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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 | 2 2 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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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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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’...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Chronicle photos by Lindsay Dill</i>
J-Site graduation day
Agency for Jewish Learning alumna Bunny Reingold Morris offers advice at the Chatham University Chapel May 5 for AJL's 2013 commencement and 60th Anniversary ceremony. About 100 graduates, friends,...
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>David Ehrenwerth</i>
Ehrenwerth offers inside look at government service
David Ehrenwerth attended a few meetings in the White House last December when he noticed a chanukia sitting on a wooden table where Cabinet members enter the building for gatherings. Of course, no...
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Norma Sobel’s giving, fundraising influenced a younger generation
Norma Kirkell Sobel, a Jewish leader locally and nationally in many capacities, whose active participation touched many organizations, died Tuesday, April 30. She was 73. “There was a gazillion org...
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<i>A quilt panel from Leslie Golomb and Louise SIlk’s project, “Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me,” is part of the “Stitch in Jewish Time” exhibit.</i>
Metro Briefs May 9
“A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles,” the latest exhibit at the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, opens Tuesday, May 14, and runs through Jul...
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Archives
From generation to generation
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
This is a story about a circle becoming unbroken. Last week, Gertie Brog finally got a pin from the National Honor Society. She earned it three-quarters of a century ago, in 1933, as a student in t...
Diaspora Museum changing name
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv will get a new infusion of cash and become the Museum of the Jewish People. A $25 million project to renew the museum, now called Beth Hatefusoth...
Israeli millionaires drop by 28 percent
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The number of Israeli millionaires has fallen by 28 percent, nearly twice the global total. According to the Merrill Lynch World Wealth report released June 25, Israel now has 5...
Jewish school found guilty of discrimination
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
LONDON (JTA) -- A Jewish school in North London was found guilty of race discrimination. The admissions policy of the Jewish Free School may have to change following the June 25 ruling by a London...
Permit for 50 settlement homes
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Permits have been granted to build 50 homes in a West Bank settlement to resettle families being evicted from an illegal outpost. The Defense Ministry in May approved in princip...
Madoff's victims: Moving on
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- For Belle Faber, the sentencing of Bernard Madoff felt surreal. Television coverage of Monday's event was being projected on a screen in the conference room of the American Jewish Cong...
AgeWell Pittsburgh featured on WQED
by Staff and Releases
Jun 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Earlier this month, WQED's “OnQ” news magazine program aired a weeklong, special series called "Age Well, Age Wise," which focused on area resources that help Pittsburgh seniors live longer, health...
Agriprocessors set to be sold
by JTA
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- The troubled Iowa meatpacker Agriprocessors is set to be sold. A court-appointed trustee for the company, which filed for bankruptcy months after a massive immigration raid last year, ...
Shalit transfer to Egypt coming soon
by JTA
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will soon be transferred to Egypt as part of a larger prisoner swap, according to European diplomatic sources. The sources were quoted in the Isr...
YouTube removes Blumenthal video from its Web site
by JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — YouTube has removed footage of young American Jews making racist remarks about President Obama. Attempts to access the video Friday were met with a message from the video-sharing Web sit...