by Kay Ahmed | Dec 5, 2019 | From Our Archives
It was a damp and windy February day in 1991 when I walked those few solemn blocks. With trepidation I swung open the heavy door and for the first time entered a beautiful but cavernous space. As I slowly made my way down the aisle, about twelve men, some quite...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 2, 2018 | Creative Insights
The poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925) had much in common with the 11 members of Tree of Life Synagogue who were murdered on October 27. He was raised by immigrant parents in a Jewish household not far from the synagogue, in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood....
