Yearly Archives 2013

Cantor Lawrence Gustav Barr, 90, died Feb. 11, 2013. Cantor Barr celebrated religious services and counseled residents at Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging for the past 12 years. Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Sonia Barr; children, Stefani (Carl) Litvak of Tucson, and Alan (Donita) Barr of… Read more »

Clara Davidson, 93, died Feb. 11, 2013. In 1948, Mrs. Davidson moved from New York to Tucson. She worked as an administrative assistant for the Tucson Unified School District for 20 years. After retirement, she volunteered at the Arthritis Foundation, the Cancer Society Thrift Shop, and the Association for… Read more »

Annette Freed, 88, died Jan. 15, 2013. Born in Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Freed lived on Long Island, N.Y., where she worked as a knitting instructor and volunteered for ORT, before moving in 1964 to Tucson, where she managed Cele Peterson’s and owned the Monterey Beauty Salon. Survivors include her… Read more »

Bess Falkow, 94, died Jan. 15, 2013. Born in Albany, N.Y., Mrs. Falkow met her husband, Maurice, in elementary school. Following World War II, they moved to Tucson. She was a real estate agent and volunteered at Congregation Anshei Israel. Mrs. Falkow was preceded in death by her husband… Read more »

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Southern Jewish Life) — “Are you still a bigot?” Every year for the rest of his life, students studying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” would call Rabbi Milton Grafman, knowing little of the situation in 1963 Birmingham, and pose that question. His… Read more »

British Prime Minister Margaret thatcher visiting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem, May 25, 1986. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90.JTA)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — History will remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for relentlessly facing down communism and helping to turn back more than three decades of socialist advance in her country. But it was Thatcher’s embrace of British Jews and insistent promotion of Jews in her Conservative Party… Read more »

Lori Laska Sumberg

LARRY DALKOFF won third place in the 60-70 age category in a bodybuilding competition held at Utterback Middle School in March 16. The competition was sponsored by the Amateur Bodybuilding Association. Singer/songwriter and cantorial soloist LORI LASKA SUMBERG will perform songs from her new album, “Tales of the Road,”… Read more »

Illustration from the new book "Tiny Dynamo," which promotes the most important and interesting innovations to emerge from Israel. (Courtesy Megan Flood)

NEW YORK (JTA) — While a great deal of international and media focus has been placed on Israel’s military conflicts, the country quietly has become an energetic, ambitious incubator of entrepreneurialism and invention. What follows is a timeline chronicling some of the most important and interesting innovations produced by Israelis during… Read more »

Klansmen exiting the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis, Tenn., moments before their rally, March 30, 2013. (Blake Billings)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (JTA) — Cantor Ricky Kampf descends from the bimah, adjusts his prayer shawl and strides up the aisle, cutting through the cavernous sanctuary to greet the familiar out-of-towner. “Y’all here for the shindig?” Kampf says at the Baron Hirsch Synagogue here as he grasps the hand of… Read more »

Guy Gelbart

During the recent Passover holiday, we celebrated the ending of our slavery and becoming a free people. After fleeing Egypt, we were liberated but not yet free. Even after receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, we were not yet free. It took more than 40 years, a full generation,… Read more »

JTA recently reported on a new alliance between Jewish leaders and domestic gas and oil companies (see https://azjewishpost.com/?p=21879). Called the Council for a Secure America, the alliance is based on a “common interest” between American Jews and domestic energy companies to “increase domestic oil and gas production and to… Read more »

One act, more than any other, is indispensible from the Passover story: If God had not intervened, we would still be slaves. There would have been no Exodus, no Sinai, no bright future for the Jewish people. For the sake of a future nation, God intervened to save 600,000… Read more »

Bicycle rental vending machine and bikes in Tel Aviv. (Sheila Wilensky/AJP)

A short ride on a luxury wooden bicycle can take much longer than expected in south Tel Aviv. The roads are fine, Maxime van Gelder says, “but people keep asking you to stop and take their picture with the bike.” Van Gelder, the 22-year-old marketing director for the 2-year-old… Read more »

A Yad Sarah volunteer prepares a wheelchair to be loaned to a client.

AJP Associate Editor Sheila Wilensky was in Israel in January with the American Jewish Press Association. From inhalers and humidifiers to walkers and wheelchairs, Israel’s Yad Sarah provides homecare services to thousands of people — all for free. Founded in 1976 in one room, Yad Sarah now has 100… Read more »

Rabbi Richard Address

Rabbi Richard F. Address, author of “Seekers of Meaning: Baby Boomers, Judaism, and the Pursuit of Healthy Aging,” will bring his quest to Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging on Tuesday, April 23. In a free public lecture at 7 p.m., Address — a baby boomer himself — will… Read more »

Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging will present Denise Camille Frye, the author of “Into the Fog,” for a talk and book-signing at “Mind Games 2” on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. The event will serve as a virtual groundbreaking ceremony for the Paul and Lydia Kalmanovitz Elder-Care… Read more »

The University of Arizona Hillel Foundation will host a registration drive for potential bone marrow or stem cell donors on Wednesday, April 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on the UA Mall. The drive is being held on behalf of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, a nonprofit… Read more »

Dan Siegel, M.D.

Dan Siegel, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, exemplifies the mission of the Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar on Humanism in Medicine. Siegel is the author of “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation,” an in-depth exploration of the power of the mind to integrate… Read more »

David Zinke as Otto Frank and Gabriella De Brequet as Anne Frank in Pima Community College Theatre Arts’ production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” (Carol Carder)

Pima Community College Theatre Arts will stage “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, April 11-21. In 1943 Holland, 13-year-old Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding to escape deportation to concentration camps by the Nazis. During two years in hiding in a… Read more »

Yafit Josephson in 'New Eyes'

Back by popular demand, the critically acclaimed one-woman show “New Eyes” will return to Tucson for a single performance on Monday, April 22. “New Eyes” tells the story of Yafit Josephson, a young woman living in Israel who joins the army as part of her mandatory service to her… Read more »