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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 | 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...
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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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<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...
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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...
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by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The four Eastern Suburban congregations will join together for a regional Selichot service and celebration Saturday, Sept. 4, at Temple David in Monroeville. In addition to Temple David, members ...
Would the real Feisel Abdul Rauf please stand up?
by Sue Fishkoff and Ami Eden
JTA
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO — Who is Feisel Abdul Rauf? Initially, the controversy over building a $100-million Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero was about location, location, locat...
Book of Murray author tells tale behind the prophet
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Aug 26, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
David M. Bader is a very lucky man — he has the privilege to bring forth The Book of Murray, called “the Bible’s missing book,” to the world. OK, so maybe the book is just a satire of prophet stor...
Debate continues over side effects of CT scans
by Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear EarthTalk: Should I fear radiation exposure associated with medical scans such as CT scans, mammograms and the like? — Shelly Johansen, Fairbanks, Alaska The short answer is…maybe. Critics ...
Friendship Circle will be back in its offices by weekend, following flooding
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
After suffering extensive water damage to its Northumberland Street offices Aug. 15, the Friendship Circle plans to be back in its space, and up and running again this coming weekend. The Friendshi...
Will talks be about appearance or substance?
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — It’s a peace conference where nothing is off the table — or on it, for that matter. The Obama administration’s invitation to Palestinian and Israeli leaders to launch direct talks on S...
Rise up with Matisyahu
Aug 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish candidates — Frankel, Wiseman — square off in 23rd District race
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Aug 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s no surprise that Jews are both involved and interested in politics, but in Pittsburgh, one race leading to the Nov. 2 midterm elections has a special significance to the small-in-number, large...
Rauh receives painting, papers of Samuel Rosenberg
by Staff and Releases
Aug 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
A painting by Samuel Rosenberg and the papers and photographs belonging to the famous Jewish Pittsburgh artist have been donated to the Rauh Jewish Archives of the Heinz History Center. The donatio...
Extreme heat damages Israeli apple harvest
by JTA
Aug 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel's apple harvest has been severely damaged by extreme heat. Nearly 2,500 acres of orchards were damaged in Israel's Galilee and Golan during an intense heat wave last week, apple...