Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

Sidney Busis, Jewish community leader, dies at 97https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/sidney-n-busis/ 

Families and those wounded in the October 27 attack will receive the bulk of the victim fundshttps://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/committee-releases-report-allocating-6-3-million-to-victims-of-oct-27-attack/ …

The Chronicle takes a stand on Pittsburgh Jews participating in the Women's March this Saturday.https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/womens-marchs-anti-semites/ …

Dilemma for Pittsburgh Jewish activists as local Women's March maintains affiliation with the national Women's March, which many see as anti-Semitic.https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitism-in-womens-march-complicates-matters-for-local-jews/ …

Pittsburgh Jewish Community study in-depth: beyond traditional synagogueshttps://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/studying-community-pittsburghers-finding-ways-to-worship-beyond-bounds-of-shul/ …

On Nov. 8, 1938, Kristallnacht, the German synagogue in Augsburg where Rabbi Walter Jacob’s father served as rabbi was set on fire by Nazis. Almost 80 years to the day, Jacob received a letter from German President Frank Walter Steinmeier.https://bit.ly/2K7DEsX 

Pizmon, the co-ed pluralistic Jewish a cappella group from Columbia University, Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, is coming to Pittsburgh to deliver a family-friendly concert.https://bit.ly/2Q2qpPR 

The affiliation agreement, which will end "unspoken tension" between the two groups, aims to increase efficiency and improve services for its residents and constituents.https://bit.ly/2zaNaaq 

Ken Feinberg, who administered the federal government’s fund for victims of 9/11 and several other recent gun-related tragedies, will now help leaders here.https://bit.ly/2RQvkjW 

The scope of the horror on the morning of Oct. 27 awoke a collective response among Pittsburgh’s Jewish communal organizations that might become a model for how other communities deal with tragedy.https://bit.ly/2DERdQs 

Community urged to report all anti-Semitic threats in the wake of Tree of Life murders.https://bit.ly/2qLtjtV 

While repairing the building is relatively “easy,” Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers said, the more difficult question is, “How do you rebuild your congregation?”https://bit.ly/2PqVsW9 

Guest columnist Audrey Glickman: "We are collecting ourselves to try to go on. Still, every time we pull up one strand of the fabric of our lives, another hits the ground."https://bit.ly/2RKNmEc 

Jeff Finkelstein, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation, shared words typically recited by a congregation upon completing each of the books of the Torah: chazak chazak v'nitchazek, “be strong, be strong and we will be strengthened.”https://bit.ly/2K3Iesx 

Jewish Pittsburgh mourned as a community — attending funerals, making shiva calls and remembering those whose lives were extinguished while congregants were in the midst of Shabbat prayers.https://bit.ly/2RIPFru 

Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, said there is no "golden formula" for dealing with the issue of Jewish hate. "The real formula is to stay together, to remember the collective."https://bit.ly/2Qv98eY 

"This is not a six degrees of separation community; this is a one degree of separation community. It’s really incredible."https://bit.ly/2DrYlj5