Roz Rothstein and StandWithUs help others speak up for Israel Dismayed by the lack of organized support for Israelis in the face of the Second Intifada, three Californians refused to be bystanders. “We did not have a grand plan, we began to meet the immediate need of a voice to support the Israeli people,” says…
Pictured above: SWU Southwest Campus Director Sgula Dershowitz, left, with SWU ASU Emerson Fellow Mara Friedman. Since StandWithUs was founded 16 years ago, half a million college students have participated in SWU campus programs. The Israel education nonprofit has distributed tens of millions of copies of the user-friendly educational materials it developed. Hundreds of millions…
Pictured above: Anna Lentz as Anne Frank. Photo courtesy Goat Factory Media Entertainment. David Ira Goldstein returns to Arizona Theatre Company this month to direct “The Diary of Anne Frank.” David retired as artistic director last year after 26 years and is now artistic director emeritus of ATC. “The Diary of Anne Frank” is the…
The momentum from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements shed light on women’s issues such as safe and equal work environments and has forced change. But there is another movement happening where women are outpacing their male counterparts – philanthropy. According to research done through the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, which is part of the Indiana University…
Years ago a joke made the rounds of how a Jewish man spotted a friend reading an Arabic newspaper and exclaimed, “Moshe, have you lost your mind?” Moshe replied, “Well, I used to read the Jewish papers, but what did I find? Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation, Jews living in poverty….
Gail Baer was raised in Bethesda, MD, where her family belonged to a Reform congregation in Washington, D.C. She went through Jewish education, had a bat mitzvah and belonged to a youth group. Her mother was politically active and would bring Gail along to events when appropriate. Soviet Jewry was a big issue in the…
Like many people, Susan Farber’s primary association with Jewish National Fund was that they plant trees. It wasn’t until she participated in the Solidarity Mission to Israel in 2014 that she realized JNF does so much more. Susan had been to Israel in April of 2014, and in July she began seeing images of the…
Little did Katrina Shawver know that when she received a lead to interview Holocaust survivor Henry Zguda for a newspaper article, that she would become the only one entrusted with telling the story of his life. “In November 2002, I wrote my first column on Henry,” says Katrina. “His story fascinated me on several levels….
Pictured above: Ruth Dayan (who turned 101 on March 6) and Sharon Tal. Photo courtesy Baruch Raffic What started as a way to employ new immigrants to Israel in the early 1950s quickly became its own fashion brand. Maskit was conceived by Ruth Dayan (first wife of Gen. Moshe Dayan) and made contemporary luxury clothing…
Raquel Kahn has been dancing since she was a little girl. Whether taking ballet, tap and jazz classes during high school or being on the dance team in college, dance made Raquel the happiest; but she never dreamt she could make a career out of it, until now. She opened Fit 6-7-8 (a play…
