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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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<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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<i> 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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
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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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<i> 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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<i> 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’...
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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...
Metro Briefs March 28
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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...
Obama received mixed reviews on his trip to Israel
by Mati Tuchfeld, Shlomo Cesana and Gideon Allon JNS.org
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Roman: Israel trip could lead to business, academic ties with Israel
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Kosher wine is their business, and business is good
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 22, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Seder leaders recount their rookie experiences
by Hilary Daninhirsch, Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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, ...
A Moishe House Passover
by Toby Tabachnick Staff Writer
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...