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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...
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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)</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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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 ...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Israeli scouts inspire wonder and pride
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
They hit the road in a strange country in the summer to perform 110 high-energy shows in three months —as many as three a day, in all different locations — and visit a new town, stay with a new fam...
Jewish position on health care: Treatment for everyone
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 02, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
As Josh Shapiro starts his new assignment on a team of state lawmakers advising President Obama’s health care reform initiative, the state representative from the Philadelphia area credits his Jewi...
Agentinian mom seeks help for unique day school
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Adriana Saccal has a message about integrating special needs children into mainstream classrooms: It works. She should know. The Jewish mother of three from Buenos Aires, Argentina, enrolled her th...
Chronicle takes top Rockower prize for online excellence
by The Chronicle staff
Jul 02, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Chronicle’s new Web site, thejewishchronicle.net, has won first place at the 2009 Simon Rockower Awards for most outstanding Web site. “Serving a community that extends from Western Pen...
JCC provides free kosher lunches to children all summer long
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
If you went Tuesday to the back of the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill’s Irene Kaufmann Building between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., just behind the loading dock, you would have seen a bizarre sig...
Court rules for Franken in Minnesota recount
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — With its decision in favor of comedian Al Franken, the Minnesota Supreme Court has given the U.S. Senate its first veteran of “Saturday Night Live” — and left the chamber with no Jewis...
Jewish groups split reactions to Supreme Court decision
by JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the court ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn. were unfairly denied promotions after city officials...
Jackson’s nose broke down stereotypes
by Ruth Ellen Gruber
JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
VIENNA — Amid all the noisy outpouring over Michael Jackson’s sudden death, the last place I expected to find him was in a Jewish museum. But there he was, his pale, mask-like, surgically engineere...
Mass converts pose dilemma for Latin American Jews
by Florencia Arbiser
JTA
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
CARTAGENA, Colombia — Luis Alberto Prieto Vargas appears to be a Jew. He wears a kipah, he introduces himself as Jewish and two years ago Vargas, a Christian by birth, underwent a conversion ceremo...
Jewish Pittsburgh native leaves artistic mark
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
It takes a very creative eye to look at a palm tree and decide it could use a pair of earrings. Or that a necklace falling from the shoulders of a skyscraper would be just the thing. But in artist ...