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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 | 1 1 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 | 4 4 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...
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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...
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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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<i> Rabbi Ezra Ende lifts high a Torah during a recent Simchat Torah celebration with members of the Kiryat HaYovel Chavura community in Jerusalem. (Kiryat HaYovel Chavura photo)</i>
Ezra Ende returns to Pittsburgh; touts new ‘community’ in Jerusalem neighborhood
Rabbi Ezra Ende is so committed to religious pluralism in Jerusalem that he’s working to develop a new congregation to preserve it. The former associate rabbi at Temple Sinai, is revisiting Pittsbu...
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<i>Michael Levin, for whom the Lone Soldier Center is named, was killed in the Lebanon War of 2006.</i>
Israeli lone soldiers need help
You can find lone soldiers everywhere in Israeli society, Idan Ianovici said, which indicates just how great is the challenge he faces. “A lone soldier is a soldier who can’t live in their parent’...
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Funeral held Sunday
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
A 14-year-old female camper died following a weather-related accident at the Emma Kaufmann Camp, in Morgantown, W.Va. the The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh has announced Thursday. ...
Brüno wants to get into the hearts, minds and pants of audience
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
What does “Brüno” have to say about the state of the Middle East? Almost nothing. Almost, but not entirely. Brüno, in his search for fame across America, pokes fun at various high profile, celebrit...
Burton Hirsch demolition stalled by water issue
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Demolition of the fire-ravaged Burton Hirsch Funeral Home on Murray Avenue is finally underway, but has met yet another snag that will delay the ultimate razing of the building. The contractor hire...
Jews, Catholics, business leaders join forces to back EITC
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
A statewide coalition of Jewish, Catholic and business leaders is working the phones and Internet to drum up support for a tax credit that provides educational opportunities for thousands of Jewish...
Beth Shalom offering free tuition, membership
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Congregation Beth Shalom is offering one year of free religious school to all new students enrolling this coming year. And if the family is new to Beth Shalom, the Conservation congregation will of...
Iran bill passes House committee
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A state House committee last week passed a bill that would divest state funds of companies with ties to Iran or Sudan, but added new language guiding how the state should reimburse any losses to th...
Shaken faith linked with depression in breast cancer patients
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Women with breast cancer who feel either angry or abandoned by God are more depressed and exhibit worse overall mental health than those who maintain a more positive religious or spiritual outlook,...
Thousands of volumes available at B’nai Emunoh Book Sale
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Rare Torah commentaries? Check. The Complete Works of Shakespeare? Check. Prayer books in Hebrew and Russian? Check. Dr. Seuss? Check. These are just a sampling of the gems to be found in the sea o...
Artist captures memories of Polish village before the Shoa
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
In “Everything is Illuminated,” Jonathan Safran Foer says Jews have a sixth sense: memory. “The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins,” Foer writes. “It is only by tracing the pinprick b...
Holy pachalafaka! Yiddishe Cup has a new klezmer CD
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Have you ever imagined a klezmer band that includes Mel Brooks, Don Ho, Soupy Sales and Bobby McFerrin? No, of course you haven’t. But it gives you an idea what to expect from the latest CD by Cle...