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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 | 4 4 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...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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Morgantown recital presents Holocaust-inspired music
by By Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Tree of Life Congregation in Morgantown, W.Va., will present a recital Tuesday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m. with several pieces inspired by the atrocities of the Holocaust, including the recital’s centerpi...
Day schools report enrollment increase for 2010-11 term
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
For the first time in 10 years, Community Day has reversed its declining enrollment trend, its administration has announced. Last year, the Squirrel Hill-based K-8 Jewish day school started the sch...
Michael Oren, making the case for Obama
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Michael Oren outlines what may be his toughest assignment: Making the case to a skeptical public for a leader who’s hard to pin down. Pitching Bibi to the Americans? No, that’s an easy...
After some urging, WVU offers kosher food at residence halls
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 12, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Kosher meals are now available to students in the dining halls of West Virginia University, in Morgantown, thanks to the efforts of one Israeli student and a Chabad rabbi. Sharon Sinay, a freshman ...
The peace talks -- and their obstacles
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Peace in a year? Try getting past Sept. 26. Or is it 30? Direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis have barely begun and already the sides are facing their first major hurdle --...
Jewish groups step up efforts to combat anti-Muslim bigotry
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
SAN FRANCISCO -- Jewish groups have stepped up efforts to combat anti-Muslim bigotry, with several national initiatives announced this week and supporting statements coming in from a range of Jewis...
Returning from D.C., Abbas and Bibi maintain stances after talks
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Last week's gentle give and take between the Israelis and Palestinians appears to have survived the tarmac moment. Reiterated, if qualified, commitments to the U.S.-brokered peace pr...
Obama, Biden to consult with Jews before Rosh Hashana
by JTA
Sep 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will consult with Jewish leaders on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Obama will speak with rabbis in a conference call Tuesday in what appears se...
WQED-FM and WQEJ-FM to broadcast programs to commemorate High Holy Days
by Release
Sep 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WQED-FM 89.3 and WQEJ-FM 89.7 in Johnstown will broadcast several programs to commemorate the High Holy Days: • Tuesday, Sept. 7, 9-10 p.m. — “Birthday of the World: Part 1, Rosh Hashana” Leonard N...
In new play, Patinkin tackles an Anne Frank obsession
by Sue Fishkoff
JTA
Sep 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Mandy Patinkin says he only plays Jewish characters. Che Guevara, his Tony Award-winning role in the 1980 Broadway play, “Evita"? Jewish. Inigo “prepare to die” Montoya in “The...