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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)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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“Because there are no words,
There can be no poems.”
— from “The Shock That Went Away”
It’s a powerful line from one of Judith R. Robinson’s most resonant poems in her new anth...
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh nominating committee has named Woody Ostrow as the next chair of the board. He will succeed the current chair, Louis Plung. Pending board approval, Os...
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When Pittsburgh Allderdice senior Suzy Lee Weiss received rejection letters from four Ivy League universities, she was devastated. On the advice of her sister, who works for The Wall Street Journal...
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Between 1880 and 1950, the eight-block-stretch of Fifth Avenue from Crawford Street to Sixth Avenue was one of the country’s largest and most impressive Jewish business districts. Popularly known ...