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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 | 2 2 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...
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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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<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...
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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...
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Jewish actor’s whirlwind life sets down in Pittsburgh
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Actor and singer Mandy Patinkin may be decades away from his most famous projects — namely, “The Princess Bride,” and “Yentl,” and “Evita” on Broadway — but he’s busier than ever. When he called T...
Cost, coverage remain hurdles to standard genetic testing
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
(Third in a four-part series on genetic screening for Jews) When Andi Minkoff, a Phoenix philanthropist, started raising money to spread the word in her community about the importance of Jewish ...
Congregation moves its cemetery listings online
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
(This is an updated version of the original story.) Beth Hamedrash-Hagodol Beth Jacob congregation operates a cemetery in McKees Rocks that’s over 100 years old and is crammed with more than 4,0...
Schools, worship places hosting wireless network antennae
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Sep 29, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A wireless Internet company called Clearwire is moving into Pittsburgh today — service in some areas began at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 30 — but you might not know it unless you look up. More tha...
Penn State doesn’t cancel classes for High Holy Days, irking students
by Ashley Gold
Chronicle Correspondent
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
UNIVERSITY PARK — Jewish students in New York have a few advantages over Jewish students from Pennsylvania, such as closer proximity to quality delis and a greater population of Jewish neighborhood...
Indict Ahmadinejad petition gains momentum following U.N. speech
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Sep 29, 2010 | 12 12 comments | 117 117 recommendations | email to a friend
A petition calling on the United Nations to indict Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with crimes against humanity is gaining momentum. Christians United For Israel, a Christian Zionist organiza...
Jewish feminists attribute activism to their faith — book
by Morton I. Teicher
For the Chronicle
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The author of “Jewish Feminists,” Dina Pinsky, studied for her doctorate, simultaneously worked for a certificate in women’s studies and learned that many Jewish feminists attributed their being fe...
Marchers protest Mea Shearim’s gender separation
by JTA
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM -- Protesters marched in Mea Shearim a day after Israel's Supreme Court ruled that men and women cannot be segregated on its main street. Carrying signs reading "Jerusalem is not Tehran"...
Pitching peace as well as Israel
by Ron Kampeas
JTA
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON -- Two months ago the Israel Project was wondering, in a Capitol Hill briefing, “Is the Palestinian Authority preparing its people for peace?” The answer was a pretty unequivocal “no.” ...
Israeli Jews back non-Orthodox conversions, poll finds
by JTA
Sep 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK -- Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews believe that non-Orthodox converts to Judaism should be considered Jewish, a new Israeli government survey reveals. The survey released Monday, which w...