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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)
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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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Irv Weiner will be honored for his 20 years of service as president of the Pliskover Cemetery Association as the Pliskovers celebrate their 105th anniversary. The celebration will take place at a...
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Brukhim-haboim! Yiddish scholars and entertainers from all over the world will shlep to Pittsburgh at the end of this month for the 15th International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference & Ret...
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This year’s Yom Hashoa/Holocaust Remembrance Day program at the Jewish Community Center did more than pay tribute to the victims of the genocide. It also honored the athletes of the 1936 Olympics i...
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Adam Kellerman was a self-described “rowdy little kid with perfect health.” He was active and loved to play sports. But his world soon turned upside down. Kellerman experienced a pain in his leg f...
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AIPAC will host the Annual Pittsburgh Community Reception, Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Beth Shalom. Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, is the...
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President Obama’s first trip to Israel as president has drawn mixed reactions from Pittsburghers living here and in the Jewish state. The president visited Israel from March 20 to 22. While there, ...
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After serving as the spiritual leader of the Parkway Jewish Center near Monroeville for almost 10 years, Cantor Rick Berlin has announced his plans to retire following the high holidays later this ...
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Regrettably, Rebecca Fuhrman knows firsthand what it’s like to suffer at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist. The Pittsburgh native, who now lives in Israel, was only 24 on March 23, 2011, when a ...
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Twenty Israeli teens from Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether communities of Karmiel and Misgav joined with the 19 local Diller Teen Fellows last week to experience Jewish life, American-style. The cu...
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While Passover is a time for families to gather at happy and plentiful seders, Matthew Bolton sees a more distressing side to the holiday. The new director of the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantr...