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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 | 3 3 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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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 | 8 8 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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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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Abrams named first director of Center for Women in Pittsburgh
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Becky Abrams never expected to be changing jobs again so soon, but opportunity has a way of knocking. Five months after leaving the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry to become communications affa...
Mamalashen speakers brought the language alive at the conference in Green Tree
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
There was Refoyl the songwriter; Naftali the farmer; and Yoshi the storyteller. In fact, if Tevye the milkman and Gimpel the fool had strolled through the halls of the Doubletree Hilton in Green Tr...
Metro Briefs May 2
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Diller Teen Fellows Program is looking for rising 10th and 11th grade Jewish students from Greater Pittsburgh committed to serving their community. Diller Teens participate in a 15-month pr...
Schwartz, Sherman and Snyder are winners of Diamond Awards
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Each year, the Pittsburgh Business Times presents the Diamond Award to a selection of the region's top CEOs, executive directors and equivalents at companies and nonprofit organizations in western...






Jewish education for teens to mark 60 years here
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
When she was a teenager in the 1950s, Bunny Morris did two things that “nice Jewish girls didn’t do.” “One, I was an athlete; and, two, I went to Hebrew school,” she recalled. It was less common b...
O'Connor's Corner
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor,  son of the late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor, unveils the new O’Connor’s Corner clock at a ceremony Wednesday, April 24, at the intersection of Phillips and ...
Donald Butler dies; lifelong Pittsburgher co-founded Hillel Academy
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Whether as a teacher, publisher or administrator, there were few Jews in Pittsburgh whose lives Donald Butler didn’t touch. Butler died, Monday, April 22, at home. He was 93. A lifelong Pittsburghe...
Ira Glass reveals his formula for ‘Reinventing Radio’
by Hilary Daninhirsch, For the Chronicle
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
If anyone can make someone’s job stocking vending machines an integral part of a news story about a U.S. aircraft carrier in Afghanistan during wartime, it’s Ira Glass, host and executive producer ...
‘The Blue Heart’ will make you pause and think — and it should
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
“Because there are no words, There can be no poems.” —    from “The Shock That Went Away” It’s a powerful line from one of Judith R. Robinson’s most resonant poems in her new anth...
Metro Briefs April 25
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh nominating committee has named Woody Ostrow as the next chair of the board. He will succeed the current chair, Louis Plung.  Pending board approval, Os...