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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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NEW YORK — Whoever thought you’d see a former U.S. poet laureate singing a kitschy jingle on YouTube asking for funds for a small nonprofit that most of his readers have never heard of?
In today’s ...
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LOS ANGELES — As the end of the school year looms, Jewish geography awaits. Not the Jewish geography in which you thunderingly discover that your third cousin who lives in Milwaukee actually lives ...
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I know it’s been way too long since you have read an article about something that would be considered a lifestyle decision. We read about the G-20 summit coming to Pittsburgh, the recession, the m...
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Could you hold fast to your beliefs even if they went against your parents, family and friends? In the new novel “Sashenka,” by Simon Montefiore, the protagonist, Sashenka Zeitlin, is put to the t...
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When Cyril Wecht’s family gathers for their weekly Sunday dinners, it is always a lively atmosphere, but this past Sunday, they had a special reason to rejoice: in addition to celebrating his daugh...
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Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, spoke at the Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center Sunday about Jewish ...
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Stuart Pavilack’s new job is only a few feet from his old job, in more ways than one.
Pavilack is the new executive director for the Pittsburgh chapter of the Zionist Organization of America, and h...
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On a hunch, Rabbi Stephen Steindel walked to the bookshelf and pulled down a volume titled, “The Pledge,” by Leonard Slater. He opened the hardback book and turned to page 24.
Sure enough, his memo...
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Since Sinai, the student-teacher relationship in Judaism has been considered as sacred as the relationship between parent and child. In recognition of this, the Agency for Jewish Learning this past...
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Marshall Dayan had a love for Pittsburgh before ever setting foot in the city.
Dayan’s love for the Steelers began when he was just 13 and living in Macon, Ga. However, when he became the assistant...