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Councilman Cory O'Connor with Perri Tuchman
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Perri Tuchman, For the Chronicle
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(Editor’s note: The following is the first place winner of the Second Annual JAA Essay Contest, which was open to students in grades 5, 6 and 7. Students from Hillel Academy, Yeshiva Schools and C...
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Metro Briefs May 23
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Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
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Becky Abrams never expected to be changing jobs again so soon, but opportunity has a way of knocking. Five months after leaving the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry to become communications affa...
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Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
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There was Refoyl the songwriter; Naftali the farmer; and Yoshi the storyteller. In fact, if Tevye the milkman and Gimpel the fool had strolled through the halls of the Doubletree Hilton in Green Tr...
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The Diller Teen Fellows Program is looking for rising 10th and 11th grade Jewish students from Greater Pittsburgh committed to serving their community. Diller Teens participate in a 15-month pr...
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Each year, the Pittsburgh Business Times presents the Diamond Award to a selection of the region's top CEOs, executive directors and equivalents at companies and nonprofit organizations in western...
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Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
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When she was a teenager in the 1950s, Bunny Morris did two things that “nice Jewish girls didn’t do.” “One, I was an athlete; and, two, I went to Hebrew school,” she recalled. It was less common b...
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Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor, son of the late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor, unveils the new O’Connor’s Corner clock at a ceremony Wednesday, April 24, at the intersection of Phillips and ...
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Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
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Whether as a teacher, publisher or administrator, there were few Jews in Pittsburgh whose lives Donald Butler didn’t touch. Butler died, Monday, April 22, at home. He was 93. A lifelong Pittsburghe...
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Hilary Daninhirsch, For the Chronicle
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If anyone can make someone’s job stocking vending machines an integral part of a news story about a U.S. aircraft carrier in Afghanistan during wartime, it’s Ira Glass, host and executive producer ...
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Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
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“Because there are no words,
There can be no poems.”
— from “The Shock That Went Away”
It’s a powerful line from one of Judith R. Robinson’s most resonant poems in her new anth...
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh nominating committee has named Woody Ostrow as the next chair of the board. He will succeed the current chair, Louis Plung. Pending board approval, Os...
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