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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...
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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
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Join other moms with their infants/ toddlers to enjoy interactive Jewish songs and movements at Chabad of the South Hills Mommy & Me , Sept. 14, 21, 28 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and Oct. 5, 12 at 10...
Dardashti culls female inspiration from biblical, talmudic texts for ‘The Naming’
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Galeet Dardashti was the perfect performer to make “The Naming,” her latest CD, which pays tribute to the heroines of the Tanakh. In fact, she was prepared at an early age to make this album. Skept...
Hollywood writer Emily Skopov now does her job from Pittsburgh’s North Hills
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Sep 13, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
There’s a Yiddish proverb: “If fortune calls, offer her a chair.” Such is the ever-present theme in Emily Skopov’s life. The native New Yorker, now Marshall Township resident, had planned to be an...
Black, Jewish musical cultures collide
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A few months back, an album called “Black Sabbath” showed up on my desk. As a longtime fan of that legendary heavy metal band, I naturally took interest, especially as there was no mention of Ozzy ...
‘Invisible Harry Gold’ humanizes Soviet spy without excusing damage done
by Morton I. Teicher
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
During World War II and the years that immediately preceded and followed it, the Soviet Union managed to persuade a few Americans, including some Jews who were Communist sympathizers, to serve as s...
Morgantown recital presents Holocaust-inspired music
by By Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Tree of Life Congregation in Morgantown, W.Va., will present a recital Tuesday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. with several pieces inspired by the atrocities of the Holocaust, including the recital’s centerpi...
Day schools report enrollment increase for 2010-11 term
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
For the first time in 10 years, Community Day has reversed its declining enrollment trend, its administration has announced. Last year, the Squirrel Hill-based K-8 Jewish day school started the sch...
Michael Oren, making the case for Obama
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Michael Oren outlines what may be his toughest assignment: Making the case to a skeptical public for a leader who’s hard to pin down. Pitching Bibi to the Americans? No, that’s an easy...
After some urging, WVU offers kosher food at residence halls
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 12, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Kosher meals are now available to students in the dining halls of West Virginia University, in Morgantown, thanks to the efforts of one Israeli student and a Chabad rabbi. Sharon Sinay, a freshman ...
The peace talks -- and their obstacles
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Peace in a year? Try getting past Sept. 26. Or is it 30? Direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis have barely begun and already the sides are facing their first major hurdle --...