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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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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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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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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<i>Chronicle photos by Lindsay Dill</i>
J-Site graduation day
Agency for Jewish Learning alumna Bunny Reingold Morris offers advice at the Chatham University Chapel May 5 for AJL's 2013 commencement and 60th Anniversary ceremony. About 100 graduates, friends,...
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<i>David Ehrenwerth</i>
Ehrenwerth offers inside look at government service
David Ehrenwerth attended a few meetings in the White House last December when he noticed a chanukia sitting on a wooden table where Cabinet members enter the building for gatherings. Of course, no...
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Norma Sobel’s giving, fundraising influenced a younger generation
Norma Kirkell Sobel, a Jewish leader locally and nationally in many capacities, whose active participation touched many organizations, died Tuesday, April 30. She was 73. “There was a gazillion org...
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<i>A quilt panel from Leslie Golomb and Louise SIlk’s project, “Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me,” is part of the “Stitch in Jewish Time” exhibit.</i>
Metro Briefs May 9
“A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles,” the latest exhibit at the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, opens Tuesday, May 14, and runs through Jul...
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ADL seeks probe of U.S. group linked to Hamas
by JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League is urging the Justice Department to investigate whether a U.S.-based group is raising money for Hamas. Viva Palestina U.S. is a campaign modeled after a simi...
Iran turmoil likely to benefit Israel
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Like the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago, the outcome of the postelection unrest in Iran could be of major strategic significance for the Middle East and for Israel....
Finding the healing power of creative work
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
The image of a dignified bird standing in an open palm shows up again and again in “Nature/Nurture: A Prayer,” a new exhibit from Pittsburgh artist Leslie Golomb showing through Sept. 10 at the Cha...
Freestyle swimmer succeeds
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Paul Weinstein completed his freshman year at Emory University, where he swam for the Emory Eagles. At the NCAA Division III National Championships at the University of Minnesota, Paul finished thi...
Jewish Pittsburgh man to eat Darfuri refugee diet for 30 days
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
After a quick bracha, Dr. Jim Lando and his lunch companion — this reporter — each dug into a not so heaping helping of wheat berries, garnished with a dab of yellow split pea mush. This reporter p...
White Oak tries to preserve its unique mikvah
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Gershon Gutman wriggles a key into the lock, but it won’t budge. “It’s the humidity,” he says. Gutman is trying to open a simple white door centered on the side of a detached two-car garage that s...
Trader Joe's targeted
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Anti-Israel Trader Joe’s boycott effort fizzles in Pittsburgh
Jewish community seeks Covenant solution
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Six months after filing for protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the future of The Covenant at South Hills, and its residents, is still unclear. Although Judge Judith Fitzgerald last Friday approve...
Clubhouse damaged
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
By Eric Lidji Associate Editor A Squirrel Hill assistance center for those with mental illness temporarily relocated last week, after a severe thunderstorm caused significant flooding to its usual ...
Can Jewish groups balance security with access?
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — A few days after last week’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the interim director of the Kansas City Jewish Community Center had to reassure the parent of a...