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Shabbat Shalom, Friday October 19, 2012

The Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the August Wilson Center opened a new exhibit entitled "The Nazi Olympics" this week at the August Wilson Center.  The exhibit comes directly from the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.  The opening event was…

Shabbat Shalom - Friday, Oct 12, 2012

The Federation held a beautiful and inspiring Annual Meeting this past week. In my speech, I wanted to address a simple question - Why Federation? What is our value proposition?

Shabbat Shalom, Friday, October 5, 2012

Next week, the Jewish people will celebrate Simchat Torah when we will both complete the annual cycle of reading the Torah and begin again from “In the Beginning…”

Shabbat Shalom, Friday September 28, 2012

As I was standing at my synagogue for the Ne’ilah service at the close of Yom Kippur, I leaned over to my son to show him how the liturgy changes from what we had been saying from Rosh Hashana up until this final service with the language switching from using the word "Katveinu" to…

Shabbat (Teshuva) Shalom - Friday, September 21, 2012

I know it can be tough to say “I’m sorry”.  It admits one made a mistake.  It takes personal responsibility for that error.