Adam Reinherz
By Adam Reinherz
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News Civil War Passover Seder memorialized in West Virginia
'What a scene ensued in our little congregation, it is impossible for my pen to describe,' wrote one of the soldiers
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News Yahrzeit plaques and other mementos collected, as Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life prepares for future
Ninety-minute window on March 19 afforded community chance to retrieve items, pay respects, before building transitions
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Fast Forward After tweaking rituals during the pandemic, a Jewish burial society in Pittsburgh has made amends
PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Tahara, the act of washing and purifying the deceased, is paramount to Jewish burial. So when the pandemic descended on the United States in March 2020, members of a Pittsburgh-based Jewish burial society devoted to the practice made a difficult decision. Given fears of COVID-19 transmission, members of…
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Opinion ‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes
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Opinion Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
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Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
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