangerous bill to extend gerrymandering into the courts | PennLive letters
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
By Members of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, Pittsburgh and Southeastern PA
As members of Bend the Arc Jewish Action in Pennsylvania, we follow our state legislative races closely. Time and again, we have been frustrated by statewide gerrymandering that forces some Pennsylvanians to work disproportionately harder to elect candidates who share their values. This gerrymandering has long compromised every Pennsylvanian’s right to equal representation in our state government.
Now, the Pennsylvania Legislature is considering a dangerous new judicial gerrymandering bill that will extend gerrymandering into our court system. Fair and independent courts form the basis for our democracy, but House Bill 38, which just passed out of the House Judiciary Committee and could be passed in the legislature as early as next week, would undermine the impartiality o