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The Global Planning Table (GPT) and Aly Raisman have so much in common. Most of you haven't heard of the Global Planning Table. It is a new national process taking place by the Federation movement to determine how best to allocate and invest our collective dollars towards impacting…
Chazak Chazak v'nitchazek (Be Strong, Be Strong, and may we be strengthened) The above words are announced with great strength and conviction by the congregation upon the conclusion of the reading of each of the five books of the Torah during the annual cycle.
I experienced two great wins this week. Last night, I attended the annual Central Scholarship Check distribution gathering. Central Scholarship, a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, is administered by Jewish Family and Children's Service and is the largest college…
One of the Facebook groups to which I belong (in addition to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s page) is called “The Old Shoppers’ World Was Better”. Shoppers’ World was one of the earliest shopping malls in the country and was just around the block from where I grew…
Lou Plung, our Chair of the Board, and I had lunch this week with a majority of our community's members of the Jewish Federations of North America National Young Leadership Cabinet. As background, "Cabinet" is a national leadership development and recognition program. These members are…
