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<i>Adam Reinherz</i>
Shop class project teaches Hillel boys profound life lessons
In Judah, Jews buried their own. In Persia, Jews buried their own. Across Europe, throughout Italy, Spain and Poland, Jews buried their own. But in America, Jews essentially stopped.  Funeral homes...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Michael Chabon</i>
Metro Briefs May 23
Michael Chabon , the well-known Pittsburgh-raised Jewish American novelist whose books often have strong Jewish characters and sometimes Pittsburgh settings, has been named to The Jerusalem Post  ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Robert Rehak</i>
Czech diplomat touts culture as way to resolve Jewish-Arab split
When he was in Israel, Robert Rehak, then-Czech Republic cultural attaché to the Jewish state, practiced soccer diplomacy. Specifically, he organized a model Euro Cup competition for Arab and Jewis...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>This year’s delegation of disabled Israeli war veterans are pictured here at the “Point of View” statue on Crafton Heights. The sculpture depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770. The veterans were hosted by Jewish Pittsburgh families during their stay here and also visited Buffalo and Lancaster.</i>
Disabled Israeli vets experience the best Pittsburgh has to offer
For Meir Elhadad and seven other Israeli war veterans, the recently concluded trip to Pittsburgh and other American cities was a much-welcomed respite. It could even become a life-altering experien...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pittsburgh volunteers Reesa Rosenthal, Jon Halpern, and Ellen Leger joined with staff members from Pitchon Lev to prepare food baskets for disadvantaged Israeli families on the just-concluded volunteers mission. (Jewish Federation photo by Alex Huber)</i>
Federation sends volunteers group to Israel on mission
Eight Pittsburghers returned this week from a Mission to Israel coordinated by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center. The weeklong mission revolved around volunteering in Karmiel and the Misgav re...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israeli researchers ‘light-years ahead’ on studies of cellphone risks
Most people have no idea that their iPhone comes with a warning to carry the device at least 10 mm away from the body, and to use a “hands-free” option like headphones or speaker, in order to preve...
May 23, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Annual Shavuot study draws hundreds
Young children ran through the halls and old men with long, weathered beards looked for places to sit.   Some wore jeans and T-shirts and tennis shoes, others, suits and ties. It was an eclectic gr...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Meyer “Skip” Grinberg</i>
JSHOF to make its 2013 inductions at annual banquet
The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania will hold its 31st Induction Ceremony and Banquet, Sunday, May 19, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5915 Beacon St., Squirrel Hill. Cocktails and ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some Israeli, U.S. officials move to keep the volume down
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Stop the shouting, we’re trying to get something done over here — that’s the message from some U.S. and Israeli officials after weeks of reports about widening divergences over the set...
Jerusalem’s big dig nearing end
by Amihai Zippor
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — When Israel launched its effort in the 1990s to install the country’s first light rail system in Jerusalem, it was to be the impetus for a broader revitalization effort aimed at replaci...
Wanted: Fundraising ideas
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Summer vacation: J-Tours and detours into Jewish geography
by Edmon J. Rodman
JTA
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Summertime wines will take your mind off the headlines
by Uri Markovitz
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Book review: 'Sashenka’
by Michele Jones
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Wecht looks to resume normal life after charges were dropped
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Speaker focuses on Jewish children with special needs
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Pavilack takes over at ZOA
by Eric Lidji
Staff Writer
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Steindels give rabbi’s library to Beth Shalom
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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...