ADAM LEHRMAN, a.k.a. Tucson Foodie (www.tucsonfoodie.com), has established two new online businesses. Quizine.com gives dining deals to participants who relate feedback to restaurateurs in real time via their smart phones. Soapbox.sm is a marketing company based on the use of social media to promote businesses. ORI PARNABY and HILARY… Read more »
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has named EILEEN WARSHAW, executive director of the Jewish History Museum, as the recipient of the 2013 Margie Fenton Award. The award recognizes an individual or group who has made a significant impact on the community with… Read more »
THE RABBI SAMUEL S. AND A. IRMA COHON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION will present the Cohon Award for 2013 to two winners: Harriet Rossetto, founder and CEO of Beit T’Shvuah, the House of Return in Los Angeles, which uses Jewish spirituality, 12-step recovery and psychotherapy to rescue people from addiction; and… Read more »
CONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL has received the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s Centennial Schechter Commendation for the creation of mobile applications for Apple and Android devices that put synagogue communications, programs and events, including Shabbat and holiday information, at users’ fingertips. Congregant Gary Windham created the apps in 2012 after… Read more »
LORI RIEGEL has rejoined the ARIZONA JEWISH POST as advertising manager. She was a salesperson at the AJP from 2006 to 2008, then served as religious school director at Temple Emanu-El and religious and cultural education coordinator at Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging, where she currently runs the… Read more »
THE PETER AND PATRICIA LIKINS FAMILY, JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA and ARIZONA CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES at the University of Arizona have awarded the 2012-13 John Likins Memorial Scholarship to MARIA FERNANDA VELASCO. The scholarship supports an incoming freshman from a Tucson area high school, majoring in any… Read more »
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has named MICHAEL E. BLIMES vice president for philanthropy. Blimes was most recently vice president for philanthropy at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He founded and served for nearly three decades as chairman of the MIDAS Consulting Group, Inc., a full-service national… Read more »
TANA JONES, director of development at the TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, has been honored with a 40 Under 40 award by the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Jones joined the JCC in March 2011. After receiving a scholarship from the local chapter of the… Read more »
The TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is one of five arts groups in the state of Arizona to receive the full amount of state grant money available for the 2014 fiscal year. The Arizona Commission on the Arts made the awards based on fiscal ingenuity, broad participation from the state’s residents… Read more »
GERALD LANKIN has been named Tucson office director at Helix House Internet Marketing Agency. Prior to joining Helix House, he was president of Baja Nueva Design and Decorating Studio in San Felipe, Mexico. He has more than 25 years of experience in the securities and stock exchange industry, including… Read more »
JEFF BRIDGE, immediate past president of Congregation Bet Shalom, and his long-time business partner, Chef James Pastore, are the new owners of IT’S GREEK TO ME restaurant, located in Catalina, Ariz. Bridge is also starting his 30th year of employment at Raytheon in Tucson. ITZIK BECHER, founder of… Read more »
LEAH RICHTER, office manager of the ARIZONA JEWISH POST, is retiring after 36 years. She started with the newspaper, then known as the Arizona Post, under the editorship of Martha K. Rothman. The Tucson Pima Arts Council presented its 2013 Lumies Arts & Business Awards June… Read more »
PAMELA HEIMAN DUBIN, M.D., has been named care manager for SELECT Care Managers, a service of JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. Previously, Dubin practiced medicine for one and a half years and was a science officer with Weil Lifestyles for seven years. She is a volunteer… Read more »
GILA SILVERMAN won a first place award from the Arizona Press Club for non-metro social issues reporting for her article in the Dec. 28, 2012 edition of the ARIZONA JEWISH POST, “Be kind: Ben’s Bells replace dreidel for Winterhaven Festival of Lights.” The judge wrote, “This easily could have… Read more »
ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA reporters Mark Duggan and Fernanda Echavarri have won 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, along with former AZPM employees Steve Shadley and Robert Rappaport. Two feature stories are in the running for the national Murrows. AZPM’s interim news director,… Read more »
PATTIE MARTIN, M.Ed., has been named director of older adult services at JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN’S SERVICES. She previously directed one of those services at JFCS, Select Care Managers.… Read more »
THE 2013 SCHORR FAMILY AWARD will be presented to U.S. Rep. Ron Barber “for his distinguished contribution in furthering public understanding of mental illness.” The free public event will be held April 4 at 3 p.m. at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. Neal Cash, president and… Read more »
TEMPLE EMANU-EL is one of eight Reform congregations nationwide selected to participate in the Union for Reform Judaism Emerging Young Adult Initiatives Community of Practice, a networking group aimed at discovering new ways to engage young adults in congregational life.… Read more »
THE INVISIBLE THEATRE will award its 2013 “Goldie Award” to stage and screen star Valarie Pettiford. The award, which honors a guest artist, was established in 1988 in tribute to Goldie Klein, mother of Invisible Theater’s artistic director, Susan Claassen. Pettiford will perform a concert for Invisible Theatre, “Celebration!”… Read more »
Lee Olitzky THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has posted the preliminary findings from its Jewish Community Planning Survey at www.jewishtucson.org/planning. The informational study was designed to inform the work of the strategic planning steering committee and task forces; it is not a demographic study and does not represent a statistically… Read more »
