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<i>This year’s delegation of disabled Israeli war veterans are pictured here at the “Point of View” statue on Crafton Heights. The sculpture depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770. The veterans were hosted by Jewish Pittsburgh families during their stay here and also visited Buffalo and Lancaster.</i>
Disabled Israeli vets experience the best Pittsburgh has to offer
For Meir Elhadad and seven other Israeli war veterans, the recently concluded trip to Pittsburgh and other American cities was a much-welcomed respite. It could even become a life-altering experien...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Israeli researchers ‘light-years ahead’ on studies of cellphone risks
Most people have no idea that their iPhone comes with a warning to carry the device at least 10 mm away from the body, and to use a “hands-free” option like headphones or speaker, in order to preve...
May 23, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 7 7 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...
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JSHOF to make its 2013 inductions at annual banquet
The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania will hold its 31st Induction Ceremony and Banquet, Sunday, May 19, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5915 Beacon St., Squirrel Hill. Cocktails and ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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>Lisa Lurie, one of the Cancer Be Glammed co-founders, on left, and Allderdice teacher Julie Farber, who with her top jewelry students in partnership with Pittsburgh-based website Cancer Be Glammed, paired the students with women coping with cancer in order to craft pieces of jewelry for them. Women were given their personalized jewelry May 4 at a gathering at the Summerset at Frick Park Community Center. (Photo courtesy of Paul Firemen)</i>
Cancer Be Glammed thanks to Allderdice jewelry class
An estimated 805,600 women will be diagnosed with some sort of cancer this year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. And 79,560 of them, almost 10 percent, will be in Pen...
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JF&CS holds annual meeting, examines impact of five-year plan
“The Imprint and Impact of Collaboration” was the theme at Jewish Family & Children’s Service’s annual meeting, held this past Monday evening at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Following a dessert recep...
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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...
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Red, White and (oy!) Blue
Jewish Music Festival returns with American theme
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Ready to kick off its sixth year, the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival will run from June 2 to June 15. Following on last year’s theme of Israel at 60, this year’s theme is The Jews in America. “Af...
At Hillel Academy, doctor gets big hand for transplanting two of them
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
A physician is taking the medical art of transplant surgery to new heights, and more specifically, hands. Dr. Gerald Brandacher, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center transplant surgeon wh...
Community Day students replace flags at historic Jewish cemetery
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
For the third straight year, the American flags at the Adath Jeshurun cemetery in Allison Park were changed by Pittsburgh school children. This year, sixth-graders from Community Day School went ou...
Night of learning could become Shavuot tradition
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
In case you think studying on Shavuot is boring, check out these classes: • “Shavuot and the Grateful Dead;” • “From Sinai to Cyberspace;” • “Are You Ready for some Torah?” • “Moses at Sinai: You W...
Rudolph to be next chairman of the UJF
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 28, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
William C. “Billy” Rudolph is making some history. His recent election to be the next chairman of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh makes him the first Lubavitch Jew to hold that position,...
Centennial of historic speech at Rodef Shalom is reached
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
One hundred years ago this week, U.S. presidential history was made from the bima of a Pittsburgh synagogue. It was on May 29, 1909 — a Shabbat — that President William Howard Taft, rose from his ...
Rodef Shalom garden showcases Biblical beauty plants
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Let’s face it. A modern gal needs her lipstick, eyebrow pencil, nail polish and skin lotions to look and feel her best. So it may come as no surprise that this is nothing new. While the tubes a...
Tribute to Rabbi Stephen E. and Lisa Steindel
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Congregation Beth Shalom will pay tribute to Rabbi Stephen E. and Lisa Steindel for 23 years of service to the congregation during a weekend of activities on June 5-7. A highlight of the weekend wi...
Bibi gets his first date thrill, but what about the relationship?
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — With a presidential pledge to hang tough on Iran under his belt, Benjamin Netanyahu could be forgiven for thinking Barack Obama was an easy first date. Wait until he hears about what h...
He’s a handball wizard — and he’s Jewish, too
by Jonathan Mayo
May 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Love of a sport is something that can be like an heirloom, passed down from parent to child. In the parent’s perfect dream, the child not only grows to love the sport, but maybe he even excels at i...