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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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<i> 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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<i> 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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Friedman: Chaplains have much to offer inmates
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Oct 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
When prison chaplains go to work in the morning, Rabbi Manis Friedman says they should remember one overriding lesson: They’re not amateur psychologists. In fact, Friedman, the keynote speaker at ...
Netanyahu offers freeze for recognition
by JTA
Oct 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would reinstate a West Bank construction freeze if the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Netanyahu made the offer Monday in a ...
Coming up
by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Oct 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 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, ...
New bike lanes and paths are all the rage in U.S.
by Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Oct 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear EarthTalk: Are there efforts to increase bike lanes and paths around the nation? I’d like to be able to bike more instead of drive, but I’m concerned about safety. -- John Shields, Minneapol...
Pittsburgh women go online to service breast cancer patients
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
When a woman dealing with cancer loses her hair and her breasts, and becomes bloated from steroids, it can be hard to hold onto self-esteem, said Lisa Lurie, who was diagnosed two years ago with in...
CancerBeGlammed
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Oct 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
When a woman dealing with cancer loses her hair and her breasts, and becomes bloated from steroids, it can be hard to hold onto self-esteem, said Lisa Lurie, who was diagnosed two years ago with in...
Summer’s over, but stories carry on
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
As the first truly chilly fall week in Pittsburgh wraps up, we looked back to a season of warmer weather to find that some young Jews in the city experienced incredible summers. Here are a few of o...
Cabinet to vote on Israeli loyalty oath
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet will take up a loyalty oath requiring new citizens to swear allegiance to "the State of Israel -- a Jewish and democratic state." N...
Israel inks pact with U.S. for F-35s
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel signed an agreement to purchase 20 F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States. The contract, valued at about $2.75 billion, was signed Thursday at a ceremony in New York....
Jewish CEO second on Forbes list of powerful women
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A Jewish CEO was named the second most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. Several other Jewish women also joined Irene Rosenfeld, CEO and chairman of Kraft Foods Inc., on the 2010 Wor...