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<i>Adam Reinherz</i>
Shop class project teaches Hillel boys profound life lessons
In Judah, Jews buried their own. In Persia, Jews buried their own. Across Europe, throughout Italy, Spain and Poland, Jews buried their own. But in America, Jews essentially stopped.  Funeral homes...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Michael Chabon</i>
Metro Briefs May 23
Michael Chabon , the well-known Pittsburgh-raised Jewish American novelist whose books often have strong Jewish characters and sometimes Pittsburgh settings, has been named to The Jerusalem Post  ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Robert Rehak</i>
Czech diplomat touts culture as way to resolve Jewish-Arab split
When he was in Israel, Robert Rehak, then-Czech Republic cultural attaché to the Jewish state, practiced soccer diplomacy. Specifically, he organized a model Euro Cup competition for Arab and Jewis...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>This year’s delegation of disabled Israeli war veterans are pictured here at the “Point of View” statue on Crafton Heights. The sculpture depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770. The veterans were hosted by Jewish Pittsburgh families during their stay here and also visited Buffalo and Lancaster.</i>
Disabled Israeli vets experience the best Pittsburgh has to offer
For Meir Elhadad and seven other Israeli war veterans, the recently concluded trip to Pittsburgh and other American cities was a much-welcomed respite. It could even become a life-altering experien...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i> Pittsburgh volunteers Reesa Rosenthal, Jon Halpern, and Ellen Leger joined with staff members from Pitchon Lev to prepare food baskets for disadvantaged Israeli families on the just-concluded volunteers mission. (Jewish Federation photo by Alex Huber)</i>
Federation sends volunteers group to Israel on mission
Eight Pittsburghers returned this week from a Mission to Israel coordinated by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center. The weeklong mission revolved around volunteering in Karmiel and the Misgav re...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israeli researchers ‘light-years ahead’ on studies of cellphone risks
Most people have no idea that their iPhone comes with a warning to carry the device at least 10 mm away from the body, and to use a “hands-free” option like headphones or speaker, in order to preve...
May 23, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Annual Shavuot study draws hundreds
Young children ran through the halls and old men with long, weathered beards looked for places to sit.   Some wore jeans and T-shirts and tennis shoes, others, suits and ties. It was an eclectic gr...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Meyer “Skip” Grinberg</i>
JSHOF to make its 2013 inductions at annual banquet
The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania will hold its 31st Induction Ceremony and Banquet, Sunday, May 19, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 5915 Beacon St., Squirrel Hill. Cocktails and ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Shalit transfer to Egypt coming soon
by JTA
Jun 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will soon be transferred to Egypt as part of a larger prisoner swap, according to European diplomatic sources. The sources were quoted in the Isr...
YouTube removes Blumenthal video from its Web site
by JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — YouTube has removed footage of young American Jews making racist remarks about President Obama. Attempts to access the video Friday were met with a message from the video-sharing Web sit...
ADL seeks probe of U.S. group linked to Hamas
by JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League is urging the Justice Department to investigate whether a U.S.-based group is raising money for Hamas. Viva Palestina U.S. is a campaign modeled after a simi...
Iran turmoil likely to benefit Israel
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Like the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago, the outcome of the postelection unrest in Iran could be of major strategic significance for the Middle East and for Israel....
Finding the healing power of creative work
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
The image of a dignified bird standing in an open palm shows up again and again in “Nature/Nurture: A Prayer,” a new exhibit from Pittsburgh artist Leslie Golomb showing through Sept. 10 at the Cha...
Freestyle swimmer succeeds
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Paul Weinstein completed his freshman year at Emory University, where he swam for the Emory Eagles. At the NCAA Division III National Championships at the University of Minnesota, Paul finished thi...
Jewish Pittsburgh man to eat Darfuri refugee diet for 30 days
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
After a quick bracha, Dr. Jim Lando and his lunch companion — this reporter — each dug into a not so heaping helping of wheat berries, garnished with a dab of yellow split pea mush. This reporter p...
White Oak tries to preserve its unique mikvah
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Gershon Gutman wriggles a key into the lock, but it won’t budge. “It’s the humidity,” he says. Gutman is trying to open a simple white door centered on the side of a detached two-car garage that s...
Trader Joe's targeted
by Derek Kwait
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Anti-Israel Trader Joe’s boycott effort fizzles in Pittsburgh
Jewish community seeks Covenant solution
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Six months after filing for protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the future of The Covenant at South Hills, and its residents, is still unclear. Although Judge Judith Fitzgerald last Friday approve...