Rabbi Helen T. Cohn I recently read a long document about how to make a kitchen kosher for Passover. The work involved at that level of detail took my breath away. Transforming a kitchen to the highest level of observance is on one end of a continuum.The Jews who can’t be bothered to… Read more »
Ori Parnaby Dear Jewish Community Concierge, I just found out about you and I was wondering what is it exactly that you do? Sincerely, Jonathan Dear Jonathan, Great question! The Jewish Concierge is a brand new position created by Tucson’s Jewish Community Roundtable, a group of representatives from the Board of… Read more »
Pinchas Zohm Pinchas Zohav, a Jewish chaplain and counselor, will present “Relationships Thrive Within a We-ality, not a Me-ality” at Hadassah Southern Arizona’s luncheon on Sunday, May 3 at noon at the Lodge on the Desert, 306 N. Alvernon Way. Zohav is the author of “Creating an Extraordinary Relationship: The Art… Read more »
Stephen and Ruth Dickstein
Temple Emanu-El will honor congregants Ruth and Stephen Dickstein for their contributions to the synagogue and the Tucson community with a gala dinner on Saturday, May 16. The theme of the event is “Our World Rests on Three Pillars: Learning, Worship, and Acts of Lovingkindness.” Steve and Ruth met… Read more »
Steve, Matt (in chicken suit) and Brenda Landau at a “Run With the Roosters Kinney Road 5 Miler at Old Tucson”
When Steve Landau started Everyone Runs, Everyone Walks 10 years ago, he hoped to provide runners of all levels with a race that they could finish and feel positive about. “I went to other races and I would hear runners say that they weren’t good enough to finish in… Read more »
Eugene Yelchin Who knew seven years ago that the Tucson Festival of Books would rank as one of the top celebrations of authors and reading in the United States? Kudos to its founders, Bill and Brenda Viner, members of the Tucson Jewish community, and Bruce Beach, Frank Farias and John Humenik.… Read more »
When I write about books, they tend to be travel-related because — well — I’m a travel editor. But the richly depicted Chasidic world of Shulem Deen’s new “All Who Go Do Not Reurn” can seem so foreign — even to the granddaughter of shtetl-raised Yidden — the memoir… Read more »
Henry Winkler will speak at Jewish Family & Children's Services Celebration of Caring dinner on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.
Known to the world as “The Fonz,” the character he played for a decade on TV’s “Happy Days,” Henry Winkler fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming an actor. He won two Golden Globe Awards, received three Emmy nominations and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fonzie’s… Read more »
On March 4, the Weintraub Israel Center held a Bechayed BePurim (Together on Purim) party with Chabad on River and the Israel American Council. The event included dinner, a Megillah reading and Israeli music. Enjoying the festivities are Shira Barel (center) with, from left, Tamar, Amit, Ofri and Lee Benjamin. Purim celebrations from around our community … Read more »
(L-R) Ryan Armendariz, Naama Cohen (University of Arizona Hillel Israel Fellow), Edden Dembsky, Sivan Shahmoon and Alma Hernandez fundraise for Save A Child’s Heart on the UA Mall. Hillel supports Save a Child’s Heart The University of Arizona Hillel Foundation’s Wildcats for Israel club held a fundraiser for Save a Child’s Heart on the UA Mall on Feb. 10. Almost $250 was raised over four hours for SACH, an Israel-based nonprofit that provides urgently needed pediatric heart… Read more »
A new bilingual, nonfiction book for all ages by RONI CAPIN RIVERA-ASHFORD, “My Tata’s Remedies/Los Remedios de mi Tata,” has been published by Cinco Puntos Press. The book, which will debut at the Tucson Festival of Books (March 14-15), highlights the relationship between a young boy and his grandfather… Read more »
ERIC DEWITT HALL, son of Melissa and Garrett Hall, will celebrate becoming a bar mitzvah on March 14 at Congregation Or Chadash. He is the grandson of Martha and Herb Oberman of Dallas and Judy Hall of Scottsdale. Eric attends Orange Grove Middle School and plays in the band.… Read more »
EVALENA SHANKMAN PROUTY, daughter of Sam and David Prouty, will celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah on March 7 at Congregation Or Chadash. Evalena attends Tucson Hebrew Academy and enjoys ballet. For her mitzvah project, she is volunteering at Pima Paws for Life Animal Shelter.… Read more »
SARAH LANGERT, leadership development and PR director at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, was among 100 American Taglit Fellows who attended a four-day Taglit-Birthright Israel training in Chicago in August with experts in Jewish, Israel and experiential education. Fellows were selected from a pool of hundreds of applicants. Taglit-Birthright… Read more »
Leonard Flax, 88, died on Feb. 17, 2015. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Flax was a World War II veteran who served in Germany and Japan. He moved to Tucson in 1975. Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Carrie; children, Gary (Susan), Scott (David) and Stephanie;… Read more »
Joan Buchalter, 87, died Feb. 17, 2015. Mrs. Buchalter was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and attended the Pratt Institute of Art. She lived for 29 years in Rockville Centre, N.Y. and for the last 31 years in Tucson. Mrs. Buchalter volunteered… Read more »
Anat Cohen
Israeli-born clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen will bring her quartet to the Tucson Jewish Community Center sculpture garden on March 22 for an evening of jazz under the stars. The concert, hosted by UA Presents, starts at 7 p.m. and will showcase her new CD “Luminosa,” with its Brazilian… Read more »
Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook
Temple Emanu-El and St. Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church will join together to present a Spring Retreat Weekend: Exploring the Pilgrimage of Life, March 20-22, featuring the Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook. Kujawa-Holbrook is vice president of academic affairs, dean of the faculty and professor of practical theology and… Read more »
"Midnight Serenade, Pos 1" by Pokey Park
Fifteen new additions to the Tucson Jewish Community Center’s sculpture garden will be unveiled on Sunday, March 8, at a free reception from 1-3 p.m. The 6th Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition features the work of artists from Tucson and across the country. The opening will be preceeded by an… Read more »
Sarah Schultz, right, presents the Bryna Zehngut Mitzvot Award to Sarah Cassius at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Women’s Philanthropy Connections brunch. (Martha Lochert)
The advisory council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Women’s Philanthropy awarded Sarah Cassius its ninth annual Bryna Zehngut Mitzvot Award at the annual Connections brunch on Sunday, Feb. 22. The award recognizes an outstanding Jewish teenage girl. The council, which includes past Womenís Philanthropy chairs and campaign… Read more »
