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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...
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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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Snyder joins survivors of many atrocities at D.C. rally
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 3 3 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sunday, Herman Snyder addressed 600 people at an anti-genocide rally in front of the White House in Washington. On Monday, he spoke to three classes of students at Baldwin High School. And Tuesd...
Chinese delegation visits CDC, studies career counseling methods
by Dev Meyers
Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
A delegation of Chinese career counselors visited the Career Development Center of Jewish Family and Children’s Service in Squirrel Hill on Friday. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations se...
W.Va. Holocaust commission struggles for funding, survival
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WHEELING, W.Va. — As Mary Haas stood before a crowd of 50 people Sunday at a Temple Shalom Yom Hashoa program, preparing to present a documentary on the life of Israeli poet Hannah Senesh, she made...
Interfaith Yom Hashoa service slated for South Hills
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
For the last 30 years, the South Hills Interfaith Ministry has conducted an interfaith Holocaust observance service. It is one of the longest running services in the country and attracts hundreds o...
The winners!
Temple Sinai captures Synagogue League title
by By Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
For the third time in the last four years, Temple Sinai captured the High School Synagogue League Championship at the Jewish Community Center, defeating Or L’Simcha 64-51. Coached by Chronicle colu...
UJC takes step towards more layoffs, budget cuts
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Under pressure from the federations that it serves, the United Jewish Communities took a step toward implementing an 18 percent budget cut that will include significant layoffs, the sec...
Post-Katrina rebuilding fuels Jewish service movement
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW ORLEANS — In mid-March, more than 500 of the Jewish federation system’s young leaders descended upon the St. Bernard Parish in metropolitan New Orleans to help turn a school that was abandoned...
Pro-Israel activists set to do battle at Durban II
by Michael J. Jordan
JTA
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Eight years ago, at the first U.N. World Conference Against Racism, pro-Israel activists endured a week of hate-filled insults, pamphlets, posters and marches in the streets...
Honoring those who saved Jews during the Holocaust
by By Mike Zoller Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
During Yom HaShoah, we remember those lives lost during the Holocaust. However, few people will think to honor those who protected Jews when the risk was so great. Without their heroism, who knows...
Pittsburghers to rally in Harrisburg for divestment from Iran
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
On Tuesday, State Rep. Josh Shapiro, along with members of the Iran Task Force from Pittsburgh, will reintroduce a bill to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives prohibiting Pennsylvania pension...