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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)</i>
Jewish Pittsburgh, partner communities, garner JAFI award for P2G project
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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Chabad to stage May 29 women’s concert at CMU
The musical and artistic talents of Pittsburgh’s Jewish women will be celebrated Wednesday, May 29, at a communitywide event for women hosted by Chabad of Pittsburgh. The concert, which will be hel...
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<i> Robert Rehák</i>
Metro Briefs May 16
Robert Řehák , cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C., will speak on “The History and Legends of the Jews in Prague,” Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the Ellis Scho...
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Twin sisters Betty Kane and Judy Meyers play a piano duet in their Squirrel Hill home. Despite the twins’ blindness since birth, they’ve become accomplished pianists, and they often volunteer their musical services at community events. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
Sightless sisters make a lifetime of music
They sit next to each other on a piano bench covered with a pink pillow.  Playing in tandem, their fingers effortlessly glide up and down the piano keys, not missing a single note. The old Baldwin ...
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Rabbi Ezra Ende lifts high a Torah during a recent Simchat Torah celebration with members of the Kiryat HaYovel Chavura community in Jerusalem. (Kiryat HaYovel Chavura photo)</i>
Ezra Ende returns to Pittsburgh; touts new ‘community’ in Jerusalem neighborhood
Rabbi Ezra Ende is so committed to religious pluralism in Jerusalem that he’s working to develop a new congregation to preserve it. The former associate rabbi at Temple Sinai, is revisiting Pittsbu...
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<i>Michael Levin, for whom the Lone Soldier Center is named, was killed in the Lebanon War of 2006.</i>
Israeli lone soldiers need help
You can find lone soldiers everywhere in Israeli society, Idan Ianovici said, which indicates just how great is the challenge he faces. “A lone soldier is a soldier who can’t live in their parent’...
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<i>Chronicle photos by Lindsay Dill</i>
J-Site graduation day
Agency for Jewish Learning alumna Bunny Reingold Morris offers advice at the Chatham University Chapel May 5 for AJL's 2013 commencement and 60th Anniversary ceremony. About 100 graduates, friends,...
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<i>David Ehrenwerth</i>
Ehrenwerth offers inside look at government service
David Ehrenwerth attended a few meetings in the White House last December when he noticed a chanukia sitting on a wooden table where Cabinet members enter the building for gatherings. Of course, no...
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Norma Sobel’s giving, fundraising influenced a younger generation
Norma Kirkell Sobel, a Jewish leader locally and nationally in many capacities, whose active participation touched many organizations, died Tuesday, April 30. She was 73. “There was a gazillion org...
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Star coach headlines Maccabi USA event — and keeps his shirt on
by Jacob Berkman
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — It’s not unheard of to find Bruce Pearl, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, somewhere in public screaming with his shirt off — be it as a spectator rooting on the...
Specter switches to Democratic Party
by Eric Fingerhut
JTA
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, the only Jewish Republican in the U.S. Senate, is becoming a Democrat. Specter, a longtime Pennsylvania lawmaker, announced Tuesday that he switched his party affiliati...
Before meeting, Obama and Netanyahu negotiate Middle East policy
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — It’s like any courtship: Before Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu get to the big dance, they’ve got to learn the steps. Delicate negotiations over Middle East policy between the two ...
Israel responds harshly to Ahmadinejad rhetoric
by By Leslie Susser
Apr 22, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — The timing of the Iranian president’s latest fulmination against Israel was particularly auspicious. Speaking from the podium of the Durban II conference in Geneva on the eve of Holocau...
Greenberg, Fuld remind us why we love baseball
by Jonathan Mayo
Apr 22, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the things I love most about covering baseball, especially my usual stomping grounds in the Minor Leagues, are the guys who aren’t the huge prospects, who don’t have the best tools. Sure tho...
Harrisburg celebrates Yom Hashoa with annual ceremony
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
HARRISBURG — Gov. Edward Rendell and his staff held their 2009 Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust Tuesday. An annual event, the service included several speakers, including the governor and memb...
Legislature takes up Iran divestment bill
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
HARRISBURG — Members of Pittsburgh’s Iran Task Force were in Harrisburg Tuesday to support state Rep. Josh Shapiro as he announced he would reintroduce his terror-free investing legislation. “I fee...
Snyder joins survivors of many atrocities at D.C. rally
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 3 3 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sunday, Herman Snyder addressed 600 people at an anti-genocide rally in front of the White House in Washington. On Monday, he spoke to three classes of students at Baldwin High School. And Tuesd...
Chinese delegation visits CDC, studies career counseling methods
by Dev Meyers
Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
A delegation of Chinese career counselors visited the Career Development Center of Jewish Family and Children’s Service in Squirrel Hill on Friday. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations se...
W.Va. Holocaust commission struggles for funding, survival
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WHEELING, W.Va. — As Mary Haas stood before a crowd of 50 people Sunday at a Temple Shalom Yom Hashoa program, preparing to present a documentary on the life of Israeli poet Hannah Senesh, she made...