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(L-R) Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, Solar Celebration Co-Chair Scott Arden, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon, Temple Emanu-El President John Judin and Solar Project Coordinator Steve Tofel at Temple Emanu-El’s Earth Day Solar Celebration April 22.

Incentives, Jewish values push Temple Emanu-El to go solar

Posted under Local on May 17th, 2012. 1 Comment »

When Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon and Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild flipped the switch on Temple Emanu-El’s solar energy array during its Earth Day celebration on April 22, it was the culmination of a long process. “It started last summer,” said Cohon, spurred by “a lot more incentives from the government and the power company to [...]

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Craft devotee bringing Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework to Tucson

Posted under Home & Garden, Local on May 17th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

Photographs can’t do justice to the exquisite stitchery on the table linens, wall hangings and other objects Tucsonan Barbara Esmond has created over the years as a member of The Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework. The group is named for the fruit that is one of the “seven species” in the Bible. The pomegranate, said [...]

Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman with his wife, Mushkie, and daughters Devora (right) and Chana

Oro Valley to get Chabad rabbi and rebbetzin

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Chabad of Tucson has appointed Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman to be the first full-time rabbi serving the spiritual, religious and educational needs of Oro Valley Jews. “This is a response to the growing Jewish population in the Northwest,” says Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, regional director of Chabad of Tucson. Zimmerman and his wife, Mushkie, will establish and [...]

Edna Feldman San Miguel

Tucson artist discovering Jewish heritage

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Edna Feldman San Miguel is a sixth generation Tucsonan who has spent more than two decades discovering her Jewish ancestry. In February, the artist and illustrator led a tour for visiting Israeli artists of the San Xavier Mission, where she’d worked as a conservationist, which was followed later that day by a Jewish Federation of [...]

Jewish History Museum archiving treasures

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The Jewish History Museum has begun cataloging and archiving artifacts in its permanent collection, thanks to partial funding from the Arizona Humanities Council. Photographs of many of the artifacts may be viewed on the museumís website, jewishhistorymuseum.org (click on the artifacts tab). Among the artifacts are over 40,000 paper items, including articles, photographs, documents and [...]

Israel Center seeks hosts for counselors, scouts

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The Weintraub Israel Center is seeking host families for two Israelis who will serve as camp counselors at the Tucson Jewish Community Center this summer. Daniel Saban, 21, completed his military service with the Israeli Air Force. He is fluent in English and Spanish, enjoys horseback riding, jazz dance and travel, and has served as [...]

Tucsonan Bill Kugelman and teens from the Western region of the United States lead the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland on April 19. (Courtesy CJE)

Guiding teens, Tucsonan finds joy on March of the Living trip

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Holocaust survivor Bill Kugelman has been to Birkenau before, once on a previous March of the Living trip in 2006, and as a prisoner of the Nazis. From 1939 to 1945, Kugelman, 88, spent three and a half years in concentration camps, including Birkenau, and two and a half years in the Jewish ghettos of [...]

In South Florida district, a race with familiar faces — but not Allen West

Posted under National, News on May 15th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Democrats and Republicans are readying for a potentially tough fight in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District in coastal Palm Beach and Broward counties — a potential bellwether race that could end up pitting two prominent local Jewish politicians against one another. Its national import notwithstanding, it’s also a race homey enough that two [...]

Israel shows off its homeland security technologies to international visitors

Posted under Israel, News on May 15th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s security technologies were on display as the country hosted two separate international contingents. An Interpol European Regional Conference brought 110 senior law enforcement officers from 49 countries to Tel Aviv, while a homeland security conference drew 37 mayors from two dozen worldwide cities to sites throughout Israel last week. “Israel has [...]

Sen. Richard Lugar, right, accompanies actor George Clooney with Sen. John Kerry for Clooney's testimonial on Sudan issues, in washington, D.C., March 14, 2012. Lugar's defeat in a primary election has pro-Israel activists worried about bipartisanship in Congress. (Medill DC via Creative Commons)

Lugar’s defeat raises specter of more partisanship on foreign policy

Posted under National, News on May 15th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Richard Lugar was never considered to be one of Israel’s leading advocates on Capitol Hill. The veteran Republican senator from Indiana, who suffered a primary defeat last week after 35 years in office, is famously his own man. Lugar, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, consistently backed defense assistance for [...]