It’s nearly impossible to think about American comedy without thinking about the many Jews who have contributed to it. Similarly, it’s hard to conceive of secular Jewish American culture without…
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HIAS, the world’s oldest refugee agency, was incorporated in 1903 as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Reflecting Jewish ethics, it found ways to help fellow Jews in a hostile world….
How old are you? Okay, but how old do you feel? Is there another age you associate with yourself in your mind? What do you like about being your age?…
Throughout American history, numerous agnostic and atheist “hidden figures” within the African American community such as Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, James Baldwin, Zora Neal Hurston and Lorraine Hansberry have…
If you attended a typical American Jewish wedding in the 1950s, you might have noticed some new “rituals,” such as a photographer buzzing around the rabbi, a floral wedding canopy,…
Come join us for Shabbat and stay for a wonderful cultural program about SHJ’s Role Model of the Year, Johnny Clegg — South African musician, anthropologist, humanist and anti-apartheid activist. Clegg…
The Real Story of our Ancestral Towns and What’s Happening There Today Most Jews around the world can trace their roots to small towns in Eastern Europe. Before they made…
Have you ever done an about-face on an opinion you strongly held, a commitment you took for granted, a project you’d sworn to see to the end? A panel of…
This Friday’s program will be dedicated to processing the war in Israel and Gaza. The City Congregation is a volunteer led organization, much of our programming relies directly on our…
On August 1st, 2023, Robert Bowers was sentenced to death for his massacre of 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. For the Jewish community, the majority…