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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...
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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...
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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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Quest Camp brings summer experience to special needs kids
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A typical day camp, with it emphasis on swimming and sports and arts and crafts, can be a blessing for many families looking for a productive way for their children to spend their summers. But for ...
Congregations Beth Shalom and Rodef Shalom announce first fulltime director for collaborative joint Jewish education program
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Liron Lipinsky will become the first fulltime director of the Joint Jewish Education Program (JJEP) going into the 2013-2014 school year. The Joint Jewish Education Program is a collaborative ef...
Abrams named first director of Center for Women in Pittsburgh
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Becky Abrams never expected to be changing jobs again so soon, but opportunity has a way of knocking. Five months after leaving the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry to become communications affa...
Mamalashen speakers brought the language alive at the conference in Green Tree
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
There was Refoyl the songwriter; Naftali the farmer; and Yoshi the storyteller. In fact, if Tevye the milkman and Gimpel the fool had strolled through the halls of the Doubletree Hilton in Green Tr...
Metro Briefs May 2
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Diller Teen Fellows Program is looking for rising 10th and 11th grade Jewish students from Greater Pittsburgh committed to serving their community. Diller Teens participate in a 15-month pr...
Schwartz, Sherman and Snyder are winners of Diamond Awards
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Each year, the Pittsburgh Business Times presents the Diamond Award to a selection of the region's top CEOs, executive directors and equivalents at companies and nonprofit organizations in western...






Jewish education for teens to mark 60 years here
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
When she was a teenager in the 1950s, Bunny Morris did two things that “nice Jewish girls didn’t do.” “One, I was an athlete; and, two, I went to Hebrew school,” she recalled. It was less common b...
O'Connor's Corner
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor,  son of the late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor, unveils the new O’Connor’s Corner clock at a ceremony Wednesday, April 24, at the intersection of Phillips and ...
Donald Butler dies; lifelong Pittsburgher co-founded Hillel Academy
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Whether as a teacher, publisher or administrator, there were few Jews in Pittsburgh whose lives Donald Butler didn’t touch. Butler died, Monday, April 22, at home. He was 93. A lifelong Pittsburghe...
Ira Glass reveals his formula for ‘Reinventing Radio’
by Hilary Daninhirsch, For the Chronicle
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
If anyone can make someone’s job stocking vending machines an integral part of a news story about a U.S. aircraft carrier in Afghanistan during wartime, it’s Ira Glass, host and executive producer ...