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 WHAT'S NEW REGIONALLY Check the local Community Calendar at Johnstownpa.comBeth Sholom Sisterhood Rummage Sale Returns!Sunday, March 9th and Monday March 10th 9:00 AM to 4:00 PMOpen to the PublicTHURSDAY NIGHTS AT THE MOVIESTHE 9th ANNUAL ALTOONA INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVALFEBRUARY 21st, 28th, MARCH 6th, AND 13th, 2008 All films will be shown at the PENN STATE ALTOONA's DEVORRIS DOWNTOWN CENTER located at the corner of 15th St. and 12th Avenue. All films begin at 7:30 PM. Advance ticket sales encouraged. Optional dinners ($10.00/dinner) available (reservations required for the dinners) at The Heritage Discovery Center (next to the theater). Dinners include: wine, appetizers, delicious dinner and dessert prepared by Catered Affairs by Paula Binus. Box office information (814) 515-1182.
February 21st RAPE OF EUROPA (2006, 117 mins, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian with subtitles, made in the United States) February 28th IRA AND ABBY (2006, 105 mins., English, made in the United States) March 6th BLACK BOOK (2006, 145 mins., Dutch, German, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles, made in The Netherlands,/Germany/United Kingdom/Belgium) March 13th STEEL TOES (2004, 90 mins.,English, made in Canada). University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Theatre February 22, 23, and 24, 2008
Performances are Friday and Saturday, February 22 and 23, at 8:00p.m. and Sunday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m. Maybe you’ve already been there, but come again to a South Sea island during World War II, where a self-declared “little hick,” Ensign Nellie Forbush, falls in love with a dashing French planter, Emile de Becque. Try to hold the theatre down when the full pit orchestra plays “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Wonderful Guy” and “Bali Ha'i” in this our valentine to Johnstown. The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Theatre Department presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
Tickets are $15 regular and $12 discount.
Remember those long, cold winters at UPJ? Well, we’re putting winter on
hold for one night! Join your fellow alumni and transport yourself to the
South Pacific, where warm ocean breezes carry the sounds of island music
and tropical aromas fill the air.
When For more information about the Alumni Dinner visit: http://www.upj.pitt.edu/13428.pdf |
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The Beth Sholom Weaving Room Project has been covered in several recent publications:
"Sandie Hinderliter: 2004 HGA/Interweave Press Teach-It-Forward Grant Recipient," by Sandra Bowles in Shuttle, Spindle, & Dyepot, Vol XXXVI No. 3, Issue 143, Summer 2005. [HGA—Handweaver's Guild of America, Inc.].
"Weaving a Jewish Future in Johnstown" in Hayom: Covering Pennsylvania Jewish Life Today, Vol, No. 2, p. 11. [King Publishing, LLC, State College, PA] (reprinted from The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh).
The 2004 Beth Sholom weavers include: Amanda Yanella, Seymour Finkelstein, Leah Glass, Judith Finkelstein, and Rema Goldblatt.
This page lasted updated on February 16, 2008.
