The Center for Jewish Resilience (CJR) at Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona will host its inaugural Southwest Institute on Sunday, October 26, which seeks to bring together community stakeholders for educational programming about Jewish peoplehood, contemporary antisemitism, and pushing back against this and other forms of hatred. For its… Read more »
From left, Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona Deputy Community Security Director Paul Patterson, JPSA Director for Public Affairs Carina Bien-Willner, and lay leader Kent Blumenthal were on Capitol Hill June 25-26 to advocate for Jewish community security funding. (Courtesy JPSA) Carina Bien-Willner, Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona director for public affairs at the Center for Jewish Resilience; Paul Patterson, JPSA deputy community security director; and Kent Blumenthal, a member of the CJR steering committee, joined almost 400 Jewish leaders in Washington, D.C., last month to lobby lawmakers for increased… Read more »
The Loft Cinema will show the film ‘October 8’ on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. “‘October 8’ offers a look at the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses, social media and in the streets of America beginning the day after the October 7th attack on Israel… Read more »
