![]() ![]() The time capsule also contained a list of 1906 congregation members, letters, business cards, and a luach (Jewish calendar) and Aliyah cards. In addition to the pickle pin, items found inside included 1906 newspapers such as The Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Dispatch and the Jewish Criterion. 4, 2019, Point Park President Paul Hennigan joined together with Tree of Life officials and some longtime congregants, to open a time capsule inside the cornerstone at the site on Craft Avenue. 27, 2018, a gunman attacked the synagogue, killing 11 people. In 1953, the Tree of Life Congregation moved out of the Craft Avenue building to its current location at the corner of Wilkins and Shady Avenues in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Playhouse moved to its new home on Point Park’s downtown campus in 2018. ![]() The artifacts were revealed when the synagogue building, which was sold and became part of the original Pittsburgh Playhouse later acquired by Point Park University, was demolished by the University in order to sell it for future development in Oakland. 113 years ago, members of the Tree of Life Congregation placed documents, religious items and even a Heinz pickle pin in the cornerstone of its original synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood when it was built in 1906 (Hebrew year 5666).
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