Max Goldschmid It’s cool. It’s funky. And, if you ask local musician, producer and owner of 11:11 Studios, Mike Levy, its rhythm can be visualized something “like an egg rolling” — slightly off-kilter, yet quasi-sober — “steady, but swinging,” he calls it. We’re talking about jazz and, later this month, Tucson… Read more »
James Deem Tucson author James M. Deem will speak at Hadassah Southern Arizona’s luncheon on Sunday, Jan. 11. Deem, the author of over two dozen books for adults and young adults, will present “Albertine’s Doll: A Holocaust Story from Belgium.” This is one of the stories from his upcoming book, “The… Read more »
The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona is getting ready for its annual Campaign Super Sunday phone-a-thon and Mitzvah Day on Sunday, Jan. 25, at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. From 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., volunteers can make calls soliciting tax-deductible gifts to the Federation that support Jewish life… Read more »
A sex trafficking awareness vigil will be held on the University of Arizona Mall on Monday, Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m. Sex trafficking survivor Beth Jacobs and Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will speak and take part in a candlelighting ceremony. Jacobs is the founder of Willow Way, a local organization… Read more »
Rabbi Benji Levene The 2014 Cohon Memorial Foundation Awards will be presented at Temple Emanu-El at Shabbat services on Friday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Rabbis Baruch J. Cohon and Samuel M. Cohon will present the awards to this year’s winners, Jonathan Ornstein and Rabbi Benji Levene. Both recipients are being honored… Read more »
Congregation Or Chadash will hold a Texas Hold’em poker tournament, plus a dinner and casino night, on Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Tucson Scottish Rite Cathedral, 160 S. Scott Ave. The tournament is limited to 150 players on a first-come, first-served basis. Walk-ins are welcome, unless sold out. The… Read more »
The University of Arizona Hillel Foundation will hold its annual alumni basketball event, a pre-game dinner before the UA vs Oregon basketball game, on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 5:45 p.m. at the Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. 2nd St. The event will include dinner, door prizes, a visit with UA… Read more »
IRIS SAPOVITS was named Hadassah Southern Arizona’s Woman of the Year. She has served as Hadassah Southern Arizona president, co-president and vice president of fundraising as well as on the Desert Mountain Region Board. She is also active with the Green Valley White Elephant thrift store, the Green Valley… Read more »
Sharon Glassberg SHARON GLASSBERG, vice president of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA, director of the Coalition of Jewish Education and principal of Tucson Hebrew High, was highlighted in Inside ICS, the newsletter of the Institute for Curriculum Services of the National Resource Center for Accurate Jewish Content in Schools, for… Read more »
ROXANNE ABIGAIL FRANKENBERG, daughter of Viviana and Nathan Frankenberg, will celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah at Congregation Bet Shalom on Saturday, Jan. 17. Roxanne is the grandaughter of Teresa Frankenberg of East Meadows, N.Y. and Arnoldo Waysburt of Asuncion, Paraguay. Roxanne is an honor student at Coronado K-8, where… Read more »
SAMANTHA DEUTSCH, daughter of Jill and Michael Deutsch, will celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel of Tempe on Saturday, Jan. 17. She is the grandaughter of Susan and Michael Cohen of Sun Lakes, Ariz., and Judy and Larry Deutsch of St. Louis, and the great- grandaughter of… Read more »
Back row (L-R): Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon, Bonnie Golden (Temple president), Ken Silverman, Moira Silverman, Amanda Caldwell, Jason Feld, Lauren Katz, Jonathan Katz and Marcia Katz. Front row: JCTEY-NFTY members Emiliano Miller, Levi Rubin, Rachel Levy, Lucy Heller (Photo: Steve Shawl) The Rebecca Katz Family Library and Youth Center at Temple Emanu-El was dedicated on Dec.16 in memory of Rebecca Lynne Katz. The new facility includes a collection of Jewish children’s books, games, space for video and digital technology and comfortable furnishings. The library will also serve as a lounge… Read more »
The Strauss ECE Dancing Dreidels perform at Temple Emanu-El’s “Greatest Hanukkah on Earth! XVI” on Sunday, Dec. 14. About 550 people attended the event.
Shalom Tucson will host a free bagel brunch for newcomers and anyone interested in the Tucson Jewish community on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Representatives from synagogues, agencies and organizations will be on hand, along with the Jewish community concierge, Ori Parnaby.… Read more »
Mary Kate Callahan (front) and her teammates (L-R): Abigail Will, Laura Haley, Jessica Honea, Kimberly Nicolai, Molly Supple and Halli Schmittenberg celebrate the end of a successful season for the University of Arizona Women’s triathlon team. (Photo: Jimmy Song Photography) The Tucson Jewish Community Center will present “Consider Yourself Challenged,” a family friendly fundraiser on Sunday, Feb. 8 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The University of Arizona TriCats will be on hand to conduct children’s activities and discuss equipment and training required to participate in a triathlon. Mary Kate… Read more »
Tracy Salkowitz Community foundations are the coolest thing ever … well, you would think so, too, if you had the greatest job in the world. The first community foundation was created in Cleveland in 1914 by Frederick Goff, a local banker, who understood the need for a centralized philanthropic vehicle to… Read more »
The JCC building in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park is one of two JCC buildings in the Detroit area; the other is in West Bloomfield. (Aaron Tobin) (JTA) — Amid persistent budget deficits, the Jewish community center building in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park may close this spring. The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit announced Monday that a committee is going to recommend that the building shut down in light of annual losses of $1… Read more »
The University of Arizona Poetry Center will present a Jan. 8 memorial reading from 7 to 8 p.m., to witness, remember, and commemorate the 4th anniversary of Jan. 8, 2011, when a gunman killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, outside a Tucson Safeway store. In… Read more »
George Miller
George Miller, mayor of Tucson from 1991 to 1999, died Dec. 25 at the age of 92. Born in Detroit, Miller was a Tucsonan since 1939 and briefly attended Tucson High School. He served as a U.S. Marine in World War II, was wounded in the Battle of Saipan… Read more »
Celebrated French Jewish cartoonist Georges Wolinski was killed in the attack on the Paris headquarters of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, 2015. (Wikipedia Commons) (JTA) — An attack on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical magazine has left at least 12 people dead, including the Jewish caricaturist Georges Wolinski. Two of the reported fatalities in Wednesday’s attack were police officers, according to the French daily newspaper Le Monde. Later reports said that… Read more »
