facebook
twitter

needayoutubeicon donate

metro
<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 | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
<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 | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
<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 | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
<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
full story
<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
full story
60EH_Disconnect.JPG
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 | 3 3 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
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
full story
<i>Meyer “Skip” Grinberg</i>
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
full story
<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
full story
Archives
Local NCJW-led coalition lobbies for Sotomayor
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Before Senate confirmation hearings began Monday for federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a coalition of Pittsburgh organizations led by the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women ...
Funeral home’s future still uncertain six months after fire
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Six months after a major fire, the fate of the boarded up Burton L. Hirsch Funeral Home remains unknown, as does the cause of the fire itself. “We recently received the permit to allow us to clear ...
Pittsburghers have tennis success at Maccabiah 18
by The Chronicle staff
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Pittsburgh’s own Emma Leibowicz advanced to the second bronze medal round in the women’s Open division tennis tournament at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel. After winning her first match i...
UJF distributes $19.8 million; support for campaign stays strong
by The Chronicle staff
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The UJF Trustees recently approved $19.8 million in distributions, about $300,000 more in funding than last year. These funds come from the Annual Campaign, UJF Foundation, Donor-directed gifts, an...
Taub not coming to Pittsburgh
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
The incoming rabbi of Congregation Poale Zedeck is no longer coming to Pittsburgh. Rabbi Moshe Taub, chosen earlier this year to succeed Rabbi Yisroel Miller at the modern Orthodox synagogue in Squ...
Renewed Iran divestment effort faces timing hurdle
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
A new divestment effort is challenged by timing, but bolstered by strong momentum. The ongoing stalemate in the Pennsylvania General Assembly over the budget is gobbling time and energy in Harrisb...
SHHC gets federal funds to build mobile medical unit
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
The Squirrel Hill Health Center is going mobile, courtesy of the federal government. Susan Friedberg Kalson, CEO of the health center, has announced that the SHHC is receiving $310,725 in federal s...
A challenging mitzva
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
New Torah seeks to be written by whole community
Specter: Israel must decide its own fate
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
The future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank depends in part on arrangements Israel made with previous U.S. administrations, Sen. Arlen Specter said in Pittsburgh on Thursday, July 2. Speakin...
Political liability
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — If Avigdor Lieberman’s appointment as foreign minister seemed odd when it was made, recent developments cast more doubt over his capacity to function as Israel’s top diplomat. Israel’s ...