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<i>Adam Reinherz</i>
Shop class project teaches Hillel boys profound life lessons
In Judah, Jews buried their own. In Persia, Jews buried their own. Across Europe, throughout Italy, Spain and Poland, Jews buried their own. But in America, Jews essentially stopped.  Funeral homes...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Michael Chabon</i>
Metro Briefs May 23
Michael Chabon , the well-known Pittsburgh-raised Jewish American novelist whose books often have strong Jewish characters and sometimes Pittsburgh settings, has been named to The Jerusalem Post  ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Robert Rehak</i>
Czech diplomat touts culture as way to resolve Jewish-Arab split
When he was in Israel, Robert Rehak, then-Czech Republic cultural attaché to the Jewish state, practiced soccer diplomacy. Specifically, he organized a model Euro Cup competition for Arab and Jewis...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 3 3 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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<i>Meyer “Skip” Grinberg</i>
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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Enter a hilarious world of ‘Jewtopia’
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 23, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Being Jewish can be difficult. It can be rewarding, or even frustrating. But maybe more than anything, it can be funny. Just ask Bryan Fogel. For the past seven years, the 36-year-old Los Angeles ...
Screening comes with ethical issues experts say
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
(Second in a four-part series on genetic screening for Jews) Physically speaking, it is pretty easy to get screened to see if one might be a carrier for any of 18 identified genetic Ashkenazi di...
Squirrel Hill food pantry to offer nonkosher food at new location
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Soon, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry will serve the 15217 Zip code in every way. The Jewish Family & Children’s Service has announced that the pantry will begin offering nonkosher, as well...
‘Top Chef’ judge Gail Simmons serving up ‘Just Desserts’
by Devra Ferst
Forward
Sep 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Every reality competition with judges has a “mean one": Simon Cowell’s scathing remarks made plenty of “American Idol” contestants cry. For the first couple of seasons of “Top Chef,” t...
iPhone App explores, reveals Israeli settlements
by Jonah Lowenfeld
Jewish Journal
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES -- Want to know exactly where Ariel, the often discussed city-sized settlement in the West Bank, is located? How about when it was established or how many Israelis live there? There’s ...
Martin Peretz dropped as Harvard event speaker
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Martin Peretz has been dropped as a speaker from a Harvard University event. Peretz, the editor in chief of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, had been scheduled to speak at the 50th...
Documentary of cantorial journey to Poland plays in Pittsburgh.
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The word Poland has stigma among today’s Jews. It’s the place of Auschwitz, the land of long dead shtetls, destruction … destruction. And yet, 100 cantors recently went there to challenge that pe...
Israel ready to negotiate with Syria, Peres tells U.N.
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria "right away," Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. In his address Monday in New York to the international body...
Olmert: U.S. offered to absorb 100,000 Palestinians
by JTA
Sep 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush offered to absorb 100,000 Palestinian refugees if Israel and the Palestinians reached a peace deal, Ehud Olmert said. The fo...
Clare Burson's folk album inspired by grandmother's escape from Germany
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Clare Burson was a curious child. In a Sunday school classroom in Memphis, Tenn., her teachers Mrs. Weintraub and Mrs. Schechter taught 8-year-old Burson about something that happened in Europe in...