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t would be a Chanukah miracle if Jewish Pittsburghers could attend all of the Festival of Lights celebrations taking place throughout the area this season. That’s because every congregation and Jewish institution seems to offer the chance to view a Chanukiah lighting, spin a dreidel, eat a donut or partake in other traditions associated with the holiday. For starters, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is hosting a Chanukah Bash — before the holiday begins — at the Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Liberty Ave., on Saturday, Dec. 17, from 8–11 p.m. The Federation invites the community to “enjoy music, traditional foods, drinks, carnival games and prizes with old friends and new,” along with a few surpises. The cost is $25. Chabad of Greenfield kicks off its revelries with a community celebration on Sunday, Dec. 18, at 4 p.m. at the new Yeshiva School at 403 Greenfield Ave. The festivities include a giant gelt drop, dancing dreidels, Chanukah music, donuts, latkes, an appearance by Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and other city officials, and the lighting of a 7-foot menorah constructed completely from Legos. On Monday, Dec. 19, teens can participate in a Choco-Lit Covered Chanukah at Chabad of Greenfield, 4315 Murray Ave., at 7:30 p.m., including a menorah lighting, donut decorating and hot chocolate bar. On Dec. 20, the Lego menorah will take a
short ride to Schenley Plaza in Oakland for the Chanukah Festival where Chabad of Greenfield will be joined by Chabad of Squirrel Hill and the Lubavitch Center for a special performance by Jewish recording artist Tali Yess, a children’s choir, the Allderdice High School Marching Band and, of course, latkes and donuts. All three Chabad organizations will begin the evening at 4:45 p.m. with the annual Chanukah Menorah Parade. This year, the parade has a new route, beginning in the Jewish Association on Aging parking lot near The New Riverview. It will wind through Squirrel Hill and Oakland before ending at the Chanukah Festival in Schenley Park. Chabad of Greenfield’s public celebrations end Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 4:30 p.m. with a family Chanukah party featuring a hot dog and latke dinner, holiday crafts, donut decorating and an olive press workshop. And Rabbi Eli Wilansky will bring his olive press to several schools and senior living facilities, as well. Doubling down on mitzvot, Chabad of Squirrel Hill is lighting a “can-orah” on the corner of Beacon and Murray on Sunday, Dec. 18. Made of cans donated at Chabad’s Giving Kitchen, all of the food collected will be given to the Squirrel Hill Food Pantry. A day later, Chabad of Squirrel Hill will light a menorah downtown at the portico of the City County Building with Mayor Gainey at 5 p.m. Please see Chanukah, page 15
Parkway Jewish Center is selling the building it has called home for 67 years.
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hat’s left when a congregation with a dwindling membership decides to sell its building after 67 years, abandon the generations of memories it represents and move to a new location? Ask Lynda Heyman, and she’ll give you a simple answer: Family. Heyman has served on the Parkway Jewish Center’s executive committee, along with Hal Lederman and Lauri Barnett Levine, since its president retired several years ago and the congregation decided to lead by consensus. The Conservative congregation, located in the city’s Eastern suburbs, recently decided to sell its building and relocate a few miles away to Penn Center in Wilkins Township. The synagogue is being sold to Sri Venkateswara Temple, a nearby Hindu temple, Heyman said. Parkway will remain viable as a congregation, though, sustaining the relationships formed in the building since it opened in 1955. “Parkway is so much more than a synagogue,” Heyman said. “It’s a family. It is truly a family. That’s why we have members who have moved away but are still members because they can’t give up on Parkway.” The congregation’s members have been linked through the years by the bar and bat mitzvahs, consecrations, baby Please see Parkway, page 15
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