Six years after Squirrel Hill, what the community actually changed
A grant-funded mental-health network, a security-coordination model now copied in fourteen cities, and a question about what comes next.
The quiet Yiddish revival happening in five American universities
Enrollment in undergraduate Yiddish has tripled in a decade. The students aren't who you'd guess and they aren't studying what you'd think.
Rights: how hostage families coordinated a four-capital push for new disclosures
A working group of relatives spent eight weeks building a single ask. It landed last week. The mechanics are quietly important.
Also in this issue
All articles →Diaspora: the Persian-Jewish archive that's quietly being assembled in Los Angeles
Ninety hours of oral history. Six thousand photographs. A 2,500-year community telling itself for the first time on its own terms.
History: how Pittsburgh's Jewish community arrived
Three waves, 130 years, one neighborhood. A short history drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives — and what it tells us about what's still here.
Departments
i.
News
Reporting on community institutions, communal affairs, and current events.
ii.
Culture
Books, theatre, music, language, and the long memory of Jewish letters.
iii.
Rights
Civil rights, antisemitism, hostage advocacy, religious liberty.
iv.
Diaspora
The communities outside Israel — from Tehran to Buenos Aires, Vilnius to Los Angeles.
v.
History
The Rauh archives, the immigrant waves, and the long memory of Pittsburgh Jewry.