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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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Twenty Israeli teens from Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether communities of Karmiel and Misgav joined with the 19 local Diller Teen Fellows last week to experience Jewish life, American-style. The cu...
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While Passover is a time for families to gather at happy and plentiful seders, Matthew Bolton sees a more distressing side to the holiday. The new director of the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantr...
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Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation was included in a list of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” published by The Jewish Daily Forward. The list of 36 rabbis, who come from across the...
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Reaction was mixed in Israel to the public statements made by President Barack Obama during his visit, with some embracing Obama’s appeal for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflic...
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Gregg Roman wants to promote trade relations between southwestern Pennsylvania and Israel. It’s one reason he signed on to a statewide trip to Israel this month for Jewish leaders — principally fro...
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Even though a growing number of Jews do not affiliate — they may not even be religious — kosher wine dealer Jay Buchsbaum said business is good. Buchsbaum, vice president of Royal Wine Corp., in Ba...
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Why is this seder different from all other seders? Because at all other seders, they were guests. Now, they’re the hosts. That “fifth question” could have been asked by Sarah Kant and Jane Segal, ...
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Finish up the chametz. Clean the house. Shop and cook for the seder: it’s the same to-do list each year. But for the five 20-somethings living at Pittsburgh’s first Moishe House, this season kicks ...
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Chabad Fox Chapel honored its own and celebrated Sunday, March 17, at its third annual Spark Gala event at the Marriott City Center, Downtown. The event, which drew some 250 people, raises money fo...
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A high school semester program is opening in Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether community of Karmiel, Israel, and its head came here last week looking for students. Sivan Bamberger, director of the Dr...