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Lilach Mazor Power: Growing the Giving Tree
Photo: Lilach Mazor Power inspects a plant in one of the many grow rooms at her dispensary. The Giving Tree…
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Leib Bolel: In the business of uniting Israel and Arizona
Leib Bolel is the president and CEO of the Arizona Israel Technology Alliance, where he oversees the facilitation of growth…
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Love Knots: Jeweler Freida Rothman links her past with her future
Freida Rothman is a nationally known jewelry designer whose jewelry is sold across the country at Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s…
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Detecting, Alerting, Preventing
A team of students from the Technion and the University of Missouri won second place at MedHacks – a hackathon for developing medical technologies hosted by Johns Hopkins University. They were awarded for developing the Scan&Sound application, which detects strokes at early stages and alerts the victims. MedHacks is the largest hackathon in the U.S….
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OU Impact Accelerator Opens Applications for Third Cohort
The Orthodox Union (OU), the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, has launched the application process for the third cohort of its Impact Accelerator program to rapidly identify and invest in ventures addressing current and future Jewish communal interests. The program runs over the course of 12 months and…
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Scottsdale International Film Festival Goes Virtual for its 20th Anniversary
The Scottsdale International Film Festival was getting ready to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year, and Amy Ettinger, the executive director and founder, was excited due to the positive feedback she received after the 2019 festival. They were set to put on a festival with 80-100 films over the course of 10 days. During the…
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Changes at the Martin Pear JCC
Photo: From left, Kim Subrin, Leah Zigmond and Audrey Edwards. Martin Pear JCC on the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus (“The J”) announces the arrival of Audrey Edwards into the newly created role of chief experience officer. Audrey comes to The J having served at the Boston JCC for more than two decades. In her…
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Rabbi Bachman takes the lead at Ruach Hamidbar
Rabbi Sarah Leah Grafstein founded Ruach Hamidbar-Spirit of the Desert in 1989, and now she is ready to let Rabbi Alan Scott Bachman take the lead. She announced at Rosh Hashanah services this year that she would transition to the role of rabbi emerita and Rabbi Bachman would take over and lead the congregation. Rabbi…
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Arizona groups emphasize importance of Holocaust education
Photo: A high school student tours the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. 15 states currently require Holocaust education as part of their secondary school curricula. Arizona is not one of them. There have been at least four high-profile antisemitic incidents in Arizona in the last year. Experts say a lack of education…
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Jews of Color Career Development Program Launches
The Jews of Color (JOC) Career Development Program announced its first cohort members today – on Indigenous People’s Day – who will work in Jewish ventures and institutions across the country, developing their skills as entrepreneurial leaders working toward system-level change in the Jewish community. A partnership between UpStart and the Jews of Color Initiative…
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Conversations with Maury
Photo: Karen Supman in 2018. Karen Supman was diagnosed with plasmacytoma with amyloid, abnormal plasma cell growth that is cancerous, in 2006. You can read the account of when she received her diagnosis here: Hearing I Had Cancer. The following piece is a continuation of her healing journey. By Karen Supman After the chemo and…
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ADL’s Arizona Region Welcomes Marc Lerner
ADL’s Arizona Region welcomes Marc Lerner as Chair of the Regional Advisory Board. He begins a 2-year term this month. Lerner is a Hearing Attorney for Mercy Care, a large Medicaid Plan administered by Aetna, a business unit of CVSHealth. He is also on the Board of Ryan House and was part of the Wexner…
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BBYO and Our Common Destiny Launch International Teen Competition
BBYO, in partnership with Our Common Destiny and the Marcus Foundation, is launching a new international $50,000 teen competition called the Common Ground Challenge in which participants will compete to design and implement new engagement programs that encourage dynamic conversation among diverse groups of teens. The challenge was created in the memory of Ilia Salita,…