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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 | 6 6 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 | 3 3 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 | 4 4 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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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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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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Rejection brings fame to Pittsburgh Allderdice senior
by Hilary Daninhirsch, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
When Pittsburgh Allderdice senior Suzy Lee Weiss received rejection letters from four Ivy League universities, she was devastated. On the advice of her sister, who works for The Wall Street Journal...
Rauh program recounts in personal detail bygone Jewish business center
by Matthew Wein, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Between 1880 and 1950, the eight-block-stretch of Fifth Avenue from Crawford Street to Sixth Avenue was one of the country’s largest and most impressive Jewish business districts. Popularly known ...
Temple Sinai celebrates 25 years with Rabbi Gibson
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 24, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The very first weekend that Bob Katzen met Rabbi James Gibson, he knew, without question, that he had found his rabbi. It was 1988, and Temple Sinai had been searching for a new rabbi for about a y...
Orthodox feminist Sztokman to speak at Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky’s recent proposal — to expand the Western Wall Plaza to include a permanent section where men and women can pray together — may be a first step in ...
Brain drain
by Matthew Wein, For the Chronicle
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
As a scientist, Dr. Dan Gincel works to find solutions to complex problems through years of research, trial and error. So he’s thrilled at the opportunity to tackle a problem with a more immediate ...
Metro Briefs April 18
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Community Day School has hired Melissa Sevimli as the first director of its Early Childhood Education program.  She will begin work at CDS immediately and will be the lead teacher for the inaugur...
Jewish Pittsburgh celebrates Israel
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
It was a splendid way—and a splendid day—for Jewish Pittsburgh to celebrate 65 years of Israeli independence. The halls and courtyards of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Squirr...
Iran-Free Procurement bill clears state House
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The state House of Representatives has passed an amended bill that would bar companies with substantial investments in Iran’s energy sector from doing business with Pennsylvania. House Bill 201, wh...
Zola to speak on ‘Profiles in Courage’ at area Sisterhoods Day
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Gary Zola, executive director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati (AJA), will open the 2013 Women of Reform Judaism Atlantic District’s Sisterhood A...
Friendship Circle marks growth with annual fundraiser
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Friendship is Priceless,” the theme of this year’s annual Friendship Circle fundraiser dinner, pretty much sums up the experience of a participant in Friendship Circle. Just ask Stacey Diaz, the m...