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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)
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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...
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How did a nice Jewish boy from Squirrel Hill end up in an East Harlem drug rehabilitation center? Fortunately, for Eddie Rosenstein, it wasn’t for treatment, but it was to create the award-winning ...
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Three more finalists have been named in the 2013 “Campus Superstar” competition. They are among the 10 finalists who will vie for a $5,000 grand prize Thursday, March 21, at Carnegie Music Hall in ...
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With the sequestration deadline looming last week, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh held a forum to discuss what across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending could ultimately mean to ...
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It was a typical Wednesday night at the upscale Galleria mall of Mt. Lebanon. A handful of moviegoers were filing into the Carmike Cinemas. A couple people were typing away at laptops on tables out...
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Jewish Family & Children’s Service will host a conference for those with special needs and their family members, Wednesday, March 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rodef Shalom Congregation. The conference...
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The federal government is widening its probe and prosecution of Americans with bank accounts in Israel who fail to report those accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Washington-b...
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Despite ongoing demonstrations and political strife, new Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Mohamed M. Tawfik insists that Egypt is stable, both economically and diplomatically. Speaking Frid...
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Aaron Weil, executive director and CEO of the Hillel Jewish University Center, will leave that position this summer to head up a fast-growing Hillel at the second largest university in the nation. ...
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No joke: Alan Olifson moved from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh about two years ago so he would have more opportunities to perform comedy. As it turned out, he was right. Olifson, who hosts The Moth’s m...
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The Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, in collaboration with JFilm The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum and the Partnership2Gether, a program of the Jewish Federation of G...