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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 | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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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>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>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 | 3 3 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...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<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
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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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Israelis, Palestinians can learn lessons from Africa
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The outgoing U.S. special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan sees “lessons” Israeli and Palestinian leaders can learn from conflicts in Africa, particularly as they relate to peace talks. Ambassador Pr...
Grinberg named to JCPA national board; plenum to address pressing social issues
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Skip Grinberg, chair of the Community Relation Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, will join the national board of directors of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs. He will be ...





40 KMR members attend BBYO convention in D.C.
by Staff and releases
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
For the 40 Pittsburgh teens who attended BBYO’s annual International Convention in Washington, D.C., over the President’s Day weekend, the highlight of the trip may have been the welcome they and t...
Pittsburgh Jews volunteer to mentor Jewish ACJ inmates
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
At age 79, Patti Anouchi has a new career: mentor to soon-to-be released Jewish inmates. Actually, Anouchi is a volunteer, but she’s taking this work as seriously as she did her former career as co...
Metro Briefs February 28
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Congregation Beth Shalom will honor Lea Davidson and Elinor Zaremberg at their 2012-2013 Torah Fund Brunch Sunday, March 3.  Davidson and Zaremberg joined Congregation Beth Shalom as young women ...
Idea for Museum of Jewish Ideas born here
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Don’t expect to see antique seder plates or recovered Torah scrolls at the Museum of Jewish Ideas (MoJI). Don’t expect to view burnished jugs from the time of David, or to tour exhibits devoted to ...
AJL moving; will relocate to Rodef Shalom by July
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
After eight and a half years in the same location, the Agency for Jewish Learning is poised to move to new digs at Rodef Shalom Congregation. The AJL board of directors voted Feb. 19 to approve a m...
‘The Gatekeepers,’ '5 Broken Cameras’ fail to win Academy Award
by Tablet Editors
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
5 Broken Cameras and The Gatekeepers , stark indictments of the Israeli occupation and its effects on Palestinian life, failed to garner the coveted Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards Sunday....






Purim Roundup
Feb 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Adat Shalom: Thursday, Feb. 21,  bake Hamentashen with Sisterhood, 9 a.m. to noon at Adat Shalom; Saturday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m., Megillah reading, costume parade and treats for adults and kids, famil...
Metro Briefs February 21
Feb 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay will conclude the two-year “Conversations for a Jewish Future” lecture series, Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m., in the Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill, when she speaks o...