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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...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Immigration examined
JCC art exhibit concludes with ‘Nests’
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
In the third exhibit of a three-part art exhibition at the American Jewish Museum at the Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center, entitled “Love/ Fences/Nests,” Anna Divinsky’s “Nests” exhibit is cur...
All adulturer-stoning aside, Jacobs’ year of living biblically changed his life
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
While A. J. Jacobs has given up the pursuit of adulterers to stone, he still maintains many of the practices he adopted during his “Year of Living Biblically.” Jacobs, the featured speaker at last ...
Jewish mock trial team ordeal teaches valuable lessons for all
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
A mock trial team from a Massachusetts Jewish day school got to compete for the national championship in Atlanta after coming close to abandoning its goal for religious reasons. The organizers for ...
Early childhood survey charts potential, challenges for Jewish schools
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
A survey of preschools and educators in Jewish Pittsburgh found that the programs here have much potential, but need considerable work. Pat Bidol-Padva, executive director of the Jewish Early Child...
Secured creditor stops auction for Covenant
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The auction of Covenant at South Hills, scheduled to occur this past Monday, was halted by one of the facility’s secured creditors because it was not satisfied with any of the bids it had received ...
Finance expert to speak at JF&CS annual meeting
by Mike Zoller
Associate Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Headlining the Jewish Family & Children’s Service annual meeting Thursday, May 21, will be family finance expert Neale Godfrey. Nationally renowned, Godfrey has written 16 books on finance and has...
Lieutenant: IDF soldiers held fire, did dishes to avoid clashes with Gazans civilians
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Lt. Avi Cohen tells a different story about the Gaza Strip fighting this past January than the version many people around the world hear. He ordered his men not to shoot back at two Hamas gunmen wh...
For Arab-Jewish singing duo, coexistence conquers criticism
by Dina Kraft
JTA
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — Singers Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad look out at the crowd cheering them on at a packed Tel Aviv bar and beam delighted, almost surprised smiles as they sing their duet: a call for peace ...
PJN project, out of money, may be forced to shut down
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
When Carnegie Mellon University launched its Web-based archive of Pittsburgh Jewish newspapers — past and present — Gabrielle Michalek couldn’t believe what happened next. While the Web site got mo...
Women workers making strides in Israel
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
With dogged determination, and a little help from the courts, the situation of Israeli women in the work place is getting better, an Israeli NA’AMAT official said. Masha Lubelsky, NA’AMAT represent...