SARA PRESLER: A PASSION FOR SERVICE At 33 Sara Presler has held more high-level jobs than most people do in a lifetime. She’s been a public defender specializing in children’s and family issues. She recently finished serving two terms as mayor of Flagstaff. She’s also practiced law privately, and last December she was chosen to…
Rabbi Reuven Mann: Young Israel of Phoenix The establishment of the modern state of Israel must be ranked as one of the greatest miracles in Jewish and world history. First it puts to rest the noxious Christian claim that our exile signified G-d’s rejection of the Jewish people and the abrogation of His Covenant with…
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, four new holidays have been added to the Jewish calendar: Yom HaShoah, (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Memorial Day), Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day), and Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). In Israel these holidays are observed as national holidays. The first three holidays, which are…
Arté Resort Retirement definitely isn’t your bubbe’s retirement home, but maybe it should be. This 3-year-old independent and assisted-living facility in Scottsdale boasts on its website, “Retirement that lives like a resort,” and from the moment you step into the front lobby, it’s easy to understand why. “It looks like a cruise ship, with Art…
Dementia – an acute loss of cognitive ability – can be marked by memory loss, decreased attention span and disorientation that occurs in disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. According to Prof. Jiska Cohen-Mansfield of Tel Aviv University’s Herczeg Institute on Aging and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, dementia sufferers are often prescribed psychotropic drugs to mitigate…
The most common response I get when talking about surf in Israel is, “Wait – there’s surf in Israel?” Not only does Israel boast some amazing surf breaks along the coast from Gaza to Lebanon, but it also has a homegrown surf culture that has produced world-class board builders and competitive surfers alike. The estimated…
You can hear the pride in Dr. Sarette Zecharia’s voice when she talks about the new facility for Shalom Montessori located near Hayden and McCormick in Scottsdale. “This recent move has been incredible for us. We’re more centrally located and we’ve gone from a maximum capacity of 30 to 250.” And it’s not just the…
Extended Jewish families were common on the Southwestern frontier. Pioneer Jews wanted to retain their Yiddishkeit, so they brought along their families and married cousins and for the most part stayed Jewish keeping the story of Mishpoche alive. Most came for the same reasons we pack up and move today – opportunity and, for some,…
At the end of last year, CNN Money asked more than 30 money managers and investment strategists where they believed the S&P 500 would finish at the end of 2013. The group responded that they realistically anticipated a market value of 1,490 by year end. This estimate would be a gain of just 4.5% over…
It’s my worst nightmare. On the way home from school today, my 12-year-old son, Levi, asked me the standard question I usually pose to him. “So mom, what did you do that was interesting and exciting today?” “Not much,” I replied. It was a slow day. I ran errands, sent out a few query letters…
