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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 | 2 2 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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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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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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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...
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JFilm releases its 2013 Festival lineup
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Single Files: Ari is a giver, a people person and lots of fun at coffee shops
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation and Forbes Hospice named a leader in the 21st century by The Forward
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Controversial Israeli human rights attorney to speak at Pitt
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 20, 2013 | 6 6 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...




More than 600 volunteers participate locally on Good Deeds Day
by Staff and releases
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Frank: I learned about bridge building at Manchester Bidwell
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Interfaith couples handle Passover and Easter, rabbis, survey say
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Metro Briefs March 14
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Chabad Fox Chapel will hold its third annual Spark Gala event Sunday, March 17, at the Marriott City Center, Downtown. Glass harpist Jamey Turner will play music on his collection of water glasse...
Local Jewish mime makes symphonies kid friendly
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Want to take a 4-year-old to a symphony? No, this is not a trick question. While most parents would quake at the thought of trying to get a preschool age child to sit still through an orchestral p...
‘Sarajevo Haggadah’ focus of this year’s community literacy program
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The famed “Sarajevo Haggadah” is the subject of the historical novel “People of the Book,” chosen by the Allegheny County Library Association as the featured title for its 11th annual “One Book, On...