Fashion is a worldwide phenomenon, with many of the world’s leading designers stem- ming from Jewish ancestry. designers includ- ing ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, isaac Mizrahi, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen and diane von Furstenberg are among the ranks of leading designers in today’s market. Notably, diane von Furstenberg, the creator of the iconic wrap dress,…
Just when we thought we had mastered almost all the fancy terms a fine restaurant’s menu could throw at us, we come across yet another: charcuterie. Charcuterie is the hot new trend, from artisan butcher shops to the menus of the hippest hole-in-the- wall eateries. Young, tattooed chefs everywhere are coming up with curious menu…
Interested in receiving free books of Jewish content for the young child in your life? Check out the PJ Library in a location near you. PJ library is a Jewish family engagement program implemented on a local level throughout North America. Created by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation in 2006, PJ Library provides free books and…
Valley Youth Theatre’s upcoming new musical, “They Chose Me!” is presented in partnership with the Arizona Association for Foster and Adoptive Parents and Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation. The show is heralded as a funny, heartwarming and inspirational story that reflects on foster care and adoption, both traditional and nontraditional, as seen through the…
If music is the language of the soul, klezmer music is the Yiddish – and possibly the chicken soup – of the Jewish soul. Klezmer music originated with traveling Ashkenazi Jews in the Russian Pale and was intended to mimic the human voice. The clarinet wails, the accordion hums, the violin vibrates through your body….
Their real lives read almost like a storybook, but the picture books Rodney and Sasha Glassman create inspire children to improve the real world. The two met in law school at the University of Arizona, but didn’t start dating until after they saw each other on J-Date. Sasha, 31, a corporate attorney, and Rodney, 34,…
Touch the bronze. Wrap your hands around its energy. Caress the sensual curves. “I can feel the force of the figure taking shape and coming to life through my hands in clay,” says Tucson sculptor David Unger from his home studio near sublime Sabino Canyon and the Santa Catalina Mountains. “You know when you go…
Spring training, February 1971, Francisco Grande Resort, Casa Grande, AZ: Steven Michael Stone, 23, 5 foot, 91⁄4 inches, 182 pounds, a Jewish kid from South Euclid, OH, is throwing batting practice to Willie “Say Hey” Mays – for many fans the greatest player in baseball history. The hardest throwing pitcher from the Giants’ farm system…
The three-part question posed in the title of this article is one I ask of each person who is about to embark on the search for love. In order to embrace the idea of new love and be able to follow through to find it, the answer to all three questions must be a resounding…
Two interesting events took place the first week of March as I wrote this article. They were hardly noticed internationally, but they offer a compelling view of Israel’s modern-day reality. Negotiations to form a new governing coalition dominated the headlines in Israel. But two other events should be remembered: two Israeli films were finalists at…
