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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 | 1 1 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 | 4 4 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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<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...
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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<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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Funds established in Jack Sittsamer’s name to continue his work on Shoa
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, including witnessing the murder of his father, Jack Sittsamer kept silent about his experiences for over 30 years. But he finally opened up and, before...
Beth Israel Center celebrates 50 years
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Even though Beth Israel Center marked its 50th anniversary in February, the celebrations won’t start for a couple more weeks. “It’s a huge milestone because we are a small congregation,” said Caro...
Documentary ties together Holocaust survival, interfaith marriage
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Through family connections, L. Mark DeAngelis first heard the story of Leah Welbel. She was on the first women’s train to Auschwitz and survived there for 33 months. She watched as her entire famil...
Was Durban II a success or failure?
by Michael J. Jordan
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
GENEVA — The question of whether last week’s Durban Review Conference was a success or a failure is in the eye of the beholder. Marked by boycotts, walkouts, an attack on Israel by Iran’s president...
Saving Shanghai’s Jewish past, headstone by headstone to speak out
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
SHANGHAI, China — In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Western philanthropists and volunteers are restoring dozens of historic Jewish cemeteries. But in Shanghai, there are none to res...
Economic crisis prompting Israeli expats to return home
by Dina Kraft
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — When Oded Salomy and his family first left Israel for the United States, they planned to move back after a few years of career building. But life was good, and it quickly became easy to ...
Linking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — As Israel’s new government reviews its foreign policy options, Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under increasing pressure from Israel’s main ally and biggest trading partner to stay on cou...
Poale Zedeck hires new rabbi
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Poale Zedeck’s long search for Rabbi Yisroel Miller’s replacement has ended. After six years at The Young Israel of Greater Buffalo, Rabbi Moshe Taub will take over at Poale Zedeck before the High ...
JHF, Israeli think tank to partner on health care delivery study
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
A Pittsburgh Jewish organization and an Israeli think tank will collaborate on a study that could lead to new ways to integrate delivery of health care services in the United States. A mission of l...
Program helps refugees get accustomed to Pittsburgh
by Dev Meyers
Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
At the turn of the 20th century, Litvaks, Galitzianers, Russians and others came to western Pennsylvania, fleeing persecution, hoping to start a better life. Some things never change. Only the nam...