Business Briefs

HANDMAKER JEWISH SERVICES FOR THE AGING has hired NANCI LEVY as community outreach coordinator, The position is funded, in part, by a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation. Levy has been volunteering in the Tucson Jewish community for nearly 20 years. In her new position, she will focus on… Read more »

Mark Rubin

MARK RUBIN has re-established the Law Office of Mark Rubin in Tucson. His practice focuses on real estate, business, probate/fiduciary services and estate planning. Rubin also serves Pima Medical Institute — a Tucson-based private post-secondary school — as its general counsel. He blogs at MarkRubinWrites.com. The SOUTHERN ARIZONA HOME… Read more »

MARILYN PESKIN-KAUFMAN, owner of ADOBE TRANSPORTATION, was appointed to Gov. Doug Ducey’s new statewide marketing initiative, the Arizona Zanjeros. This group of business leaders who will focus on promoting Arizona as a prime place for business takes its name from the traditional zanjeros who control water flow through Arizona’s… Read more »

REBECCA CROW has been named director of education for CONGREGATION CHAVERIM. She is a past director of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s department of outreach, past president of the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation and Congregation Cha­verim, and has over 30 years experience as a social worker in… Read more »

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has hired DANIELLE LARCOM as director of Women’s Philanthropy. Larcom recently moved from Boston to Tucson with her husband and two sons. She was the marketing communications specialist at Temple Emanuel in Andover, Mass., where she also was active in the preschool and… Read more »

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HILLEL FOUNDATION has hired two new staff members to increase Israel engagement. ELYSE PINCUS, a UA alumna who grew up in Tucson, is the IACT coordinator for Israel engagement, which is a new position sponsored by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. The program originated… Read more »

TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY has hired several new teachers. JENNIFER GOULD will fill the new position of mathematics department chair and teach middle school mathematics. Gould received her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Education degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. She comes to THA from Fay School… Read more »

PHYLLIS LEVIN GOLD has been named director of the Northwest Division of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Gold served as executive director of Satori School for 23 years. Prior to that, she was director of undergraduate student advising for the psychology department at the University of Arizona. She… Read more »

KITTY WU has been promoted to fiscal and administrative coordinator at the JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Wu has been the JFSA bookkeeping and data management assistant for 16 years. CARRIE ADLER-WHEELER has been hired as database manager at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona. Most recently she worked… Read more »

ROBYN DAFOE has been named vice president for clinical services for JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Previously, she was the director for quality management and utilization management at Pantano Behavioral Health Services, where she worked for the past 10 years. Dafoe also has worked for Child… Read more »

ARIZONA JEWISH POST freelance writer CRAIG S. BAKER won an Arizona Press Club award in the community short-form writing category, for articles of 750 words or fewer. The second place award was for “TSO to host world-class Israeli violinist, rare instrument,” which appeared in the AJP’s Nov. 21, 2014… Read more »

THE TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER’S SUSAN FRANK (left) and JULIE ZORN have been chosen to participate in LEAP (Leadership Enrichment and Advancement Program), a Jewish Community Center Association continental leadership program. They are two of only 22 participants selected nationwide. Frank is the Tucson J’s director of health and… Read more »

BROADWAY IN TUCSON is launching the local edition of the National High School Music Theatre Awards. The Ben Vereen Awards Tucson Sing Off will be held Sunday, May 3 at the Fox Tucson Theatre. The 2015 Ben Vereen Awards Southwest Region Competition (with San Diego) will be held Sunday,… Read more »

MARTIN REICHGOTT, head swim coach at the TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, has been selected as the lead swim coach for the youth division of the U.S. delegation to the 13th Pan American Maccabi Games, to be held Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Santiago, Chile. Reichgott is in his third year… Read more »

CHAD WILLIAMS, chief operating officer at PEPPER VINER HOMES, has been honored as one of the exceptional 40 Under 40 building executives by Professional Builder Magazine.… 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 »

EAST LAWN PALMS MORTUARY AND CEMETERY, a Dignity Memorial provider, has named Michael Landy as family service counselor with special responsibility for Jewish funeral and cemetery needs. Landy, the former executive director of Congregation Anshei Israel in Tucson and Congregation Ohev Shalom in Maitland, Fla., has over 20 years… Read more »

Sharon Glassberg

SHARON GLASSBERG, vice president of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA, director of the Coalition of Jewish Education and principal of Tucson Hebrew High, was highlighted in Inside ICS, the newsletter of the Institute for Curriculum Services of the National Resource Center for Accurate Jewish Content in Schools, for… Read more »

INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES has appointed Daniel Stoltzfus as chief executive officer, effective Feb. 16. Stoltzfus succeeds longtime ICS CEO Bonnie Kampa, who is retiring at the end of 2014. Stoltzfus has more than 20 years of management experience in nonprofit organizations. He was most recently chief program officer at… Read more »

Jonathan Ben-Asher

JON BEN-ASHER, interim head of school at TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY since June, was hired by the board of trustees as the permanent head of school. THE TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER was selected to participate in a pilot program through the JCC Association aimed at identifying and retaining talented staff. … Read more »