We recently celebrated Chanukah, a holiday filled with joy and light, and yet this year’s Festival of Lights saw some horrible attacks against the American Jewish community. In New York alone, there was an anti-Semitic attack every day in one … Read More
Human Resources Lee Chottiner Recently, after a program at my synagogue, I ducked into the Highlands Kroger to pick up a carton of milk before going home. I walked briskly to the dairy case, selected my item, then lined up … Read More
Human Resources Lee Chottiner Tu B’Av, the Jewish holiday of love, came and went this past weekend, and not a moment too soon. If you never heard of Tu B’Av, literally the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av, don’t … Read More
At 9:52 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers’ life changed forever. That was the time when the spiritual leader of Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh called 911 to report his synagogue was under … Read More
A shooting at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, a city in San Diego County, California, left one person dead and multiple people injured, including a child. Police there detained a white 19-year old San Diego man in connection with the shooting, … Read More
On an average Saturday morning at the Orthodox Ohel Tefillah synagogue on Chicago’s North Side, about 10 percent of the men carry a handgun. That number may seem high in a liberal city with some of the strictest gun laws … Read More
A Jewish Louisville native is in Pittsburgh this week, assisting Israeli first responders as they train local providers to care for a community coping with the fallout from a mass shooting. Cari Margulis Immerman, regional development director of the Friends … Read More
As the vigil for 11 worshippers killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue and two shoppers gunned down at the Jeffersontown Kroger got under way, Shalom Malka’s mind went to happier thoughts. He had attended Tree of Life, scene of Saturday’s carnage, … Read More