Mel Cohen Volunteering to lead Shabbat and holiday services for the residents of Handmaker began as a way for Mel Cohen to give back to the assisted living facility where his father was a resident, but 22 years later, Cohen continues to lead services as a way to connect to Jewish… Read more »
Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin made history in 1987 when she won an Academy Award for “Children of a Lesser God,” becoming the only deaf person to win an Oscar and, at 21, the youngest recipient of the Best Actress award. She owes much of that record-breaking achievement to her Jewish upbringing,… Read more »
A man walks in an empty tunnel of the closed subway central station
in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 21, 2015. (Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty
Images)
(JTA) — Growing up, trips to stay with my Jewish family in Brussels were a taste of freedom. In my native Israel, waves of Palestinian terrorist attacks kept me under constant maternal surveillance. Fear of regular bus bombings limited my excursions to biking distance. On the tranquil streets of… Read more »
Lillian Pinkus, AIPAC's first female president in a decade, speaking at the organization's conference in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Screenshot from YouTube)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Hear out Donald Trump. Ignore Donald Trump. There were two distinct approaches to the Trump moment this week at AIPAC’s annual conference here, and there were mutual warnings that one or the other side would get burned. The burn came fast, and it came to those… Read more »
AIPAC's annual Policy Conference, held March 20-22, 2016, sprawled
across Washington's downtown convention center, above, and its nearby
basketball arena. (JTA)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — I am trying to imagine a conversation between Donald Trump’s people and a delegation of Reform rabbis and lay leaders. Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the Reform movement’s man in Washington, told me that Trump’s people have agreed to a “staff-to-staff” meeting to discuss Jewish concerns about Trump’s… Read more »
The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and the University of Arizona School of Dance will present “An Evening with Yaniv Abraham & Guy Shomroni” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 31 at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, 1737 E. University Blvd. The event is free and open to the… Read more »
Jason Storch POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (JTA) — At many colleges and universities today, Jewish students are often pitted against students of color when it comes to Israel. In my three years at Vassar College, I have been told – by a Jewish student leader, no less – that supporting Israel is tantamount… Read more »
A girl wears a Purim mask in Jerusalem, March 15, 2006.
CHICAGO (JUF News via JTA) — Like so many other Jewish little girls on Purim, both my big sister and I would dress up for our annual Purim carnival as Queen Esther. The morning of the carnival, my mom would array us in regal dresses, bright red lipstick and a… Read more »
Enjoy healthful natural light and passive ventilation, plus privacy, in the bath with Energy Star-qualified solar powered fresh air skylights.
(BPT) – Have you ever picked a paint color you loved in the store, only to hate it when it’s on the walls at home? Or purchased throw pillows that you thought would be delightful on your neutral-hued couch, only to decide they look positively garish there? In both… Read more »
Donald Trump serving as grand marshal in the Salute to Israel Parade in New York, May 23, 2004. (Ron Antonelli/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
TEL AVIV (JTA) — He’s crude. He’s blunt. He’s inauthentic. He is not a man of peace. Left and right, religious and secular, Arab and Jew, Israelis don’t have many kind words for Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner. In interviews this week, several prominent Israelis described Trump as an… Read more »
WASHINGTON (JTA) – AIPAC’S smartphone app, downloadable for the expected 18,000 participants at its conference this week, has a nifty little feature for lobbying day, the conference finale on Tuesday when thousands of pro-Israel activists ascend to Capitol Hill. Activists comfortably seated in a Congress member’s office can use the app to call… Read more »
HANNAH GÓMEZ has joined the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Coalition for Jewish Education’s PJ Library team as coordinator of PJ Our Way. She will be working with PJ Our Way tweens ages 9-11. She also will coordinate outreach efforts for both PJ Library and PJ Our Way. Gómez… Read more »
PATRICIA C. BISCHOF’s weathered metal art is being shown at the Tucson Museum of Art gift shop and Toscana Studio and Gallery. Bischof received her bachelor’s degree from Prescott College in Tucson, with a minor in art.… Read more »
Aiden Justice Glesinger, son of April and Jeff Glesinger, will celebrate becoming a bar mitzvah on April 2 at Congregation Or Chadash. He is the grandson of Sue and Sonny Ross of Tucson and Jan and Jerry Glesinger of Papillion, Neb. Aiden is in the seventh grade at Tucson… Read more »
Art Dorfman, 91, died Feb. 23, 2016. A U.S. Marine infantry radar operator, Mr. Dorfman was a survivor of three South Pacific campaigns — Roi Namur, Saipan and Iwo Jima. He returned home to Bayonne, N.J., in 1945, and later moved to Roselle, N.J. Upon the birth of their… Read more »
Irving Rubinstein, 93, died Feb. 29, 2016. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Mr. Rubinstein moved to Tucson in the early 1940s. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he started a 40-year career in building, working for Tucson architect William Wilde. In the mid 1950s, he… Read more »
Sylvia Goldberg Daniels, 95, died Feb. 12, 2016. Born and raised in New York City, Mrs. Daniels was a first generation American. In 1945, she married Max Daniels and they moved to the Bronx, N.Y. After retiring from the men’s apparel industry in 1971, she moved to Forest Hills,… Read more »
Monique V. King, M.D., died Feb. 3, 2016. Born in Paris, France, in 1932, Dr. King survived the German occupation during World War II. In 1948, she came to the United States to study for a year on an American Field Service scholarship. She returned to the United States… Read more »
Jean Aberman, 86, died March 5, 2016. Born in Gary, Ind., Mrs. Aberman married Myles “Buddie” Aberman at the age of 21. They owned and operated the family business, Comay’s Jewelers, in Northwest Indiana for 30 years before moving to Tucson, where they opened Jean and Barb, a women’s… Read more »
Abraham Nathan Kaufman, 75, died March 2, 2016. Born in the Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Kaufman was raised in Fallsburg, N.Y. During his teenage years, he worked in the kitchen of the Concord Hotel in the Catskills. He served in the U.S. Army as a military policeman. In New York… Read more »
