CWB BRINGS SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF PRIME STAGE THEATRE SHOW
CWB participants have the chance to see Prime Stage Theatre’s premiere performance of The Devil’s Arithmetic, based on the book by Jane Yolen and adapted for the stage by Barry Kornhauser. A choice of two performance dates is available to the CWB community: Sunday, May 11, 2:30 p.m., or Saturday, May 18, 8 p.m. Each […]
CWB DEBUTS FILM AT PITTSBURGH JEWISH ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL
CWB will premiere Farewell, Herr Schwarz, a must-see film, in Pittsburgh on March 30-31 as part of JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum’s Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival. Winner of the Haifa International Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award, Farewell, Herr Schwarz is a stunning look at the Holocaust’s grip on three generations. The film is […]
INTERNATIONAL TEEN SERVICE TRIP TO THE CHILDREN’S VILLAGE, KARMIEL, ISRAEL
A core CWB program is the annual International Teen Service Trip to the Children’s Village, in Karmiel, Israel. This year’s trip will take place March 16-27. Six students from The Ellis School and Sewickley Academy, as well as an educator from Sewickley Academy, will participate. The trip to the Children’s Village provides an extraordinary opportunity […]
FIRST ALL-CWB TEACHER REUNION
CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur will take part in the CWB Educator Reunion Tuesday, March 11, at Community Day School, 6424 Forward Ave., in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The free event, 5 to 6:30 p.m., will bring together all the teachers from public, private, charter, and Jewish parochial schools who have participated in CWB study seminars […]
CWB SCHOLAR AVI BEN-HUR RETURNS
CWB Director of Education Avi Ben-Hur returns in March to offer Pittsburgh and the new CWB community of Wheeling, West Virginia, a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the countries, histories, and cultures that CWB programming encompasses. Sunday, March 9, 2 to 3:30 p.m., at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Ben-Hur will speak […]
CWB CONTINUES UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMANY CLOSE UP
Last year, young Jewish professionals discovered modern Germany by traveling with Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) on the very successful inaugural program, Germany Close Up. In 2014, CWB again invites young Jewish professionals to see modern Germany and how it has been dealing with its history. This year’s trip, slated for Aug. 3-14, will be another […]
A journey of 4,528 miles begins from Wheeling to Pittsburgh to Poland…
On Sunday afternoon students, educators and community members boarded a bus in Wheeling to travel to the Jewish Federation office in Pittsburgh and meet with their Pittsburgh counterparts for the first study session in preparation for Poland 2014. The turn-out was excellent and the level of energy was contagious. Barak Naveh was the educator for […]
Classrooms Without Borders And Germany Close Up Subsidize Trip To Berlin
Press Release Jan 2014 Contact: Dr. Zipora (Tsipy) Gur at 412-915-9182/ [email protected] Classrooms Without Borders And Germany Close Up Subsidize Trip To Berlin For Twenty Jewish Young Professionals Classrooms Without Borders, in association with Germany Close Up, is subsidizing an August 3, 2014 trip for 20 young Jewish professionals to experience Berlin’s modern […]
Poland 2014: CWB-Wheeling participants meet & greet
Last night, the social hall at Temple Shalom was filled with anticipation as the 34 study participants and their families gathered to hear about the journey they will embark on in June 2014. Dr. Gur (Tsipy) offered an overview, Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner (of Temple Shalom & Poland 2014 trip participant) remarked about the Wheeling […]