Calendar >> Submit calendar items on the Chronicle’s website, pittsburghjewishchronicle.org. Submissions will also be included in print. Events will run in the print edition beginning one month prior to the date. The deadline for submissions is Friday, noon. q SATURDAY, MARCH 10 Niki Penberg, co-founder of Vegan Pittsburgh, talks about the ease of finding vegan meals at restaurants around the city at 12:30 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Participants will sample several dishes from local area restaurants. Visit rodefshalom.org for more information. Game Day from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Moishe House. Who will win the Scrabble Championship? Contact moishehousepgh@ gmail.com for the address. The Taste of Westmoreland is set for 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Student Union (Chambers Hall) at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg. The cost is $25 and $20 (for advance purchases of 10 or more). Children 12 and under are $10. This is the 25th year that Congregation Emanu-El Israel brings the “Taste� to Westmoreland County. More than 800 people are expected to visit to taste the specialties of some 20 restaurants and caterers of Westmoreland County. Anyone bringing canned and/or nonperishable items for the Westmoreland County Food Bank will receive one free ticket for the raffle basket auction. Visit ceigreensburg.org/taste or call the CEI office at 724-834-0560 for more information.
Historian David Rosenberg presents the newest exhibition at Temple Emanuel’s Thou Art Gallery, “Who Is a Jew? Amiens, France, 1940-1945,� at 7 p.m. The exhibition focuses on a set of photo identification cards of Jews from Amiens and its region to explore how French Jews self-identified when forced to register during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Temple Emanuel of South Hills presents the event in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. There is no charge. Visit templeemanuelpgh.org for more information. There will be a wine and cheese opening reception, as well as a brief talk with Rosenberg. After winning the City Championship, the Pittsburgh Allderdice basketball team, with Jackson Blaufeld, will play in the state playoffs against Mt. Lebanon at 4 p.m. at Pittsburgh Obama High School. q SUNDAY, MARCH 11 The Emergency Volunteers Project (EVP) is assembling a team of volunteers from Pittsburgh for deployment to Israel if needed during a crisis, including natural disasters. Together with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Partnership2Gether (P2G) and the cities of Karmiel and Misgav, volunteers will be certified by EVP to become local and international first responders. The training will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Pittsburgh Fire Training facility, 1395 Washington Blvd. Contact Debbie Swartz at dswartz@jfedpgh.org or 412-992-5208 for more information; visit tinyurl.com/ y8tpcmym to register.
q SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Rodef Shalom Sisterhood Movie Night will screen “Bagels Over Berlin,� directed by filmmaker Alan Feinberg, who will attend and introduce the film at 7:30 p.m. “Bagels Over Berlin� is a documentary that tells the story of the Jewish young men who joined the U.S. Army Air Corp just as the United States was entering the war against Hitler and Germany. Through interviews with 30 Jewish war veterans the film reveals the anti-Semitism and discrimination these young airmen encountered as well as being in the military branch with the highest mortality rate in the first part of the war. The film is entirely in English and open to the community at no charge. Light refreshments will be served afterward along with an informal discussion with the director. Contact Rodef Shalom at 412-6216566 for more information and to RSVP. Rodef Shalom Brotherhood’s Pancake Breakfast is set for 8:30 a.m. to noon at 4905 Fifth Ave. Proceeds will help the congregation and community with needed projects. The money collected will help to rebuild the congregation’s playground and keep the Howard Levin Clubhouse running and more. The cost is $5 per person, $15 per family. Contact rmeritzer@gmail.com for more information. J-Serve Pittsburgh is a teen-planned day of Jewish community service, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., attended each year by 300 Jewish teens in sixth to 12th grade from around greater Pittsburgh. Teens meet at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill for breakfast and a learning session led by peers. They then volunteer
at more than 15 local service locations for several hours before returning to the JCC for lunch and celebration. Transportation to the Squirrel Hill JCC for the event is available from the South Hills JCC, Adat Shalom, Temple David and Temple Ohav Shalom. J-Serve Pittsburgh is a partnership of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, Repair the World: Pittsburgh, BBYO and the Volunteer Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. Visit tinyurl.com/ycd27two for more information and to register. Congregation Dor Hadash will present a lecture by Misha Angrist titled “Steering the Wind: Genetic Screening in Jewish Please see Calendar, page 7
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