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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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Screening comes with ethical issues experts say
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
(Second in a four-part series on genetic screening for Jews) Physically speaking, it is pretty easy to get screened to see if one might be a carrier for any of 18 identified genetic Ashkenazi di...
Squirrel Hill food pantry to offer nonkosher food at new location
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Soon, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry will serve the 15217 Zip code in every way. The Jewish Family & Children’s Service has announced that the pantry will begin offering nonkosher, as well...
‘Top Chef’ judge Gail Simmons serving up ‘Just Desserts’
by Devra Ferst
Forward
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Every reality competition with judges has a “mean one": Simon Cowell’s scathing remarks made plenty of “American Idol” contestants cry. For the first couple of seasons of “Top Chef,” t...
iPhone App explores, reveals Israeli settlements
by Jonah Lowenfeld
Jewish Journal
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- Want to know exactly where Ariel, the often discussed city-sized settlement in the West Bank, is located? How about when it was established or how many Israelis live there? There’s ...
Martin Peretz dropped as Harvard event speaker
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Martin Peretz has been dropped as a speaker from a Harvard University event. Peretz, the editor in chief of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, had been scheduled to speak at the 50th...
Documentary of cantorial journey to Poland plays in Pittsburgh.
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The word Poland has stigma among today’s Jews. It’s the place of Auschwitz, the land of long dead shtetls, destruction … destruction. And yet, 100 cantors recently went there to challenge that pe...
Israel ready to negotiate with Syria, Peres tells U.N.
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away," Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. In his address Monday in New York to the international body...
Olmert: U.S. offered to absorb 100,000 Palestinians
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush offered to absorb 100,000 Palestinian refugees if Israel and the Palestinians reached a peace deal, Ehud Olmert said. The fo...
Clare Burson's folk album inspired by grandmother's escape from Germany
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Clare Burson was a curious child. In a Sunday school classroom in Memphis, Tenn., her teachers Mrs. Weintraub and Mrs. Schechter taught 8-year-old Burson about something that happened in Europe in...
Abbas threatens to resign if talks fail
by JTA
Sep 19, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to resign if peace talks with Israel fail. Abbas made a statement indicating that he would quit over a failure of the rece...