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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)
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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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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob welcomed visitors to its open house Sunday, Sept. 26. The Downtown congregation relocated from its previous location to make room for the Consol Energy Center. The...
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NEW YORK -- Let’s not be fooled.
The opening weeks of the United Nations General Assembly feature numerous side meetings between Jewish organizations and dozens of visiting dignitaries. Many of th...
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WASHINGTON -- For Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Jewish leaders, their second date featured a little more substance and a little less flirtation. And this time the Palestinian Authority president brought a...
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Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard conflicting reports regarding how long it really takes for a plastic grocery bag to decompose. Can you set the record straight?
— Martha Blount, San Diego
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PSAGOT, West Bank — Inside the cool of a cavernous wine cellar stacked high with oak barrels of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, the tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem to fade away eve...
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Jonah Paul doesn’t belong to a synagogue.
He’s a Jewishly active — if not religious — financial analyst who has been living in Pittsburgh for about a year. He grew up in a Reform family, attending...
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Join other moms with their infants/ toddlers to enjoy interactive Jewish songs and movements at Chabad of the South Hills Mommy & Me , Oct. 5, 12 at 10 a.m. Call Batya at (412) 344-2424 for reserv...
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So what does beer have to do with
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What is a manti?
And just where do the histories of Jews and rye converge?
You can find the answers to these and literally thousands of other questions in...
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Those of us who love reading about food and recipes should find Mark Bittman’s new book, “The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living,” (Simon & Schuster) a cookbook wort...
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One of the most important talks Bari Benjamin has had with her teenage daughter was about pop stars. But it wasn’t a discussion about music or fashion.
In February of 2009, R&B singer Chris Brown w...