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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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<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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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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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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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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American donors gave to build Jewish homes in Arab parts of Jerusalem
by JTA
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
American donors gave $25.4 million in the past five years to build Jewish homes in Arab parts of Jerusalem, Bloomberg reported. Among the contributors are Ira Rennert, the founder of Renco Group I...
Israel keeps military option on table: Iran
by JTA
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel intends to keep a military option on the table in response to Iran’s nuclear program, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told his U.S. counterpart. “We clearly believe that no option should be remo...
Maccabiah Games reflections
by Angela Leibowicz
Community and Web Editor
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
When we left for the Maccabiah Games in Israel, I had no doubt this would be a once in a lifetime experience for my daughter, Emma, who would play tennis for the U.S. women’s team. It was not on my...
Covenant sale: two groups interested
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Just five weeks before a court-ordered auction, two parties remain interested in buying The Covenant at South Hills. The questions now are price and financing. Lifecare of the South Hills has bid $...
Rabbis’ lawyers blame woes on government mole
by Robert Wiener
New Jersey Jewish News
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEWARK — Attorneys for several rabbis facing money-laundering charges in the widespread New Jersey corruption case are insisting their clients are innocent victims of manipulation by Solomon Dwek, ...
Tisha B’Av
by Eric Lidji
Associate Editor
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The Ninth of Av — commemorating Jewish tragedies from modern, ancient and biblical times — often prompts visions of Jewish weakness, but the days leading up to the holiday this year brought two con...
EKC clears trees in Teen Village as camp life returns to normal
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
There was no way to know that a tree limb responsible for fatally injuring a 14-year-old girl at Emma Kaufmann Camp on Thursday, July 23, was about to break, a tree specialist has said. An arboris...
Humor writers discuss their craft in new book
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
For his first book, Mike Sacks got to talk to a lot of funny people. He talked about what made them funny. What they think is funny. And how you can be funny, too. Actually, he discussed with them...
Karmiel, Misgav bank on bike trail to attract tourists
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jail Trail this isn’t. For one thing, the climate is dryer, For another, the terrain is, hillier, rockier and just more unforgiving. And for a third, it winds through Jewish and Arab villages i...
Swine flu hits Jewish summer camp
by Toby Tabachnick
Staff Writer
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
On the morning of June 24, as dozens of Pittsburgh children eagerly waited in line to board the bus that would take them on their annual eight-hour journey to Utterson, Ontario, they found that, fo...