Women’s Philanthropy mitzvah group makes mosaic for Israel

By Billy Thompson
Digital Marketing and Graphic Design Associate

The Jewish Federation’s connection to Israel is exemplified in its Partnership2Gether relationship with Israel’s Yoav region. To celebrate this, Women’s Philanthropy gathered to hear Connor Hayes, director of community p…

Yoav artists visiting for week of workshops and bonding

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

“In every work of art, something divine reveals itself,” said the 20th-century Jewish theologian and philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. “Art is the partnership between the divine and human in the service of unity.” 

It’s fitting, then, that at thi…

You're just 2 or 3 degrees of separation from a hostage

By Max Averbach
Special to Hakol

In 1980-81, during the Iran hostage crisis, Walter Cronkite, America’s most renowned news anchor, ended every segment of his show, CBS Evening News, with the number of days the hostages had been held captive in Iran. Since October 7, Jewish communities acr…

PBS film will show Valley how Pittsburgh rebounded from Tree of Life attack

By Carl Zebrowski
Editor

First came horror to the Pittsburgh Jewish community, when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue on the Shabbat morning of October 28, 2018. By the time his shooting spree ended, he’d killed 11 and wounded 6. 

Then came hope and resolve.  In the aftermath…

ADL to train teens and parents how to challenge antisemitism

The Anti-Defamation League will present a workshop on Sunday, September 29, designed to teach Jewish middle and high school kids and their family members to recognize antisemitism and anti-Israel bias and to provide tools to challenge them. 

The Words to Action workshop, which will start a…