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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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<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 | 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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<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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Rocket from Gaza lands in Israel
by JTA
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- A rocket fired from Gaza landed in Israel's western Negev. The rocket fired early Sunday morning landed near a kibbutz orchard. It was the fifth rocket to hit Israeli territory in five...
Netanyahu hints at continuing freeze
by JTA
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled he would heed, in part, an appeal from President Obama to continue the settlement freeze. "Between zero and one there are a lot of p...
Gay Saudi diplomat fears persecution
by JTA
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A Saudi Arabian diplomat based in Los Angeles has requested political asylum because he is gay and close friends with a Jewish woman. The diplomat was identified Saturday by NBC News as Ali Ahmad A...
Coming up
by Angela Leibowicz
Community Editor
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Join other moms with their infants/ toddlers to enjoy interactive Jewish songs and movements at Chabad of the South Hills Mommy & Me , Sept. 14, 21, 28 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and Oct. 5, 12 at 10...
Dardashti culls female inspiration from biblical, talmudic texts for ‘The Naming’
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Galeet Dardashti was the perfect performer to make “The Naming,” her latest CD, which pays tribute to the heroines of the Tanakh. In fact, she was prepared at an early age to make this album. Skept...
Hollywood writer Emily Skopov now does her job from Pittsburgh’s North Hills
by Hilary Daninhirsch
Chronicle Correspondent
Sep 13, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
There’s a Yiddish proverb: “If fortune calls, offer her a chair.” Such is the ever-present theme in Emily Skopov’s life. The native New Yorker, now Marshall Township resident, had planned to be an...
Black, Jewish musical cultures collide
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A few months back, an album called “Black Sabbath” showed up on my desk. As a longtime fan of that legendary heavy metal band, I naturally took interest, especially as there was no mention of Ozzy ...
‘Invisible Harry Gold’ humanizes Soviet spy without excusing damage done
by Morton I. Teicher
Sep 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
During World War II and the years that immediately preceded and followed it, the Soviet Union managed to persuade a few Americans, including some Jews who were Communist sympathizers, to serve as s...
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...