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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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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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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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’...
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Chronicle photos by Lindsay Dill</i>
J-Site graduation day
Agency for Jewish Learning alumna Bunny Reingold Morris offers advice at the Chatham University Chapel May 5 for AJL's 2013 commencement and 60th Anniversary ceremony. About 100 graduates, friends,...
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>David Ehrenwerth</i>
Ehrenwerth offers inside look at government service
David Ehrenwerth attended a few meetings in the White House last December when he noticed a chanukia sitting on a wooden table where Cabinet members enter the building for gatherings. Of course, no...
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Norma Sobel’s giving, fundraising influenced a younger generation
Norma Kirkell Sobel, a Jewish leader locally and nationally in many capacities, whose active participation touched many organizations, died Tuesday, April 30. She was 73. “There was a gazillion org...
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<i>A quilt panel from Leslie Golomb and Louise SIlk’s project, “Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me,” is part of the “Stitch in Jewish Time” exhibit.</i>
Metro Briefs May 9
“A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles,” the latest exhibit at the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, opens Tuesday, May 14, and runs through Jul...
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Metro Briefs April 11
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Irv Weiner will be honored for his 20 years of service as president of the Pliskover Cemetery Association as the Pliskovers celebrate their 105th anniversary. The celebration will take place at a...
Yiddish zitzung koomt tzu Pittsburgh
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Brukhim-haboim! Yiddish scholars and entertainers from all over the world will shlep to Pittsburgh at the end of this month for the 15th International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference & Ret...
Yom Hashoa recalls Holocaust, ‘Nazi Olympics’
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This year’s Yom Hashoa/Holocaust Remembrance Day program at the Jewish Community Center did more than pay tribute to the victims of the genocide. It also honored the athletes of the 1936 Olympics i...
Jewish parathlete from Australia recounts inspiring story here
by Andrew Goldstein, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Adam Kellerman was a self-described “rowdy little kid with perfect health.”  He was active and loved to play sports. But his world soon turned upside down. Kellerman experienced a pain in his leg f...
Metro Briefs April 4
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AIPAC will host the Annual Pittsburgh Community Reception, Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Beth Shalom. Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, is the...
Pittsburghers have mixed reactions to Obama’s Israel trip
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
President Obama’s first trip to Israel as president has drawn mixed reactions from Pittsburghers living here and in the Jewish state. The president visited Israel from March 20 to 22. While there, ...
Cantor Berlin to retire
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
After serving as the spiritual leader of the Parkway Jewish Center near Monroeville for almost 10 years, Cantor Rick Berlin has announced his plans to retire following the high holidays later this ...
Pittsburgh woman, bombing survivor, meets Obama in Israel
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Regrettably, Rebecca Fuhrman knows firsthand what it’s like to suffer at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist. The Pittsburgh native, who now lives in Israel, was only 24 on March 23, 2011, when a ...
Israeli teens visit Pittsburgh to experience Jewish life in America
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
'We're signing up more families,' new pantry director says
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...