RONALD S. WEINSTEIN, M.D., founding director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program, has been honored with the 2012 Technology Innovation Award by the University of Arizona. Weinstein was recognized for the many companies, institutes and scientific instruments that he has created and with which he has been involved. His recent innovations include changing the way health [...]
Read More »DEANNA EVENCHIK was named to the Jewish Federation of North America’s National Women’s Philanthropy Board. Evenchik recently served as the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s Women’s Philanthropy chair and the Woman’s Philanthropy Campaign chair. She is currently on the JFSA executive committee and serves as the 2012 Federation Community Campaign vice chair. [...]
Read More »DAVID A. RUBEN, M.D., MBA, a psychiatrist and pain management physician, is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona. His website is drrubenforussenate.com.
Read More »A book by MERYL HERSHEY BECK, “Stop Eating Your Heart Out: 21 Days to Freedom from Emotional Eating” will be published next month by Red Wheel/Weiser & Conari Press. Beck is a licensed clinical counselor in Tucson.
Read More »Rutgers University Press has published “Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants” by GIL RIBAK. Ribak is the Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona. More information and a 20 percent discount are available at http://judaic.arizona.edu/sites/judaic. arizona.edu/files/Ribak_author_flier.pdf.
Read More »Pima County Attorney BARBARA LAWALL will receive the Public Service Award at the American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Awards luncheon on March 14 in Phoenix. She is being honored for her contributions to the advancement of equality and democratic principles through her work in the nonprofit and public sectors. LaWall worked for the Pima [...]
Read More »REBEKKAH DIAMOND, a science teacher at Canyon Del Oro High School, was chosen to participate in the National Science Teachers Association yearlong fellowship program. One of three teachers chosen from Arizona, Diamond will receive an NSTA membership package, online mentoring, the opportunity to participate in web-based professional development seminars and financial support to attend NSTA’s [...]
Read More »ASHER SUSSER, former visiting scholar in modern Israel studies at the University of Arizona, has a new book, “Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative,” which will be published this month by Crown Books/Brandeis University Press. DAVID MONTEFIORE has posted several YouTube videos in honor of Chanukah, featuring selections from his Grammy-nominated album, “Hazzan Rishon [...]
Read More »Jeff Sambur, a retired firefighter, has published a book about his San Diego to Maine bicycle ride, “Destroying Demons on the Diagonal,” a lighthearted account that takes readers to the highest points in three states and 15 baseball stadiums, among other places. For more information, contact the author at jeffsambur @gmail.com.
Read More »BARBARA R. LEVY, ACFRE, has been named chair of the Ethics Committee of Association of Fundraising Professionals, which represents 30,000 individuals around the world. Levy currently serves as president of the Tucson Symphony Society Board of Trustees. She is principal in her firm, Organization & Fundraising Counsel, and has been in the fundraising profession for [...]
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