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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 | 4 4 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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Israeli teens visit Pittsburgh to experience Jewish life in America
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Twenty Israeli teens from Pittsburgh’s Partnership2Gether communities of Karmiel and Misgav joined with the 19 local Diller Teen Fellows last week to experience Jewish life, American-style. The cu...
'We're signing up more families,' new pantry director says
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
While Passover is a time for families to gather at happy and plentiful seders, Matthew Bolton sees a more distressing side to the holiday. The new director of the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantr...
Metro Briefs March 28
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation was included in a list of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” published by The Jewish Daily Forward. The list of 36 rabbis, who come from across the...
Obama received mixed reviews on his trip to Israel
by Mati Tuchfeld, Shlomo Cesana and Gideon Allon JNS.org
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Reaction was mixed in Israel to the public statements made by President Barack Obama during his visit, with some embracing Obama’s appeal for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflic...
Roman: Israel trip could lead to business, academic ties with Israel
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Gregg Roman wants to promote trade relations between southwestern Pennsylvania and Israel. It’s one reason he signed on to a statewide trip to Israel this month for Jewish leaders — principally fro...
Kosher wine is their business, and business is good
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Mar 22, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Even though a growing number of Jews do not affiliate — they may not even be religious — kosher wine dealer Jay Buchsbaum said business is good. Buchsbaum, vice president of Royal Wine Corp., in Ba...
Seder leaders recount their rookie experiences
by Hilary Daninhirsch, Chronicle Correspondent
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Why is this seder different from all other seders?  Because at all other seders, they were guests. Now, they’re the hosts. That “fifth question” could have been asked by Sarah Kant and Jane Segal, ...
A Moishe House Passover
by Toby Tabachnick Staff Writer
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Finish up the chametz. Clean the house. Shop and cook for the seder: it’s the same to-do list each year. But for the five 20-somethings living at Pittsburgh’s first Moishe House, this season kicks ...
Fox Chapel Chabad honors community volunteers at charity gala
by Staff and releases
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...