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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)
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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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State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, issued the following statement (Watch the video) today on the reintroduction of House Bill 156, bipartisan anti-bullying legislation: "As someone who’s been...
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When Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit was released after five years of captivity by Hamas, the whole world noticed. What the world knows little of were the negotiations that led to Shalit’s freedom. T...
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Last spring, when Josh Harvey was a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, he — like most of his peers — was searching for a summer internship that would provide him with solid job experience to bui...
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(Editor's note: This is a corrected version of the original story)
Yoni Steinberg zips through the rooms of his rambling three-story Squirrel Hill dwelling, picking up and straightening up ahead...
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Harvey Sloan, former chief operating officer and senior vice president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, died overnight, Tuesday, Jan. 15 in Florida. He was 68.
Sloan was the financia...
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Congregation Beth Shalom will presents a lecture titled, “Genes, Jews, and Breast Cancer: What Every Jewish Woman (and Man) Should Know, Tuesday, on Feb. 5, 2013, 7:30 p.m., at the synagogue. The p...
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Business was so brisk Monday at The Pomegranate, the new kosher food venue at Carnegie Mellon University, that Zur Goldblum, its proprietor, had to excuse himself from a news interview after two qu...
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Community Day School Parent Association will present a workshop, “Raising Resilient Children,” Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. at CDS, 6424 Forward Ave. Dr. Junlei Li’s workshop will share ideas f...
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Depression in older adults can have dire consequences. It can exacerbate physical problems, lead to dementia and ultimately affect the ability of a person to live independently. A local team of res...
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Watch the Gilboa boys in a video After working on a class tzedaka project as a first-grader at Community Day School, Ari Gilboa was disappointed that his second-grade class had no such project. H...