Timeline Events List
1840
First Jewish families begin to settle in Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1840
Pittsburgh Population: 21,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 20
1843
B'nai B'rith, the first American Jewish fraternal organization, is started in New York City to help new immigrants and those in need.
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World Events
1843
Twelve Jewish immigrants found B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), the first non-religious Jewish organization in the United States.
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World Events
1845
Pittsburgh's Great Fire devastates the city. The thousands who are left homeless by the destruction rely on an outpouring of local and national charity.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1846
Pittsburgh dispatches its first telegraphic message.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1847
Sisters of Mercy open their first hospital in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1847
Bes Almon Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1847
Sisters of Mercy establish the first permanent hospital in Western Pennsylvania, today known as UPMC Mercy.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1848
Revolutions and political unrest sweep across Germany and throughout Europe, disrupting Jewish life. Many Jews immigrate to the United States in search of stability, economic opportunity, and religious freedom.
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World Events
1848
Lutheran minister, William Alfred Passavant, opens the country’s first Protestant hospital on Pittsburgh’s North Side. First known as the Pittsburgh Infirmary, the name was later changed to Passavant Hospital and is now known as UPMC Passavant.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1848
Several of Pittsburgh’s earliest Jewish settlers organized the city’s first Jewish congregation known as Shaare Shemayim (Gate of Heaven). The small group held religious services in a rented room on Penn Avenue and Sixth Street in downtown Pittsburgh. Another small congregation was established in 1852 after some members split from Shaare Shemayim. The two groups later reconciled and merged to form the Rodef Shalom Congregation in 1856.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1849
California Gold Rush attracts Jewish settlers to the West Coast, where small Jewish communities begin to take hold.
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World Events
1850
Thirty Jewish families have settled in Pittsburgh and nearby Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh's North Side.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1852
Pittsburgh Board of Health is created.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1853
Hebrew Burial Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1853
Western Pennsylvania Hospital, now West Penn Hospital, opens as a non-sectarian institution.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1854
Cholera epidemic in Pittsburgh claims the lives of over 400 people.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1855
Pittsburgh's first public high school, Central High School, opens.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1856
Rodef Shalom
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1856
First national convention of the Republican Party meets in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1857
U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scot vs. Sanford case, declaring that blacks, whether enslaved or free, could not become U.S. citizens. Outrage over this decision fuels Republican opposition to slavery, leading to Abraham Lincoln’s presidential election and seccession of southern states from the Union.
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World Events
1859
An oil rush begins in western Pennsylvania after Colonel Edwin Drake successfully drills for oil in nearby Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1860
Pittsburgh Population: 49,221
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 750
1861
Civil War begins when Confederate forces attack U.S. troops stationed at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
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World Events
1862
Pittsburgh's Home for the Friendless is chartered.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1862
B'nai B'rith Jericho Lodge
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1862
U.S. Army appoints its first Jewish chaplain.
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World Events
1863
An unsuccessful revolt against the Russian Empire causes Polish and Lithuanian Jews to immigrate to the United States in greater numbers.
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World Events
1864
Hebrew Benevolent Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1864
Tree of Life Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1865
Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1865
President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater in Washington, DC.
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World Events
1866
Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, now UPMC Shadyside, opens on Second Avenue near Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh’s downtown.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1869
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1869
Suez Canal opens as a direct waterway passage between Europe and Asia, eliminating navigation around Africa.
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World Events
1870
Judge Thomas Mellon retires from the bench and opens T. Mellon and Sons, a small bank on Smithfield Street.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1870
Pittsburgh Population: 86,076
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 1,000
1871
Kaufmann's Department Store
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1873
Panic of 1873 begins a long economic depression in the United States.
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World Events
1874
Cremeiux Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1874
First Young Men's Hebrew Association is formed in New York City by Simeon N. Leo as a social and charitable organization for young Jewish men.
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World Events
1875
Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel mill opens as the largest Bessemer steel mill in the world, attracting thousands of immigrants to the mill towns surrounding Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1875
Isaac Mayer Wise founds Hebrew Union College, the country's first Reform Jewish rabbinical seminary.
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World Events
1877
Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor is formed to help the poor and needy of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1880
A great wave of Jewish immigration begins, eventually bringing over two million Jews from the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe to the United States.
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World Events
1880
United Hebrew Relief Association
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1880
Shaare Torah Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1880
Pittsburgh Population: 156,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 2,000
1881
Alexander II of Russia is assassinated, triggering anti-Semitic pogroms.
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World Events
1881
Poale Zedeck Synagogue
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1882
H.C. Frick Coke Company is established.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1882
Russian School
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1883
House of Shelter
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1883
Beth Jacob
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1883
American Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus, pens her sonnet, The New Colossus, with its famous passage, "...give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." as a fundraiser for the construction of the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
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World Events
1884
Electric lights are first used commercially in a restaurant on Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1885
Pittsburgh Platform
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1885
Talmud Torah
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1886
George Westinghouse establishes the Westinghouse Electric Company.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1886
Statue of Liberty is completed.
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World Events
1887
First United Way campaign, a centralized fundraising effort on behalf of several charities, begins in Denver, Colorado.
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World Events
1887
Hebrew Free Loan Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1888
Pittsburgh Newsboys' Home is founded by Thomas P. Druitt as a school for orphan boys.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1888
Beth Abraham Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1889
Johnstown Flood claims the lives of 2000 people. Charities and individuals in Pittsburgh donate money to help the victims.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1889
In Chicago, Jane Addams opens Hull House, the country's largest settlement house, which serves as a model for similar institutions in other cities.
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World Events
1890
Andrew Carnegie opens his first free library in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh's North Side.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1890
Tiphereth Israel Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1890
Pittsburgh Population: 238,617
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 5,000
1891
Gusky Home and Orphanage
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1892
Violence erupts and sixteen workers are killed when Henry C. Frick orders Pinkerton guards to control striking steelworkers at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1892
Workmen's Circle is organized in New York City to promote socialism among Jewish laborers.
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World Events
1893
World's Columbian Exposition
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World Events
1893
Kingsley Association, led by Reverend Dr. George Hodges, establishes a settlement house called the Kingsley House, located in Pittsburgh's Strip District, to provide social and educational opportunities for working class families.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1894
Columbian Council of Jewish Women
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1895
Columbian Council's Sisterhood of Personal Service
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1895
First Federation of Jewish Philanthropies is founded in Boston.
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World Events
1895
Pittsburgh's first English-language Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Criterion, begins publication.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1895
Shaare Zedeck Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1896
Columbian Council School
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1897
Jewish Daily Forward, a socialist newspaper, is first published in New York City. Distributed nationally, the paper raises awareness about unfair labor and poor living conditions of recent immigrants.
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World Events
1897
Emma Kaufmann Clinic
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1897
Machsikei Hadas Congregation
Photos: 7
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1898
Hebrew Ladies' Hospital Aid Society
Photos: 10
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1898
Herzl Club is created by young Zionists with the help of Ralph Raphael, an older Zionist and activist, who promoted the participation of young women in the Zionist movement.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1898
Tiphereth Zion Society is created to promote Zionism throughout Pittsburgh's Jewish community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1899
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives
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World Events
1899
New Light (Oher Chodesh) Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1900
Pittsburgh Population: 321,616
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 13,000
1901
Jewish National Fund is established by Theodore Herzl during the Fifth Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland, to purchase land in Palestine for the creation of a Jewish homeland.
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World Events
1902
Goodwill Industries is founded in Boston.
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World Events
1902
Shaare Tefilah Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1903
Kishinev pogrom, murderous anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Russia, unite the American Jewish community in helping Russian and Eastern European Jews escape such brutalities and settle in the United States.
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World Events
1903
American Zionist Convention
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1904
Committee for Jewish and Non-Jewish Blind, now the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind, is created by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, to aid the visually impaired throughout the community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1904
Workmen's Circle Branch #45
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1904
Hebrew Immigrant and Sheltering Aid Society is established in Pittsburgh to help newly arriving Jewish immigrants.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1904
At the outbreak in 1904 of the Russo-Japanese War, many Jewish men left Russia to avoid being drafted into the tsar’s army.
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World Events
1905
Young Ladies' Sick and Relief Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1905
First Warsaw Benevolent Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1905
Political and civil unrest sweeps across Russia leading to limited powers of the monarchy and the Russian Constitution of 1906.
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World Events
1905
Cneseth Israel Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1905
A small Jewish congregation is organized in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood and is known as the Butler Street Congregation. The group held services at 5157 Butler Street.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1906
Jewish immigration to the United States reaches its highest level, with over 150,000 Jews emigrating to escape the escalating persecution and violence throughout Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire.
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World Events
1906
Jewish Home for the Aged
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1907
City of Pittsburgh opens its first water filtration plant, greatly reducing mortality rates caused by typhoid fever.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1907
Beth Israel Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1907
Kether Torah Congregation
Photos: 5
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1907
B'nai Zion Congregation
Photos: 4
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1907
The First Hebrew Austrian Beneficial Society, closely associated with Machsikei Hadas, a Galizianer shul, was founded.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1907
Pittsburgh Population: 553,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 25,000
1908
Montefiore Hospital
Photos: 15
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1908
Emma Farm Association
Photos: 15
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1908
Pliskover Free Loan Association
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1908
Ahavos Zedeck Congregation is founded in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1909
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is established in New York.
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World Events
1910
Pittsburgh's United Hebrew Relief Association employs a full-time paid social worker.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1910
Young Men's Hebrew Association is established by young Jews as a cultural, social, and educational organization.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1910
Catholic Charities begins in Pittsburgh as a central organization for Catholic relief work, including aid to orphans, immigrants, the homeless, and unskilled workers.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1911
A kosher kitchen is installed at Ellis Island.
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World Events
1911
Irene Kaufmann Settlement House
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1911
Young Women's Hebrew Association is formed as a social and cultural club for Pittsburgh's young Jewish women.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1911
Columbian Council focuses on children's nutrition and begins the Penny Lunch Program in public schools. In the first three months of the program, over 3000 penny lunches are served to students at Springfeld School in Pittsburgh's Strip District.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1911
B'nai Israel Congregation
Photos: 20
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1912
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1912
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh and the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, create the Palestine Welfare Organization to supply nurses and doctors to Jerusalem.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1912
Hadassah, a women's Zionist organization, is founded by Henrietta Szold.
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World Events
1912
Bikur Cholim (visiting the sick) Society is founded by Rabbi Moses Sivitz and several women volunteers to visit and comfort the sick, injured, and aged.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1912
Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association
Photos: 9
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1912
Pittsburgh Population: 554,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 35,000
1913
As discrimination against Jews and other immigrants increases in the United States, B'nai B'rith creates the Anti-Defamation League to combat anti-Semitism in America.
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World Events
1913
Flower Fund of the Pittsburgh Federation of Jewish Philanthropies is established for charitable donations in memory of loved ones.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1913
Beth Jehuda Congregation is organized in Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood at 1428 Nixon Street.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1914
Jewish Home for Babies and Children
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1914
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh creates the Community Endowment Fund.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1914
Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers is established to distribute American aid to Jews living in Palestine and war-torn Europe.
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World Events
1914
Talmud Torah Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1915
Junior Federation of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh is created.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1915
Pittsburgh Jewish War Relief Fund
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1915
Pittsburgh's steel mills are running at full capacity to fill orders for the European nations at war.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1916
Hebrew Institute
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1916
Young People's Zionist League
Photos: 5
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1916
Hadassah Pittsburgh Chapter
Photos: 3
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1916
Labor unrest throughout the region results in riots at U. S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works and a massive strike at the Westinghouse Electric Company.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1916
Adath Jeshurun Congregation
Photos: 5
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1917
United States enters World War I.
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World Events
1917
Jewish Children's Aid Society
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1917
Labor Lyceum
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1917
Many of Pittsburgh's young men are drafted into service with the 28th and 80th Divisions to fight in World War I.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1917
Beth Shalom Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1917
Ohave Zedeck Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1918
American Jewish Congress is organized by mostly Eastern European American Jews who want a collective voice at the Paris Peace Conference, where a Jewish national home in Palestine is discussed.
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World Events
1918
Lechem Aniyum Society (Bread for the Poor)
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1919
Jewish Big Brothers Club is organized in Pittsburgh by Judge Tensard deWolf to provide mentors to delinquent Jewish boys.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1919
National Society for Crippled Children, later known as Easter Seals, is established.
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World Events
1920
Enoch Rauh Club
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1920
B'nai B'rith Women's Auxiliary, Lodge #44
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1920
Pittsburgh Federation of Jewish Philanthropies helps create the non-sectarian United Housing Corporation, which supports the building of new homes for the needy.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1920
Pittsburgh Federation of Jewish Philanthropies hires its first professional director.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1920
United Palestine Appeal, a national organization, is created to aid Jews in the Jewish homeland.
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World Events
1920
19th Amendment is ratified, giving American women the right to vote.
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World Events
1920
Pittsburgh Population: 588,343
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 53,000
1921
Charles I. Aaron Club
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1921
Moetzet Hapoalot, now known as NA'AMAT, is established in Palestine to raise money to train and support early women settlers in Palestine.
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World Events
1921
Agudath Achim Congregation is founded in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1922
Bertha Floersheim Rauh
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1922
Pittsburgh Bureau for Jewish Children is created by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies to evaluate the welfare of Jewish dependent children in Pittsburgh and to find foster homes for orphaned children.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1923
Council House is opened by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, with funding from the Federation of Jewish Philathropies of Pittsburgh to establish a residence for young, working, single women who were living away from home.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1923
Hillel is created at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as a Jewish campus organization and is adopted by B'nai B'rith the following year.
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World Events
1923
Adath Israel Congregation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1923
Aves Achim Congregation, known as the "Bloomfield Congregation," is established and holds religious services at Leonard's Hall on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's Bloomfield neighborhood.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1923
Southwestern District of Pennsylvania Jewish Religious Schools
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1924
Immigration Act of 1924, widely opposed by the American Jewish community, creates severe restrictions on foreign immigration into the United States.
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World Events
1924
Mulbish Arunim
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1924
Jewish National Fund Pittsburgh Council
Photos: 7
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1924
Hebrew Religious Academy of Pittsburgh moves to a building at 81-83 Tannehill Street in Pittsburgh's Hill District after being founded at the nearby Tiphereth Israel synagogue.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1924
Pittsburgher Rebbe
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1925
Organization for Pioneer Women in Palestine, Pittsburgh Council
Photos: 10
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1925
Chofetz Chaim Congregation
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1925
Yehoash Folk School
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1926
Isaac Seder Education Center
Photos: 3
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1927
United Business Service is organized by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh to help train the unemployed for skilled labor. The organization then merges with the League for the Handicapped, a program of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, which later becomes the Vocational Rehabilitation Center and is now known as Life's Work of Western Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1927
First national United Palestine Appeal Campaign begins, and the Pittsburgh Jewish community is charged with raising $200 thousand, out of the national goal of $5 million.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1927
Torath Chaim Congregation
Photos: 5
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1927
B'nai Emunoh Congregation
Photos: 3
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1928
Service Shop, a low-priced resale store with donated merchandise, is opened by National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, to fund projects of the organization. The store later becomes the Council Thrift Shop and is now known as Thriftique.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1929
New Montefiore Hospital
Photos: 12
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1929
Stock market crashes, ushering in a decade of economic hardship known as the Great Depression.
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World Events
1929
League for the Handicapped is established by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, and later merges with the United Business Service, a program funded by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh. The organization later becomes the Vocational Rehabilitation Center, now known as Life's Work.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1930
Pittsburgh Population: 669,817
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 55,000
1931
Number of families on relief served by the Jewish Family Welfare Association doubles from the previous year due to economic hardships and unemployment caused by the Depression.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1931
Jewish Family Welfare Association doubles the number of families on relief due to the hardships of the Depression.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1932
As American Jewish communities continue to centralize their charities, the Council of Jewish Federations is formed to help guide the fundraising and planning efforts of fifteen Jewish federations, including that of Pittsburgh.
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World Events
1932
Economic hardships of the Depression lead the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh to join the city-wide Community Chest organization, now known as the United Way, to help in its fundraising efforts.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1933
First local campaign for the United Jewish Appeal begins to raise money for German Jews and Jewish refugees. The campaign raises $50,000 for the Joint Distribution Committee and the American Palestine Campaign.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1933
Jewish Home for the Aged, now known as the Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, moves to its present location on Brown's Hill Road.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1933
Jewish War Veterans Post 49
Photos: 9
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1933
Hebrew Free Loan reports making 106 loans in the first two months of the year due to high unemployment.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1933
American Jewish Congress declares a boycott on German goods to protest the Nazi persecution of Jews.
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World Events
1934
Publication of Pittsburgh's second English-language Jewish newspaper, the American Jewish Outlook, begins.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1934
Jewish labor leaders, concerned with the threat to labor rights under Nazi rule in Germany, establish the Jewish Labor Committe for the support of trade unions and workers overseas.
Photos: 0
World Events
1935
Revenue Act of 1935 permits corporations to deduct charitable donations from federal income tax.
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World Events
1936
Great St. Patrick Day's flood devastates Pittsburgh homes and businesses.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1936
United Jewish Fund
Photos: 13
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1936
Friendship Club
Photos: 4
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1937
150,000 Jews flee Nazi-controlled Germany, escaping persecution there only to face mounting anti-Semitism in the United States.
Photos: 0
World Events
1937
Jewish Social Service Bureau
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1938
Hitler's regime initiates a brutal pogrom known as Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) against Jews living in Germany and Austria.
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World Events
1939
Jewish Community Relations Council
Photos: 2
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1939
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Relief is organized to raise money and distribute funds to Jewish refugees living in Palestine and throughout Europe.
Photos: 0
World Events
1940
Pittsburgh Population: 671,659
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 55,000
1941
United States enters World War II.
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World Events
1943
More than 4000 Jewish men from Pittsburgh enlist in the U.S. military.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1943
Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh
Photos: 4
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1943
Jewish Welfare Board and Y Canteen
Photos: 2
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1943
The Irene Kaufmann Settlement merges with the existing Squirrel Hill Boys Club to establish a recreation program for youth living in Squirrel Hill.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1944
President Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board to help rescue and resettle victims of Nazi persecution.
Photos: 0
World Events
1944
American Jewish Committee Pittsburgh Chapter
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1944
Maimonides Institute
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1945
World War II ends when German and Japanese forces surrender.
Photos: 0
World Events
1946
UNICEF is established by the United Nations to address the needs of children suffering in post-war Europe and China.
Photos: 0
World Events
1946
Temple Sinai Congregation
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1946
Young Peoples Synagogue
Photos: 2
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1947
The Partition of India is signed, ending British rule and creating the two independent countries of India and Pakistan.
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World Events
1947
Hillel Academy
Photos: 4
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1948
Israel is declared a state by the Jewish People’s Council in Tel Aviv, on May 14. The United States is the first country to recognize the new state.
Photos: 0
World Events
1949
Council Lounge for Older People, established by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, opens as the city's first recreational program for senior citizens.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1949
Pittsburgh Chapter Women's American ORT
Photos: 3
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1949
Magic Carpet Rescue Mission, supported by the Pittsburgh Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, brings 700,000 Jews to Israel from surrounding countries.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1949
Caravan of Hope
Photos: 1
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1950
Jewish Family and Children's Service
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1951
A local chapter of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation is founded to strengthen the Jewish communities on college campuses throughout the region with programs in Jewish learning, social events, and volunteer opportunties.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1951
Pittsburgh Council on Jewish Education is created by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1951
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is created to negotiate restitution for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.
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World Events
1953
Dr. Jonas Salk tests his new vaccine for polio on students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Jewish Americans who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, are executed in New York.
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World Events
1953
Liliane S. Kaufmann School of Nursing
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1953
College for Jewish Studies
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1954
Bickur Cholim Convalescent and Nursing Home
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1955
United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1956
Suez Crisis, involving Israel, Egypt, France, and the United Kingdom, begins.
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World Events
1957
Council House, one of the country's first mental health disorder rehabilitation centers, which later becomes the Renaissance Center, is opened by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1957
The Irene Kaufmann Settlement leaves Pittsburgh’s Hill District after establishing ongoing Irene Kaufmann Centers in the East End and Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1959
Jewish Family and Children's Service creates the Department for the Jewish Aged.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1960
Y-IKC
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1960
First study mission from Pittsburgh to Israel is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1960
Pittsburgh Population: 604,332
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 45,000
1961
President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
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World Events
1962
Jewish Chronicle newspaper is established with funding from the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1963
Anathan House
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1963
Head Start, a federally funded public preschool program, is started locally by National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, and the Pittsburgh Board of Public Eduction.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1964
Civil Rights Act is passed by Congress.
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World Events
1964
Gusky Child Guidance Clinic, funded by the proceeds of the sale of the former Gusky Orphanage building, opens as a department of Jewish Family and Children's Service.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1965
Immigration and Nationality Act eases earlier restrictions on immigration and ends ethnic quotas of arriving immigrants.
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World Events
1965
Leadership Development Program is established by the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1966
National Organization for Women (NOW) is organized.
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World Events
1966
Riverview Apartments, a housing complex for independent seniors, opens as a joint project of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1966
Sivitz Jewish Hospice and Palliative Care is opened as part of the Jewish Agency on Aging.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1967
Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq results in Israel's control of Jerusalem's Old City and the Sinai Peninsula.
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World Events
1967
Pittsburgh Youth Council for Soviet Jewry
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1967
Talmudic College and Mesivta of Pittsburgh opens to provide college-level and high school Talmudic education.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1968
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader in the civil rights movement, is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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World Events
1968
Urban Affairs Foundation
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1968
National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, begins a thirty-two year, oral-history interview project which produced over five-hundred oral histories, now known as Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1969
School of Advanced Jewish Studies
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1971
Pittsburgh Conference on Soviet Jewry
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1972
Community Day School
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1972
Kosher Meals on Wheels
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1972
Sally Priesand, the first woman rabbi in the United States, is ordained.
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World Events
1973
Yom Kippur War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states begins.
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World Events
1973
United Jewish Federation joins with Pittsburgh-area Jewish communities in creating the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1974
Y-IKC becomes the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1975
Israeli War Wounded Project
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1975
Friends Indeed, a support service for girls leaving juvenile detention, is established by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1975
President Gerald Ford signs into law the Helsinki Final Act, which encourages trade and offers low-interest loans to countries within the Soviet Union on the condition that Jews and other targeted groups are given the freedom to leave the Soviet Union and emigrate to another country.
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World Events
1976
Pittsburgh Population: 500,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 48,000
1978
Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle East, Pittsburgh Chapter, a national youth education organization, is founded to confront rising levels of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism resulting from Middle East conflict.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1978
Western Pennsylvania Auxiliary for Exceptional People
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1978
United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh creates the Synagogue-Federation Committee.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1978
Kollel Institute
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1979
Camp David Accords are signed as a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
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World Events
1979
New Americans Resettlement Committee
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1979
Forward Housing Corporation is established with funds from the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to develop housing for the elderly.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1980
Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1980
First Waiting Room opens in Pittsburgh Family Court by National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, to provide a safe, nurturing environment for children whose parents or caregivers are involved in court proceedings.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1982
Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization is founded to fund research and raise awareness of breast cancer.
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World Events
1983
Council Care Senior Adult Day Care Center, a program of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, opens to provide support for seniors and their families.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1983
Beit Or Congregation is founded, based on Reconstructionist principles, by Rabbi Peter K. Gluck and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Judaism.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1984
Jewish Family and Children's Service assumes administration of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh's Career Development Center and begins providing vocational guidance.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1984
U.S. Steel's Homestead Works closes, reflecting the collapse in the regional steel and manufacturing industries, which contributes to high unemployment throughout Western Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1984
Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, after renovation and expansion, is renamed the Riverview Center for Jewish Seniors, offering improved medical and nursing care for its patients and residents.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1984
Pittsburgh Population: 400,000
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 47,000
1985
Soviet Union starts to crumble, and Soviet Jews begin to immigrate to the United States and Israel in great numbers.
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World Events
1985
Jewish Assistance Fund is founded to provide immediate financial assistance to Jews in need living in the region.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1986
Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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World Events
1987
Project Renewal, a campaign of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, commits $2.5 million to the development of Tirat HaCarmel, a city in the Haifa District in Israel.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1987
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh completes a new building in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood with funding from the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1988
Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Union, beginning a new era of freedom for Soviet Jews and their right to emigrate.
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World Events
1988
Bet Tikvah is organized as an alternative congregation to serve Pittsburgh's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jewish community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1989
Pittsburgh elects Sophie Masloff, the city's first woman and Jewish mayor.
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Pittsburgh General Event
1989
Jewish Residential Services
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1989
Western Pennsylvania Jewish Archives
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1989
Berlin Wall, separating the Eastern Bloc and West Germany, comes down as Soviet rule weakens and the reunification of East and West Germany begins.
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World Events
1989
Jewish Family and Children's Service establishes the Resettlement Division to aid the growing numbers of Jews arriving from the Soviet Union.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1989
Soviet Resettlement Mentor Family Program is established by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, to provide settlement support and help new immigrants with English language skills.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1990
Operation Exodus, a campaign to rescue and resettle Soviet Jews, begins.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1990
Jewish Healthcare Foundation is created after the sale of Montefiore Hospital to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with the proceeds to be used by the Foundation to fund programs in patient safety and healthcare quality for the medically underserved throughout western Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1991
Soviet Union dissolves into 15 separate countries as Soviet rule collapses throughout Russia and Eastern Europe.
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World Events
1991
Jews with AIDS, a resource and support center, is established by Jewish Family and Children's Service.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1991
Rabbi Moishe Mayir Voel opened the Northeast regional office of the Aleph Institute in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1992
Jewish Family and Children's Service begins its Domestic Violence Program with funding from the Ladies' Hospital Aid Society.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1993
Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure is held in Pittsburgh for the first time, supporting the national fundraising effort for breast cancer research by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, and is sponsored locally by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1994
Partners in Conversation, a program of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, provides volunteers to help New Americans from the Soviet Union practice their English language skills.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1994
After a decade of careful study and assessment, the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh embarks on a $45 million capital campaign known as Renaissance to fund the renovation of outdated buildings, create a network of social services, and develop new programs designed to meet the needs of children, families, and the elderly.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1995
Partnership 2000, a program of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, links Pittsburgh to the communities of Karmiel and Misgav in northern Israel.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1996
Family Hope Connection, offering adoption services and support, is established by Jewish Family and Children's Service with funding from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Ladies' Hospital Aid Society, and the Haskell Family Foundation.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1996
Welfare Reform Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, reduces federal cash assistance to the needy and unemployed and to immigrants.
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World Events
1996
Pittsburgh Naturalization Project is created by Jewish Family and Children's Service to assist in the naturalization process for immigrants who may lose federal assistance under the new Welfare Reform Act.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1996
Howard Levin Clubhouse is established in Squirrel Hill as a nonresidential program for people living with psychiatric illness, providing opportunities for learning social and vocational skills.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1998
Holocaust Survivors' Project is started by Jewish Family and Children's Service to identify and aid Holocaust survivors in the region.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1998
Suit Yourself, a project of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, begins providing Council Thrift Shop clothing to those in self-improvement and job-readiness programs.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1998
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Village is dedicated. The new campus of buildings on the site of the former Riverview Center includes the Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the Weinberg assisted living residence, and the Council Care-Irving Spolan Center, all of which are operated by the Jewish Association on Aging.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1998
Mitzvah Day begins as a program of the Young Adult Division of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh to provide volunteer opportunities for members of the Jewish community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1999
Bill and Melinda French Gates contribute $16 billion dollars to create the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation and $7 billion to the William H. Gates Foundation, making this the largest gift by living donors in history.
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World Events
1999
Rauh Jewish Archives
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1999
Resettlement Department of Jewish Family and Children's Service changes its name to Refugee and Immigration Service Center.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1999
Pick-A-Bag, a project of the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section, begins providing suitcases filled with toys and necessities for children being moved abuptly from their homes into foster care.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1999
Jewish Community Center of the South Hills opens with funding from the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
1999
Squirrel Hill Kosher SuperPantry opens with a grant from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation to provide kosher groceries to families in need.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2000
Pittsburgh Population: 334,563
Pittsburgh Jewish Population: 42,000
2001
Silent Witness Initiative, a national domestic violence awareness program, is sponsored locally by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2001
Shalom Pittsburgh, a program of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, is established to attract and connect young people to the Pittsburgh Jewish community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2001
On September 11, four U.S. airplanes are hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, killing over 3,000 people.
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World Events
2002
Israel Emergency Appeal, a campaign of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, raises money to assist victims of terrorism in Israel.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2003
Sheila's Shawls Project, a national program which distributes hand-knitted scarves and shawls to victims of domestic abuse living in crises centers, is organized locally by the National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2003
Rose Berman Hillel Jewish University Center, originally known as B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation, provides Jewish-centered activities for over 3,000 college students throughout the region.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2003
Iraq War begins when troops from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland invade Iraq to overthrow the regime of President Saddam Hussein.
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World Events
2004
New Community Chevra Kadisha (Holy Society) of Greater Pittsburgh is established by volunteers from a range of Jewish denominations to perform the mitzvah (good deed) of preparing the deceased for burial by carrying out the traditional rituals of tahara (purifying the body with water and prayer) and dressing the body in tachrihim (white shrouds) before placing the body in a simple wooden coffin.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2004
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean causes a massive tsunami, killing over 200,000 people and destroying parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.
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World Events
2005
Welcome Center for Immigrants and Internationals, a resource and support center provided by Jewish Family and Children's Service, opens to help immigrants and refugees adapt to their new lives.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2005
Hurricane Katrina devastates southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast and causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of the city of New Orleans.
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World Events
2005
United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh raises over $130,000 in relief funds for the victims of the tsunami that devastated Indonesia and nearby South Asian countries.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2006
Counseling Department of Jewish Family and Children's Service is renamed Squirrel Hill Psychological Services.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2006
Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh receives over $200,000 in donations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and to rebuild New Orleans, which was devastated by post-hurricane flooding.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2006
Friendship Circle opens to enrich the lives of Jewish children and young adults with special needs by providing social activities with youth volunteers from the community.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2007
Squirrel Hill Kosher SuperPantry changes its name to Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry to reflect its broader mission to provide food for Jewish and non-Jewish families in need. The program remains the only food pantry in the region to provide kosher food and also serves those who live outside the Squirrel Hill neighborhood who qualify for assistance and require kosher food.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2007
Or L'Simcha Congregation is organized by members of Beth Shalom and holds services at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2008
Legal Services for Immigrants and Internationals is added to the immigrant support programs provided by Jewish Family and Children's Service.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2009
Work-Able Program is established by Jewish Family and Children's Service to offer career skills training and employment services to adults suffering from mental health disorders.
Photos: 0
Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2010
Massive earthquake in Haiti kills over 300,000 people, renders nearly 1 million people homeless, and destroys the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
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World Events
2010
United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh raises nearly $95,000 in relief funds for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2011
City Council of Pittsburgh proclaims 2011 as the "Year of A. Leo Weil." A. Leo Weil (1858-1938), a Jewish lawyer, directed the Voters' Civic League and led successful campaigns to reform the city's political system, public schools, and police and fire departments.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event
2011
Massive earthquake and tsunami devastate coastal regions of Japan, killing over 15,000 people.
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World Events
2012
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Centennial
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Pittsburgh Jewish Event