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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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JERUSALEM -- Israel's apple harvest has been severely damaged by extreme heat. Nearly 2,500 acres of orchards were damaged in Israel's Galilee and Golan during an intense heat wave last week, apple...
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli police have recommended that prosecuters indict Ehud Olmert in a real estate scandal. The police investigations unit turned over its file on the Holyland apartment project scan...
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JERUSALEM -- A fund overseen by Norway's Ministry of Finance divested from two Israeli companies involved in construction in the West Bank. The Norway Oil Fund, managed by the Norwegian Central Ban...
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A suspect was arrested in the shooting of a Jewish man in Brooklyn. Police on Friday arrested Jaquan Vaughn, an ex-convict, in the shooting on Aug. 10 of Baruch Halberstam, a Chasidic rabbinical st...
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( Editor’s note: The Chronicle, in cooperation with The Green Prophet, an environmental news blog covering Green news from the Middle East, will republish stories from the Green Prophet.)
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WHIPPANY, N.J. -- Although she herself is not deaf, Dena Bodian developed a fascination for American Sign Language during her childhood in New Jersey.
“I was in Florence Heller’s kindergarten clas...
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A former hip-hop record executive who became an Orthodox Jew was gunned down in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
Yoseph Robinson, 34, was shot to death at MB Vineyards in Flatbush, a kosher liquor stor...
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JERUSALEM -- Defense Minister Ehud Barak named a new chief of staff for Israel's military in the wake of a scandal involving his choice.
Barak on Sunday named Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant to replace curr...
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JERUSALEM -- NBA All-Star Dwight Howard will visit Israel to hold a basketball clinic for teens.
Howard, of the Orlando Magic, and several former NBA All-Stars will also scrimmage against the Macc...
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Amare Stoudemire of the New York Knicks reportedly said he is a practicing Jew "spiritually and culturally."
Stoudemire, who last month visited Israel on a spiritual journey to explore his Jewish ...