ORI GREEN (left) and ORAIA REID have joined the JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Green, a legacy officer for the JCF, has lived in Tucson since the 1980s. For the past three years, she served as Tucson’s Jewish community concierge. Reid, a JCF marketing and legacy officer, moved to Tucson from New York City, where she was the founding executive director of a nonprofit called RightRides for Women’s Safety from 2004-2012. She returned to college in 2012 and graduated from Columbia University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in urban studies.
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES will receive a grant from The Jewish Federations of North America through its Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor Care. When combined with matching funds, the award will enable $94,227 in new programming for survivors, including a Russian-speaking behavioral health care practitioner for survivors from the former Soviet Union.
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THE TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER has appointed Josh Shenker as director of children, youth and camping services. Shenker graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Judaic studies and nonprofit management. He was the camp director at the Weinstein Jewish Community Center in Richmond, Virginia, for four years.