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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)
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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...
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The 2013 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival : Faces of Media will showcase the 2012 Israeli and U.S. film, “InContact,” Saturday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Melwood Screening Room. The ...
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Members of the Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), including Pittsburgher and Temple Sinai member Lynn Magid Lazar, stood in solidarity with their Israeli sisters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last w...
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Four boxes of brisket totaling 275 pounds, 100 pounds of chicken, 675 matzo balls, 100 pounds of chicken bones, and 50 pounds each of carrots, celery and onions, sat in Hillel Jewish University Cen...
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This is a year of transition and celebration for the 2013 JFilm Festival. Transition, in that the festival is moving from its old venue at SouthSide Works Cinema to the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hi...
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I enter the coffee shop and scan the room looking for Ari. I finally spot him comfortable on a couch, heavily engaged in conversation with an older man who seems to be important to him. I cannot he...
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The Jewish Daily Forward has posted on its website the results of their project to identify America’s most inspiring rabbis. The Forward had “hoped to engage readers and hear stories about rabbis...
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Michael Sfard, a prominent Israeli human rights attorney known for representing Palestinians in cases against the Israeli government, will deliver a lecture entitled “Can the Occupier Provide Justi...
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An international day of volunteering, Good Deeds Day, came to Pittsburgh Sunday, March 10. Sponsored locally by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center, the event was modeled on the Center’s Mitzvah...
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Bill Strickland and Mark Frank have been friends for over 40 years. They’re so close, in fact, they’re practically brothers. “Mark’s dad kind of adopted me as one of his kids,” said Strickland, pre...
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When Rabbis Alex and Amy Greenbaum held a class this month at the South Hill Jewish Community Center on issues facing interfaith couples at Passover, they met two women they won’t soon forget. One ...