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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 | 0 0 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 | 1 1 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>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...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 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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Chabad to stage May 29 women’s concert at CMU
The musical and artistic talents of Pittsburgh’s Jewish women will be celebrated Wednesday, May 29, at a communitywide event for women hosted by Chabad of Pittsburgh. The concert, which will be hel...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Robert Rehák</i>
Metro Briefs May 16
Robert Řehák , cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C., will speak on “The History and Legends of the Jews in Prague,” Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the Ellis Scho...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Twin sisters Betty Kane and Judy Meyers play a piano duet in their Squirrel Hill home. Despite the twins’ blindness since birth, they’ve become accomplished pianists, and they often volunteer their musical services at community events. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
Sightless sisters make a lifetime of music
They sit next to each other on a piano bench covered with a pink pillow.  Playing in tandem, their fingers effortlessly glide up and down the piano keys, not missing a single note. The old Baldwin ...
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Breast cancer forum to stress genetic testing for BRCA
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Jan 30, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Seven years ago, Bryna Siegel Finer learned that she had a family history of breast and ovarian cancer, and was tested to see if she had the BRCA2 genetic mutation — a mutation that increases the r...
Ravenstahl, Peduto, Lamb trade barbs at Squirrel Hill mayoral debate
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Jan 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The three men vying to be Pittsburgh’s next mayor don’t disagree on everything, but they don’t agree on much. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, City Councilman Bill Peduto and City Controller Michael Lamb too...
Athletes turn out for Indoor Triathlon at the JCC
Jan 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Fifty-one athletes from age 8 to over 80 years old competed in the Indoor Triathlon at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill Sunday, Jan. 20. The Western Pennsylvania J...
CMU students toured Israel on new David Project trip
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Standing with 33 other college students in the ancient synagogue of Masada while a sofer (scribe) discussed the art of writing a Torah, Danielle Schlesinger and Lindsay MacGillivray were inspired b...
Tu B’Shevat photo contest seeks submissions
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A new contest will allow students to combine creativity and technology with a focus on the theme of planting and roots. Students in grades four to eight in Jewish schools in the Pittsburgh area are...
Metro Briefs January 24
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh will present its seventh Big Night, Saturday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. at the JCC, 5738 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. “Time of Our Lives” is the theme of...
Frankel supports anti-bullying bill
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, issued the following statement (Watch the video) today on the reintroduction of House Bill 156, bipartisan anti-bullying legislation: "As someone who’s been...
Man who negotiated Shalit’s freedom to speak at first open Harris lecture
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
When Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit was released after five years of captivity by Hamas, the whole world noticed. What the world knows little of were the negotiations that led to Shalit’s freedom. T...
Onward Israel gives students work experience in Jewish state
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Last spring, when Josh Harvey was a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, he — like most of his peers — was searching for a summer internship that would provide him with solid job experience to bui...
Moishe House hits stride in ’Burgh
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Jan 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor's note: This is a corrected version of the original story) Yoni Steinberg zips through the rooms of his rambling three-story Squirrel Hill dwelling, picking up and straightening up ahead...