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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 | 8 8 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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Fuzzy, funny robot meets Weinberg Village residents in test case
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The way Romibo sidled up to Ruth Friedland, purring and cooing, prompted the Weinberg Village resident to quip that the fuzzy, pink robot was “a big flirt.” And Friedland smiled as she watched the ...
Retired British army officer says support for Israel widespread in his corps
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in ...
Metro Briefs April 11
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Irv Weiner will be honored for his 20 years of service as president of the Pliskover Cemetery Association as the Pliskovers celebrate their 105th anniversary. The celebration will take place at a...
Yiddish zitzung koomt tzu Pittsburgh
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Brukhim-haboim! Yiddish scholars and entertainers from all over the world will shlep to Pittsburgh at the end of this month for the 15th International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference & Ret...
Yom Hashoa recalls Holocaust, ‘Nazi Olympics’
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This year’s Yom Hashoa/Holocaust Remembrance Day program at the Jewish Community Center did more than pay tribute to the victims of the genocide. It also honored the athletes of the 1936 Olympics i...
Jewish parathlete from Australia recounts inspiring story here
by Andrew Goldstein, Chronicle Correspondent
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Adam Kellerman was a self-described “rowdy little kid with perfect health.”  He was active and loved to play sports. But his world soon turned upside down. Kellerman experienced a pain in his leg f...
Metro Briefs April 4
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
AIPAC will host the Annual Pittsburgh Community Reception, Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Beth Shalom. Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, is the...
Pittsburghers have mixed reactions to Obama’s Israel trip
by Lee Chottiner, Executive Editor
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
President Obama’s first trip to Israel as president has drawn mixed reactions from Pittsburghers living here and in the Jewish state. The president visited Israel from March 20 to 22. While there, ...
Cantor Berlin to retire
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
After serving as the spiritual leader of the Parkway Jewish Center near Monroeville for almost 10 years, Cantor Rick Berlin has announced his plans to retire following the high holidays later this ...
Pittsburgh woman, bombing survivor, meets Obama in Israel
by Toby Tabachnick, Staff Writer
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Regrettably, Rebecca Fuhrman knows firsthand what it’s like to suffer at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist. The Pittsburgh native, who now lives in Israel, was only 24 on March 23, 2011, when a ...