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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 | 3 3 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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Sanchez officially apologizes to Stewart
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez apologized to Jon Stewart for calling him a bigot and implying that Jews control the media. In a statement issued Wednesday, Sanchez said he called the star of Comedy...
Jewish leader arrested in alleged sex trade scheme
by JTA
Oct 08, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A Jewish billionaire who heads a branch of the World Jewish Congress was among 14 businessmen and underage prostitutes arrested on a yacht in Turkey. Alexander Mashkevitch, born in 1954, heads the...
Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts programming season
by Release
Oct 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts its 2010-2011 programming season in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with “Finding the Glass Slipper -- Fairytales...
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by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish Domestic Abuse Task Force of Pittsburgh starts its 2010-2011 programming season in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with “Finding the Glass Slipper -- Fairytales a...
Obama touts Israeli-developed solar company BrightSource
by Karin Kloosterman
The Green Prophet
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
To bolster his leadership position and defend his support of clean technology, US President Obama lauds the solar energy company BrightSource for creating jobs and green energy sources in Californi...
For Netanyahu to accept new freeze, U.S. might have to sweeten the deal
by Leslie Susser
JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Following reports of an unprecedented U.S. offer of a host of assurances in return for a 60-day extension of the freeze on building in West Bank settlements, some political analysts ar...
Spain, Britain to boycott Jerusalem tourism confab
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
MADRID, Spain -- Spain and Britain will boycott an international tourism conference being held in Jerusalem. The two countries will not send delegates to attend the Organization for Economic Coope...
N.J. paper rues hasty apology on gay announcement
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor's note: for The Chronicle's views on this subject, go to the Opinion section to read the Oct. 7 editorial.) NEW YORK -- After expressing regret for publishing a gay wedding announcement,...
Western Wall plaza to receive sweeping changes
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
A Jerusalem municipal planning committee approved a plan to make sweeping changes to the Western Wall plaza. The plan approved Monday by the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee would complete...
Jon Stewart responds to Rick Sanchez
by JTA
Oct 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart jabbed back at fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez. Sanchez was fired Oct. 1, a day after he suggested that Jews run the news business and called Stewart, who is Jewish,...