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Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation (Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים – אוֹר לְשִׂמְחָה [1]) is a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The congregation moved into its present synagogue building in 1953.
Squirrel Hill contains three Jewish day schools: two are affiliated with the Chabad and Modern Orthodox movements, respectively, [31] [32] while Community Day School is a co-ed, independent Jewish day school in the neighborhood that attracts families across the wide spectrum of Jewish belief and practice. [33]
In 2002, Jewish households represented 3.8% of households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. [1] As of 2017, there were an estimated 50,000 Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area. [2] In 2012, Pittsburgh's Jewish community celebrated its 100th year of federated giving through the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. [3]
On October 27, 2018, a man burst into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and shot people with an AR-15-style rifle. Eleven people were killed and six others, including four responding police ...
The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel.He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary ...
A man was charged with felony aggravated assault after an alleged glass bottle attack on two Jewish students on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, a city newspaper reported Saturday.
Asher Goodwin said he doesn’t think his school, the University of Pittsburgh, is doing enough to protect Jewish students. ... Inside the Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 ...
The Politz Yeshiva and Bais Yaakov, formerly known as Politz Hebrew Academy and the William C. Jacobs School and the Fayette School, is a historic American school that is located in the Bustleton neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]