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Or Chadash salutes JFSA’s Stuart Mellan- In Focus

Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona President and CEO Stuart Mellan, left, and Rabbi Thomas Louchheim with the September 1995 Arizona Jewish Posts announcing their respective endeavors, at Congregation Or Chadash’s Feb. 21 dinner honoring Mellan.

Eighty people attended Congregation Or Chadash’s “Celebrating 25 Years of Gratitude,” a dinner honoring Stuart Mellan, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, on Friday, Feb. 21. Mellan will retire at the end of May. Following the dinner, held at Harvey and Deanna Evenchik Center for Jewish Philanthropy, participants headed to Or Chadash for a Shabbat service, where Mellan delivered the sermon.