Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform Judaism in Germany, dies at 94
A refugee from Nazi Germany who returned to create a seminary for Liberal rabbis
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In Pennsylvania’s second city, a tight-knit Jewish community grapples with traumas past and present
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Fast Forward Police and FBI investigating second antisemitic assault at University of Pittsburgh in weeks
A student told police that a group of men assaulted him after first making derogatory comments about Israel
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Fast Forward Man arrested after allegedly attacking Jewish students at University of Pittsburgh
The campus Hillel said the injured students were part of a group walking to Shabbat dinner together
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Israel-boycott referendum is dead after DSA declines to defend it in court
The local federation and multiple rabbis had filed legal challenges to the referendum
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish groups hope to quash a referendum that would force the city to boycott Israel
Though unlikely to make the ballot, the referendum has prompted a top staffer in the mayor’s office who supported it to resign
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish community targeted with antisemitic graffiti
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Chabad of Squirrel Hill were vandalized
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