Annual Campaign
The central fundraising effort that powered the federation system — pooled giving distributed across agencies, programs and overseas relief.
An archival tribute · ujfpittsburgh.org
A community, remembered in pages.
Between roughly 2001 and 2010, this domain hosted the public website of a central Pittsburgh Jewish communal organization — a window into a pre-social-media era of civic life, annual campaigns, film festivals and community calendars.
This site preserves a small piece of that record. Nothing here is official. It is offered with respect for the community whose work the original pages represented.
A brief chronology
One hundred and ten years of an idea.
The thread of communal organization runs long in Pittsburgh. This is the outline — not the inside story — of how a city's Jewish institutions consolidated, evolved, and eventually outgrew the domain that lived here.
Dates drawn from public histories at the Rauh Jewish Archives and the organization's own published timelines.
- 1912
The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies is established in Pittsburgh, following a planning meeting at Rodef Shalom Congregation the year prior.
- 1936
The United Jewish Fund forms separately to coordinate overseas relief efforts.
- 1955
The two organizations merge. The name on this domain enters the historical record.
- c. 2001
A public website launches at ujfpittsburgh.org — annual reports, a community calendar, a film festival, an Israel news ticker.
- c. 2010
A community-wide rebrand brings the present-day name into use; this domain quietly falls out of active service.
- Today
The original organization continues its work at jewishpgh.org. This page is only a marker of the domain that came before.
From the front page, December 2004
A flourishing community at home, in Israel and around the world, now and into the future. In the spirit of tikkun olam — the healing and repair of the world.
— paraphrased from the welcome message on the homepage, as it stood on 30 December 2004.
From the archive
Small artifacts of a public site.
These are the pieces of period design that survived the dynamic pages — sidebar banners and badges, recovered from the Internet Archive's snapshots between 2004 and 2007.
Scope of the work, then
Four pillars the site organized around.
Reconstructed from the navigation, sidebars, and section pages recovered from the 2004–2007 snapshots. A useful snapshot of what a mid-sized American Jewish federation publicly did, before the site existed mostly inside donor-management software.
Community Services
A web of member agencies in social services, healthcare, education and community development across western Pennsylvania.
Israel & Overseas
Programs supporting Israel, refugee resettlement, and partnerships with Jewish communities abroad — most visibly through the Partnership 2000 framework.
Jewish Life
A Pittsburgh Jewish–Israeli Film Festival, a community calendar, a Holocaust Center, the Jewish Chronicle newspaper — the cultural backdrop of a community.
For a fuller picture of the federation's present-day work, visit the active organization at jewishpgh.org.
A note on the present
The work continued.
The domain simply moved on.
Pittsburgh's Jewish community has carried, in the years since these pages were last edited, both ordinary good work and a grief that deserves no easy summary. This site does not attempt one. It only marks the URL.
For events, services, leadership, and ways to give in 2026, the active federation is at jewishpgh.org. For the deeper community history, the Rauh Jewish Archives holds the record.