Ruthann Pozez Jewish Family & Children’s Services will honor Ruthann Pozez at its second annual Celebration of Caring complimentary breakfast event on Thursday, March 3. Pozez relocated from Topeka, Kan., to Tucson with her husband, Louis, co-founder of Payless Shoe Source, in 1983 and has been deeply involved with the Jewish… Read more »
Christians United for Israel at the University of Arizona will present a free lecture by Col. Ben Tzion Gruber of the Israel Defense Forces on Monday, Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Gruber, now in the IDF reserves, has served in the military for 30 years and is currently working… Read more »
Lynn Saul The Jewish History Museum’s Jewish Storytelling Festival will begin with Lynn Saul’s discussion of her book, “Learning to Say Satoraljaujhely,” on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. This collection of poetry, short stories, memoir, and family and contemporary photographs reflects 200 years of Hungarian Jewish history, from the early… Read more »
The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona is presenting a Yiddish festival of lectures and films this spring, coordinated by Gil Ribak, the Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies. The festival began earlier this month with a lecture on Yiddish theater. On Monday, Feb. 28… Read more »
The Tucson Secular Humanist Jewish Circle will hold an adult education/oneg Shabbat get-together on Saturday, Feb. 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Himmel Park Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave. The event will include a DVD presentation featuring Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Humanistic Judaism movement in… Read more »
Arbel Gelbart PJ Library and Congregation Or Chadash will host “Havdallah in a Bag!” on Sunday, Feb. 13, 3-4:30 p.m. at Or Chadash. Rabbi Thomas Louchheim, accompanied by Cantor Janece Cohen, will tell the story “Too Much of a Good Thing.” Children can make a Havdallah candle, spice bag and Kiddush… Read more »
(L-R) Cast members Norm Gosman(director), Dorrie Roman, Marilyn Forstot and Mike Finkelstein The Beth Shalom Temple Players will perform a musical program, “Thanks for the Memory,”on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, 1250 W. Continental Road in Green Valley. The production will be a nostalgic journey through the Golden… Read more »
Asher Susser Asher Susser, visiting scholar in modern Israel studies at the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, will present “Israel, Jordan and Palestine: One State, Two States or Three?” as part of the center’s Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series. The talk will be held Monday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at… Read more »
Kathy Unger, chair of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona board, makes calls on Super Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona exceeded its Super Sunday phone-a-thon goal of $150,000 on Jan. 30, raising $194,967 toward its 2011 Campaign, with $17,295 of this total going to the Local Emergency Assistance Fund. Over 150 volunteers turned out for the event at the Tucson Jewish Community Center,… Read more »
In a scene from the film "Inside Hana's Suitcase," Hana arrives at Auschwitz in October 1944. Hallonot, Hebrew for windows, is an annual Coalition for Jewish Education program providing windows into different aspects of the Jewish world. CJE has partnered with the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra to present this year’s Hallonot, “Voices and Views on the Holocaust,” which will… Read more »
Jonathan Rothschild Jonathan Rothschild’s earliest political memory is of JFK’s assassination in 1963. Following President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, Rothschild, then a student at Kenyon College in Ohio, became an intern for the National Student Lobby in Washington, D.C. But Rothschild, now 55, didn’t jump into the political fray himself… Read more »
Jewish Community Foundation honoree Mel Zuckerman (right) chats with 8-year-old David Jurkowitz. The Jurkowitz family gave the Zuckermans a gift in appreciation of their support of the PJ Library program. Looking on is David Alberts. [Martha Lochert] The Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona presented Mel and Enid Zuckerman with more than a plaque to thank them for their lifelong philanthropy at JCF’s Jan. 18 “As The Tree Grows” luncheon. “We made a decision to make important contributions, financial contributions, in your name,” Executive Director Carol… Read more »
Components of a rainwater harvesting system found at a foreclosed property in Tucson Looking for a green home has become easier, thanks to an upgrade to the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) that lets realtors mark options in eco-friendly categories such as lot design, water and energy efficiency, and indoor air quality. In Tucson, looking for some green features or evaluating the potential… Read more »
One of more than a dozen watergardens at Gail Barnhill’s home in Tucson For years, I’d longed for a gurgling watergarden pond brimming with blooming waterlilies, frolicking goldfish and darting dragon and damselflies but had no idea how to go about it. Fourteen years ago I finally had it with the “wishing and hoping” and bought a 300-gallon Rubbermaid stock tank, dug… Read more »
Sarah Berkowitz Ullman, 97, died Jan. 12, 2011. Born in Rochester, N.Y., Mrs. Ullman lived in Syracuse, N.Y., where she was a secretary for over 20 years at Temple Concord. She lived in Tucson for 25 years. Survivors include her daughter, Karen (Dr. Jeffrey) Katz of Tucson; four grandchildren… Read more »
Rose S. Laz, 87, died Jan. 13, in La Jolla, Calif . Mrs. Laz lived in Tucson for more than 40 years before moving to California in 1987. Survivors include her husband of 63 years, Harold; children, Janice of Camarillo, Calif., and Louis of Prides Crossing, Mass.; three grandchildren,… Read more »
ANA-REBECA (BECKY) MONROY, daughter of Martha and Gerardo Monroy, will celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Feb. 5, at Hillel. Marlene Burns will officiate. Becky is the granddaughter of Elaine and Steve Sellinger of Tucson, Annie and Norman Moore of Milford, Conn., and Concha and the late Guillermo… Read more »
GLORY BETH WOOD-ISENBERG, daughter of Drs. Rick Isenberg of Tucson and Eve Wood of Boulder, Colo., will celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Feb. 5, at Congregation Anshei Israel. She is the granddaughter of the late Glory Ann and Leonard Wood of Tucson, and the late Helene and… Read more »
Mark Rubin MARK RUBIN has joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild, P.C. His practice areas include business, real estate, probate and fiduciary law. Rubin, who has practiced law in Tucson since 1981, was a sole practitioner for 10 years. He also practiced with the firm of Slutes, Sakrison, Grant, Hill & Rubin,… Read more »
A son, BRACH WILLIAM BLANEY KOEN, was born Dec. 25, 2010 to Daniel and Lisa Blaney Koen of Chicago. Grandparents are Mike and Gerri Koen of Oracle, Ariz., and Howard and Marie Blaney of Boulder, Colo.… Read more »
