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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)
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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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When local entrepreneur Josh Knauer first got the call in May, telling him the White House needed his expertise in bioinformatics — the field of managing and analyzing biological data — the news ca...
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For only the third time in the last 70 years, the Conservative movement has published a new High Holy Days prayer book, or machzor, just in time to ring in 5771.
But initial acceptance of the new p...
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This High Holy Days season, for the first time, would-be congregants can worship how and when they choose, all with a click of their television remote.
Shalom TV, the video on-demand Jewish cable n...
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In Jewish history, one can argue, there has been not one Holocaust, but two.
There is the mass extermination of European Jews during World War II, which, 65 years later, is still a fresh wound in m...
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LOS ANGELES — What can Tiger and Toyota teach us about teshuva?
With Selichot, a service of repentance-centered prayers said in preparation for the High Holy Days, coming on the night of Saturday, ...
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. Prime Minister Netanyahu and I just had a very productive discussion about our shared efforts to advance the cause of peace between Israe...
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A young woman with long auburn hair sits surrounded by friends and family in her mother’s living room while holding a tiny baby on a pillow in her lap.
She is the sandek at th...
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A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashana.
WBZ-TV chose the Sept. 8 date of the debate, the Boston Herald reported. S...
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A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe in Concord, N.H., ruled Aug. 27 that prison inmates...
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JERUSALEM -- Four Jewish Israelis were killed when gunmen opened fire on the car they were riding in at the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.
Tuesday night's attack in the West Bank comes on t...