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Metro Briefs May 17
Ruth Gruber , a legendary writer and photojournalist who recorded efforts by Holocaust survivors to immigrate to pre-independence Palestine, will appear at a screening of the film about her life, ...
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<i>Nicole Mezare</i>
Metro Briefs May 10
Nicole Mezare has joined Temple Sinai as the new director of adult programming. Mezare was born and raised in Toronto. She attended the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she learned how to des...
May 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Collaboration brings Beth El Congregation and JCC together
Beth El Congregation’s Early Childhood Program (BENS) has begun an unprecedented collaboration with the Early Childhood Department of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, South Hills ...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>David Krakauer </i>
2012 Jewish Music Festival opens with Krakauer, ‘Arye’
This year’s Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival will reach beyond its traditional emphasis on Yiddish and Eastern European musical roots, expanding its scope to include the exploration of multicultura...
May 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Tyler Carly, 15 of Fox Chapel, Lizzie Shackney, 17 of Mt. Lebanon, and Dianne Taxay, 17 of Fox Chapel, helped build a garden fence on April 22 at Construction Junction in Point Breeze. The teens were volunteering as part of the 2012 J-Serve Day, an service event for Jewish teens to volunteer in their communities. The fence will enclose a garden made from repurposed materials that will sit in front of Construction Junction s entrance. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill)</i>
Jewish teens volunteer in International Day of Giving
Around 250 teens came together from all across Pittsburgh to participate in J-Serve, an international day of Jewish youth service. “The idea is to foster this connection for teens to the community...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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A scene from "Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean"
Five short-subject pictures compete at Robinson film gala
JFilm will present five short-subject films next week at the Robinson Short Film Competition Gala Awards Evening, Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. at SouthSide Works Cinema. This year, the competing fi...
Apr 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
Tav HaYosher ethical seal uses carrot approach for acceptance
NEW YORK — Rare is the Jewish woman who is not praised as an Ayshet Chayil, a woman of valor, though too often it comes at her funeral, when she is not around to hear the rabbi intone from the Book...
May 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Menachem Rosensaft
Elan Steinberg defended Jewish rights
NEW YORK — Immediately after Elan Steinberg died early on April 6 at age 59, those who understood the tremendous historical role he played spoke about what he meant to them and to the Jewish commun...
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Daniel Brode</i>
Al-Qaeda’s rise in Syria
The recent wave of suicide bombings in Syria, along with Lebanon’s seizure of a weapons-laden cargo ship intended for Syrian rebels, underscores the infiltration of not only Sunni-jihadist ideolog...
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<i>Ed Koch</i>
In child abuse cases, law enforcement blesses the obstruction of justice
The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a number of years, we have read of sex acts involving C...
May 15, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at Sunday s Jerusalem Post Conference in New York. (Credit: Maxine Dovere)</i>
Keynote speaker Olmert doubles as persona non grata
NEW YORK — Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, told the crowd at Sunday’s Jerusalem Post Conference in New York City that he didn’t “want to walk into a minefield,” but that didn’t stop...
May 02, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israelis protest in support of Syrian people
TEL AVIV – Several hundred protestors in Tel Aviv showed their support for ordinary Syrians, demanding international intervention to put a stop to the Syrian government’s suppression of pro-democra...
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Day schools celebrate together
Eight hundred students from Community Day School, Hillel Academy and Yeshiva Schools waved rally towels in a group photo to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer during a holiday celebration, Thursday, May 10, at CDS. The Pittsburgh Jewish Day School Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh produced the towels. Lag B’Omer — the 33rd day of the counting the Omer — is traditionally celebrated with bonfires, weddings and parties. (Stephan Frazier photo)
Eight hundred students from Community Day School, Hillel Academy and Yeshiva Schools waved rally towels in a group photo to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer during a holiday celebration, Thursday, May 10, at CDS. The Pittsburgh Jewish Day School Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh produced the towels. Lag B’Omer — the 33rd day of the counting the Omer — is traditionally celebrated with bonfires, weddings and parties. (Stephan Frazier photo)
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An organization with a long history and growing popularity, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is nothing if not tenacious and has benefited from a series of government blunders. So said Carnegie Mel...
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<i>Ed Koch</i>
In child abuse cases, law enforcement blesses the obstruction of justice
The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a number of years, we have read of sex acts involving C...
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<i>Claire Engel standing in front of her now closed store, Engel’s Market, on Murray Avenue.</i>
Changes on Murray Avenue lead to market’s closure
For 46 years, nothing really changed at Engel’s Market on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill. The small storefront featuring an array of fresh fruits and vegetables hearkened back to a simpler time, a...
May 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Ruth Gruber and her Leica camera</i>
'Ahead of time'
The Hillel Jewish University Center and JFilm are screening "Ahead of Time," a film about the life of photojournalist Ruth Gruber. Gruber, who just turned 100 years old, will be in Pittsburgh to ...
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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