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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...
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<i>Lisa Lurie, one of the Cancer Be Glammed co-founders, on left, and Allderdice teacher Julie Farber, who with her top jewelry students in partnership with Pittsburgh-based website Cancer Be Glammed, paired the students with women coping with cancer in order to craft pieces of jewelry for them. Women were given their personalized jewelry May 4 at a gathering at the Summerset at Frick Park Community Center. (Photo courtesy of Paul Firemen)</i>
Cancer Be Glammed thanks to Allderdice jewelry class
An estimated 805,600 women will be diagnosed with some sort of cancer this year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. And 79,560 of them, almost 10 percent, will be in Pen...
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JF&CS holds annual meeting, examines impact of five-year plan
“The Imprint and Impact of Collaboration” was the theme at Jewish Family & Children’s Service’s annual meeting, held this past Monday evening at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Following a dessert recep...
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<i> 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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<i> 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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<i> 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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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...
Sanchez officially apologizes to Stewart
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez apologized to Jon Stewart for calling him a bigot and implying that Jews control the media. In a statement issued Wednesday, Sanchez said he called the star of Comedy...
Jewish leader arrested in alleged sex trade scheme
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A Jewish billionaire who heads a branch of the World Jewish Congress was among 14 businessmen and underage prostitutes arrested on a yacht in Turkey. Alexander Mashkevitch, born in 1954, heads the...
Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts programming season
by Release
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts its 2010-2011 programming season in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with “Finding the Glass Slipper -- Fairytales...
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by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts its 2010-2011 programming season in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with “Finding the Glass Slipper -- Fairytales a...
Obama touts Israeli-developed solar company BrightSource
by Karin Kloosterman
The Green Prophet
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
To bolster his leadership position and defend his support of clean technology, US President Obama lauds the solar energy company BrightSource for creating jobs and green energy sources in Californi...
For Netanyahu to accept new freeze, U.S. might have to sweeten the deal
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Following reports of an unprecedented U.S. offer of a host of assurances in return for a 60-day extension of the freeze on building in West Bank settlements, some political analysts ar...
Spain, Britain to boycott Jerusalem tourism confab
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
MADRID, Spain -- Spain and Britain will boycott an international tourism conference being held in Jerusalem. The two countries will not send delegates to attend the Organization for Economic Coope...
N.J. paper rues hasty apology on gay announcement
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor's note: for The Chronicle's views on this subject, go to the Opinion section to read the Oct. 7 editorial.) NEW YORK -- After expressing regret for publishing a gay wedding announcement,...