In-Person Yahrzeit Torah Study for Jewish Pittsburgh

This commemorative Torah study honors the yahrzeit of the eleven people who were killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. This in-person Torah study will take place at the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill at 6:30pm. We will begin with a Havdalah followed by Torah study beginning at 7pm. A light nosh will be provided.

Please register by clicking here if you are able. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Torah study sessions will include:

The Jewish Situation: How the American sitcom both informed and obscured Jewish identity, from production to character representation
This session will be led by Charlie White, who is an artist and academic and head of school and professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Charlie has over 20 years of academic leadership experience, while his career as an artist and creative producer spans three decades of exhibitions, film, media production, and fashion.

Songs That Carry Us: Healing and Resilience in Jewish Cultures

This Torah study session will be led by Naama Perel-Tzadok, who is a versatile composer, conductor, and performer whose works have been performed in Israel and around the world. A Doctoral Candidate in Music Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and an ISEF Doctoral Fellow, she investigates the acoustic relationship between music and language.

Rav Lach Shevet: My Fraught Relationship with Lecha Dodi

This Torah Study will be led by Dr. Weinkle, who is an internist and pediatrician who practices primary care and serves as Chief Medical Officer at the Squirrel Hill Health Center in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Medicine-Pediatrics residency at UPMC Shadyside and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Weinkle serves as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and as a part-time instructor in Pitt’s Department of Religious Studies and the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine certificate program. He is the author of the books “Healing People, Not Patients: Creating Authentic Relationships in Modern Healthcare” and “From Illness to Exodus.” He is the creator of the website www.healerswholisten.com, the podcast “Healing People, Not Patients,” and he posts frequent blogs on the crossroads between healing and Jewish tradition.