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<i>Michael Chabon</i>
Metro Briefs May 23
Michael Chabon , the well-known Pittsburgh-raised Jewish American novelist whose books often have strong Jewish characters and sometimes Pittsburgh settings, has been named to The Jerusalem Post  ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Robert Rehak</i>
Czech diplomat touts culture as way to resolve Jewish-Arab split
When he was in Israel, Robert Rehak, then-Czech Republic cultural attaché to the Jewish state, practiced soccer diplomacy. Specifically, he organized a model Euro Cup competition for Arab and Jewis...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>This year’s delegation of disabled Israeli war veterans are pictured here at the “Point of View” statue on Crafton Heights. The sculpture depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770. The veterans were hosted by Jewish Pittsburgh families during their stay here and also visited Buffalo and Lancaster.</i>
Disabled Israeli vets experience the best Pittsburgh has to offer
For Meir Elhadad and seven other Israeli war veterans, the recently concluded trip to Pittsburgh and other American cities was a much-welcomed respite. It could even become a life-altering experien...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pittsburgh volunteers Reesa Rosenthal, Jon Halpern, and Ellen Leger joined with staff members from Pitchon Lev to prepare food baskets for disadvantaged Israeli families on the just-concluded volunteers mission. (Jewish Federation photo by Alex Huber)</i>
Federation sends volunteers group to Israel on mission
Eight Pittsburghers returned this week from a Mission to Israel coordinated by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center. The weeklong mission revolved around volunteering in Karmiel and the Misgav re...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israeli researchers ‘light-years ahead’ on studies of cellphone risks
Most people have no idea that their iPhone comes with a warning to carry the device at least 10 mm away from the body, and to use a “hands-free” option like headphones or speaker, in order to preve...
May 23, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Annual Shavuot study draws hundreds
Young children ran through the halls and old men with long, weathered beards looked for places to sit.   Some wore jeans and T-shirts and tennis shoes, others, suits and ties. It was an eclectic gr...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Meyer “Skip” Grinberg</i>
JSHOF to make its 2013 inductions at annual banquet
The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania will hold its 31st Induction Ceremony and Banquet, Sunday, May 19, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5915 Beacon St., Squirrel Hill. Cocktails and ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Jewish leaders: Sequestration will be challenging for them
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
With the sequestration deadline looming last week, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh held a forum to discuss what across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending could ultimately mean to ...
Rabbi Ari Goldberg brings Jewish study where the teens are
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
It was a typical Wednesday night at the upscale Galleria mall of Mt. Lebanon. A handful of moviegoers were filing into the Carmike Cinemas. A couple people were typing away at laptops on tables out...
Metro Briefs March 7
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish Family & Children’s Service will host a conference for those with special needs and their family members, Wednesday, March 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Congregation. The conference...
IRS widens probe of foreign bank accounts to include Israel
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The federal government is widening its probe and prosecution of Americans with bank accounts in Israel who fail to report those accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Washington-b...
Egyptian ambassador: Peace treaty in Egypt’s ‘best interests’
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite ongoing demonstrations and political strife, new Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Mohamed M. Tawfik insists that Egypt is stable, both economically and diplomatically. Speaking Frid...
Aaron Weil leaving Hillel JUC; will head up UCF Hillel
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Aaron Weil, executive director and CEO of the Hillel Jewish University Center, will leave that position this summer to head up a fast-growing Hillel at the second largest university in the nation. ...
Pittsburgh comedian leaves them in stitches at The Moth
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 04, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
No joke: Alan Olifson moved from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh about two years ago so he would have more opportunities to perform comedy. As it turned out, he was right. Olifson, who hosts The Moth’s m...
Holocaust Center announces winners of arts and writing contest
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, in collaboration with JFilm The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum and the Partnership2Gether, a program of the Jewish Federation of G...
Media can affect people’s spirituality — for better or worse
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Let’s face it: it’s difficult to disconnect. Americans are incessantly lured by the call of the media. It beckons us through televisions, computers, tablets, phones, music and movies. It manipulate...
Israelis, Palestinians can learn lessons from Africa
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The outgoing U.S. special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan sees “lessons” Israeli and Palestinian leaders can learn from conflicts in Africa, particularly as they relate to peace talks. Ambassador Pr...