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<i>Michael Chabon</i>
Metro Briefs May 23
Michael Chabon , the well-known Pittsburgh-raised Jewish American novelist whose books often have strong Jewish characters and sometimes Pittsburgh settings, has been named to The Jerusalem Post  ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Pittsburgh volunteers Reesa Rosenthal, Jon Halpern, and Ellen Leger joined with staff members from Pitchon Lev to prepare food baskets for disadvantaged Israeli families on the just-concluded volunteers mission. (Jewish Federation photo by Alex Huber)</i>
Federation sends volunteers group to Israel on mission
Eight Pittsburghers returned this week from a Mission to Israel coordinated by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center. The weeklong mission revolved around volunteering in Karmiel and the Misgav re...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Annual Shavuot study draws hundreds
Young children ran through the halls and old men with long, weathered beards looked for places to sit.   Some wore jeans and T-shirts and tennis shoes, others, suits and ties. It was an eclectic gr...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Sarah Feiga Foner</i>
First woman Hebrew novelist Sara Foner bucked the times
Sarah Feiga Foner is not exactly a household name, but the late 19th-century novelist, who lived in Pittsburgh for the last 28 years of her life, holds an important distinction: she was the first w...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Anne Martindale Williams</i>
Kollel to showcase musicians at May 20 benefit concert
Kollel Jewish Learning Center will feature two well-known local musicians in a benefit concert it is hosting, the “Night of Music,” Monday, May 20, 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center in Squi...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Susie Fishbein autographs a copy of her latest book, “Kosher By Design Cooking Coach,” at a May 1 demonstration in Fox Chapel.<br> Below, Cindy Gerber, who hosted the Susie Fishbein event, with Lieba Rudolph, center, and Chabad Fox Chapel Co-Director Shternie Rosenfeld, on right. (Photos by Yuan Tsur Photography)</i>
Susie Fishbein makes cooking demo in Fox Chapel home
Since too many cooks may very well spoil the broth, the 60 women who gathered at Cindy Gerber’s palatial Fox Chapel home on May 1 were content to watch Susie Fishbein do all the cooking herself. An...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Art education without ethics does students a disservice
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh was not pleased. During the Antigravity Parade at Carnegie Mellon University this year, a student participated wearing a pontifical shaped crown and barely anything...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
Futurist believes Israel’s leaders could overstep their limits
NEW YORK — David Passig, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, is the first to admit that he is neither a prophet nor a seer. Still, his job is to predict the future, based on the new academic discip...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Lee Chottiner</i>
Bayer should address Shoa in sesquicentennial year
It’s nearly 70 years since the end of World War II and much has changed in Germany, but one of the most notable changes there has been resurrection of its Jewish community. Today, more than 200,000...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
IDF intelligence: Assad used lethal sarin gas against Syrian rebels
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Dov Lipman</i>
American-born MK on U.S. speaking tour
Dov Lipman is coming to the United States this week for the first time without a U.S. passport. As a precondition for joining the Israeli government as a Member of Knesset, Lipman, 41, had to make ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> A Qassam rocket in Sderot. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</i>
Israel attacked by Gaza rockets during Obama visit
(JNS.org ) Four Gaza rockets were fired at Israel on Thursday, with two of them landing in the often rocket-battered city of Sderot, during the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit t...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Walking for friendship
Jeffery Steiner, 20, gives his friend Chaim Rudolph, 5, a piggyback ride under a balloon arch following Sunday’s Walk4 Friendship, sponsored by Friendship Circle. The trek constituted a loop around Schenley Oval in Schenley Park, followed by refreshments. More than 200 people took part in the walk. (Chronicle photo by Ohad Cadji)
Jeffery Steiner, 20, gives his friend Chaim Rudolph, 5, a piggyback ride under a balloon arch following Sunday’s Walk4 Friendship, sponsored by Friendship Circle. The trek constituted a loop around Schenley Oval in Schenley Park, followed by refreshments. More than 200 people took part in the walk. (Chronicle photo by Ohad Cadji)
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<i>Adam Reinherz</i>
Shop class project teaches Hillel boys profound life lessons
In Judah, Jews buried their own. In Persia, Jews buried their own. Across Europe, throughout Italy, Spain and Poland, Jews buried their own. But in America, Jews essentially stopped.  Funeral homes...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Robert Rehak</i>
Czech diplomat touts culture as way to resolve Jewish-Arab split
When he was in Israel, Robert Rehak, then-Czech Republic cultural attaché to the Jewish state, practiced soccer diplomacy. Specifically, he organized a model Euro Cup competition for Arab and Jewis...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Film Director Emily Harrold thanks the Robinson family May 8 at the 2013 Robinson International Short Film Competition. Harrold’s film “Reporting on the Times: The New York Times and the Holocaust” was given the Kesef Award. Five short films were shown at the gala, and three awards were given in honor of the memory of Sanford N. Robinson Sr. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
‘Castaways’ takes top honor at Robinson Short Film Competition
The passengers knew they were going to die. Rounded up by Nazis, they were on trains headed to the Treblinka death camp in Poland.  So they took a desperate measure. They threw their young children...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Recipents of the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) program are pictured here with their award. They are, from left to right, Charlene Tissenbaum, chair of the P2G Youth Kesher (Connection) Committee; Jan Levinson, P2G co-chair; Andrea Arbel, director of the Partnership Unit, Jewish Agency for Israel; Cindy Goodman Leib, P2G co-chair; Sue Linzer, Jewish Federation associate director of planning and director of overseas operations; and Debbie Swartz, Pittsburgh P2G coordinator. (Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh photo)</i>
Jewish Pittsburgh, partner communities, garner JAFI award for P2G project
The Pittsburgh Jewish community received First Place recognition in the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) p...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Steve Brodner Suggests New Campaign Strategy for Anthony Weiner: Go Superfreak!
Continue reading: Rick JamesContinue reading "Steve Brodner Suggests New Campaign Strategy for A...
Henry Kissinger—Conflicted Jew, Influential Sec. of State—Turns 90
Henry Kissinger, who turns 90 this Monday, May 27, is one of the most influential Jews in America...
French Jewry's Growing Challenges Explained
In March, an alleged anti-Semitic attack by a group of young Arabs against an Israeli movie direc...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Long, Forgotten History of Working Hard
The intense and often corrosive debates on ultra-Orthodox military service in the state of Israel...
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Secretary of State John Kerry says that’s it’s now or never for Israelis and Palestinians to reac...

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