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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 | 2 2 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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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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<i>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)</i>
Cancer Be Glammed thanks to Allderdice jewelry class
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...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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JF&CS holds annual meeting, examines impact of five-year plan
“The Imprint and Impact of Collaboration” was the theme at Jewish Family & Children’s Service’s annual meeting, held this past Monday evening at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Following a dessert recep...
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Recipents of the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) program are pictured here with their award. They are, from left to right, Charlene Tissenbaum, chair of the P2G Youth Kesher (Connection) Committee; Jan Levinson, P2G co-chair; Andrea Arbel, director of the Partnership Unit, Jewish Agency for Israel; Cindy Goodman Leib, P2G co-chair; Sue Linzer, Jewish Federation associate director of planning and director of overseas operations; and Debbie Swartz, Pittsburgh P2G coordinator. (Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh photo)</i>
Jewish Pittsburgh, partner communities, garner JAFI award for P2G project
The Pittsburgh Jewish community received First Place recognition in the 2013 Awards of Excellence presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel for outstanding efforts in the Partnership2Gether (P2G) p...
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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...
Rejection brings fame to Pittsburgh Allderdice senior
by Hilary Daninhirsch, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
When Pittsburgh Allderdice senior Suzy Lee Weiss received rejection letters from four Ivy League universities, she was devastated. On the advice of her sister, who works for The Wall Street Journal...
Rauh program recounts in personal detail bygone Jewish business center
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Between 1880 and 1950, the eight-block-stretch of Fifth Avenue from Crawford Street to Sixth Avenue was one of the country’s largest and most impressive Jewish business districts. Popularly known ...
Temple Sinai celebrates 25 years with Rabbi Gibson
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 24, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The very first weekend that Bob Katzen met Rabbi James Gibson, he knew, without question, that he had found his rabbi. It was 1988, and Temple Sinai had been searching for a new rabbi for about a y...