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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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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...
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Six young leaders from Pittsburgh were among more than 200 Jewish Federation leaders from 39 communities across North America, who joined together at the National Young Leadership Cabinet Retreat i...
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Samantha Schwartz and her sister Jessica just returned from Tanzania earlier this month, and they’re already making plans to go back.
But this is no vacation. The Schwartz sisters — Jessica, 22, w...