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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...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Chabad to stage May 29 women’s concert at CMU
The musical and artistic talents of Pittsburgh’s Jewish women will be celebrated Wednesday, May 29, at a communitywide event for women hosted by Chabad of Pittsburgh. The concert, which will be hel...
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<i> Robert Rehák</i>
Metro Briefs May 16
Robert Řehák , cultural attaché at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C., will speak on “The History and Legends of the Jews in Prague,” Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the Ellis Scho...
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<i> Twin sisters Betty Kane and Judy Meyers play a piano duet in their Squirrel Hill home. Despite the twins’ blindness since birth, they’ve become accomplished pianists, and they often volunteer their musical services at community events. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
Sightless sisters make a lifetime of music
They sit next to each other on a piano bench covered with a pink pillow.  Playing in tandem, their fingers effortlessly glide up and down the piano keys, not missing a single note. The old Baldwin ...
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<i> Rabbi Ezra Ende lifts high a Torah during a recent Simchat Torah celebration with members of the Kiryat HaYovel Chavura community in Jerusalem. (Kiryat HaYovel Chavura photo)</i>
Ezra Ende returns to Pittsburgh; touts new ‘community’ in Jerusalem neighborhood
Rabbi Ezra Ende is so committed to religious pluralism in Jerusalem that he’s working to develop a new congregation to preserve it. The former associate rabbi at Temple Sinai, is revisiting Pittsbu...
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<i>Michael Levin, for whom the Lone Soldier Center is named, was killed in the Lebanon War of 2006.</i>
Israeli lone soldiers need help
You can find lone soldiers everywhere in Israeli society, Idan Ianovici said, which indicates just how great is the challenge he faces. “A lone soldier is a soldier who can’t live in their parent’...
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Fox Chapel Chabad honors community volunteers at charity gala
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Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Chabad Fox Chapel honored its own and celebrated Sunday, March 17, at its third annual Spark Gala event at the Marriott City Center, Downtown. The event, which drew some 250 people, raises money fo...
Director of Karmiel-based high school program seeks students here
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
A high school semester program is opening in Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether community of Karmiel, Israel, and its head came here last week looking for students. Sivan Bamberger, director of the Dr...
Metro Briefs March 21
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The 2013 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival : Faces of Media will showcase the 2012 Israeli and U.S. film, “InContact,” Saturday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Melwood Screening Room.  The ...
Local woman recounts Rosh Chodesh service at Kotel
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Members of the Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), including Pittsburgher and Temple Sinai member Lynn Magid Lazar, stood in solidarity with their Israeli sisters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last w...
The Chronicle Cooks goes to Hillel JUC
by Angela Leibowicz, Community/Web Editor
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Four boxes of brisket totaling 275 pounds, 100 pounds of chicken, 675 matzo balls, 100 pounds of chicken bones, and 50 pounds each of carrots, celery and onions, sat in Hillel Jewish University Cen...
JFilm releases its 2013 Festival lineup
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This is a year of transition and celebration for the 2013 JFilm Festival. Transition, in that the festival is moving from its old venue at SouthSide Works Cinema to the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hi...
Single Files: Ari is a giver, a people person and lots of fun at coffee shops
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
I enter the coffee shop and scan the room looking for Ari. I finally spot him comfortable on a couch, heavily engaged in conversation with an older man who seems to be important to him. I cannot he...
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation and Forbes Hospice named a leader in the 21st century by The Forward
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The Jewish Daily Forward has posted on its website the results of their project to identify America’s most inspiring rabbis.  The Forward had “hoped to engage readers and hear stories about rabbis...
Controversial Israeli human rights attorney to speak at Pitt
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 20, 2013 | 6 6 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Michael Sfard, a prominent Israeli human rights attorney known for representing Palestinians in cases against the Israeli government, will deliver a lecture entitled “Can the Occupier Provide Justi...




More than 600 volunteers participate locally on Good Deeds Day
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Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
An international day of volunteering, Good Deeds Day, came to Pittsburgh Sunday, March 10. Sponsored locally by the Jewish Federation Volunteer Center, the event was modeled on the Center’s Mitzvah...