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<i> 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...
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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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<i> 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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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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<i> 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 ...
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<i> 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...
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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’...
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‘The Food Matters’: A look at sane eating with Mark Bittman
by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Sep 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Those of us who love reading about food and recipes should find Mark Bittman’s new book, “The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living,” (Simon & Schuster) a cookbook wort...
Temple Emanuel hosts dating abuse education workshop
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the most important talks Bari Benjamin has had with her teenage daughter was about pop stars. But it wasn’t a discussion about music or fashion. In February of 2009, R&B singer Chris Brown w...
Enter a hilarious world of ‘Jewtopia’
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 23, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Being Jewish can be difficult. It can be rewarding, or even frustrating. But maybe more than anything, it can be funny. Just ask Bryan Fogel. For the past seven years, the 36-year-old Los Angeles ...
Screening comes with ethical issues experts say
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
(Second in a four-part series on genetic screening for Jews) Physically speaking, it is pretty easy to get screened to see if one might be a carrier for any of 18 identified genetic Ashkenazi di...
Squirrel Hill food pantry to offer nonkosher food at new location
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Soon, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry will serve the 15217 Zip code in every way. The Jewish Family & Children’s Service has announced that the pantry will begin offering nonkosher, as well...
‘Top Chef’ judge Gail Simmons serving up ‘Just Desserts’
by Devra Ferst
Forward
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Every reality competition with judges has a “mean one": Simon Cowell’s scathing remarks made plenty of “American Idol” contestants cry. For the first couple of seasons of “Top Chef,” t...
iPhone App explores, reveals Israeli settlements
by Jonah Lowenfeld
Jewish Journal
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- Want to know exactly where Ariel, the often discussed city-sized settlement in the West Bank, is located? How about when it was established or how many Israelis live there? There’s ...
Martin Peretz dropped as Harvard event speaker
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Martin Peretz has been dropped as a speaker from a Harvard University event. Peretz, the editor in chief of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, had been scheduled to speak at the 50th...
Documentary of cantorial journey to Poland plays in Pittsburgh.
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The word Poland has stigma among today’s Jews. It’s the place of Auschwitz, the land of long dead shtetls, destruction … destruction. And yet, 100 cantors recently went there to challenge that pe...
Israel ready to negotiate with Syria, Peres tells U.N.
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away," Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. In his address Monday in New York to the international body...