Last month the 10.27 Healing Partnership staff utilized the Jewish Community Center’s new policy of volunteer time off to volunteer for Hello Neighbor, a local organization that supports incoming refugees and immigrants and helps them make Pittsburgh their home. On Jan. 31st we helped staff prepare an apartment for a Sudanese family who had been temporarily placed in a hotel after spending...

Hello Friend, On Monday I attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Vigil and Inauguration Prayer at the Christian Church of Wilkinsburg. I carried with me anxiety for all immigrants and refugees living in Pittsburgh and beyond. Support for our refugee and immigrant neighbors has always held a special place for many in our local Jewish Pittsburgh community, from the Irene Kaufmann...

Hello Friend, The staff of the 10.27 Healing Partnership wish you a warm and happy holiday season! The timing of the holidays this year feel fortuitous to me. Since Jewish holidays follow the Hebrew calendar, they fall on different dates on the Gregorian calendar every year. This year, Chanukah starts on December 25th and ends on January 1st; it begins at the same time as Christmas, ends on New...

Hello Friend, Around this time of year, the word “should” comes up a lot. We “should” find ways to engage in thankfulness, we should feel grateful, and we should spend time with family and friends and feel happy for what we have. I know that gratitude is good; it is powerful and soul-fulfilling and can be a tool of both self-love and tikkun olam. When we feel we are most in darkness, gratitude...

Hello Friend,  On the 18th of Cheshvan (November 18th and 19th on the Gregorian calendar) we will be holding community Torah study in honor of the yahrzeit of the eleven people who were killed in the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. The 10.27 Healing Partnership is collaborating with Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji, Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the...

Hello Friend,Thank you for being a part of our community. We join together annually to commemorate the eleven lives taken on Oct. 27, 2018. We gather to stand in solidarity with the families of those who were killed and the survivors of the shooting and to take steps to create a kinder world. We remember and seek to honor those who were killed every day, but commemoration...

Hello Friend, The annual commemoration of the synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018 aims to honor those who were killed, support those who survived and those whose family members were killed, and to be a gathering place for the community to join in remembrance. Commemoration is always evolving to meet ever-changing needs, and the process of planning it is led by the 10.27 Healing Partnership...

Hello Friend,  We have some amazing programs coming up at the 10.27 Healing Partnership that I’m excited to share with you. The first is “Preparing the Heart and Mind,” our Rosh Chodesh Elul program in collaboration with Jewish Life at the JCC. The month of Tishrei on the Jewish calendar will arrive soon, shifting our calendars and seasons with the Jewish New Year....

Commemorative Donation Drive for the Bridgeville LA Fitness Shooting Support our neighbors on the fifteenth anniversary of the mass shooting in Collier Township On August 4th, 2009, a shooter entered the LA Fitness located in Bridgeville, just minutes outside of Pittsburgh, and killed three victims and injured nine others. The shooter was motivated by a hatred against women, and the mass...