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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 | 2 2 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 | 3 3 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 | 7 7 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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Blast brings lives together in Leegant’s novel, ‘Wherever You Go’
by Morton I. Teicher
For the Chronicle
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
In 2004, Joan Leegant published a collection of short stories, “An Hour In Paradise,” that earned well-merited plaudits for her. Now, she has written her first novel and it should embellish her rep...
JFilm and East Suburbs Jewish Connection sponsor showing of 'Eli & Ben'
by Release
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JFilm, in collaboration with the East Suburbs Jewish Connection, will show the director Ori Ravid’s film, “Eli & Ben,” at Destinta Theatres, North Versailles, Sunday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. The film, in H...
JNF recognizes PNC’s Eva Tansky Blum with highest award
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
About 250 people gathered at the Omni William Penn Hotel Monday, Oct. 18, to celebrate the life and accomplishments of PNC Bank’s Eva Tansky Blum, the recipient of Jewish national Fund’s Tree of Li...
Naveh to leave Holocaust Center in December
by Staff and releases
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Edie Naveh, who has served as director of the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh since 2005, will leave in December. Naveh, who directed the Holocaust Center during th...
Experts speak on controversial Marcellus shale drilling at JCC
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Oct 14, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Is the giant Marcellus shale deposit under much of western Pennsylvania the state’s next big economic boom, or is it an environmental hazard waiting to happen? Or is it both? A panel of experts in ...
Allen W. Lebovitz, Equity Realty partner, dies at 82
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Allen W. Lebovitz was constantly moving. Whether it was helping other people do it, through his work at Equity Realty, or his daily walks through Frick Park at dawn, or family trips around the worl...
Israeli health care professionals hone patient care skills in Burgh
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Managing and improving patient care was the subject of a weeklong program sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation for the benefit of 10 visiting Israeli health care workers, who were here fro...
Massive Shabbat dinner targets local graduate students
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Oct 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
At its height, Shabbat 1000, the Chabad-supported program to host a Shabbat dinner for 1,000 Pittsburgh university students, did what it was built to do. The annual dinner reached its goal of servi...
16 women to become b’not mitzva at Temple David
by Release
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Sixteen months ago 16 women, ages 37 to 87, all members of Temple David in Monroeville, challenged themselves to become b’not mitzva, a commitment usually reserved for 13-year-old girls. The first ...
Orthodox unsure how to react to anti-gay violence, discrimination
by Uriel Heilman
JTA
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- When the Republican candidate for New York governor, Carl Paladino, addressed an Orthodox crowd on Sunday about his opposition to gay pride parades and how children shouldn’t be “brainw...