Daily Archives: May 2, 2013

Founder Effect: Genetic Diseases

One in 15 Ashkenazi Jewish individuals is a carrier for Gaucher Disease. Thus reads the opening statement on the Jewish Genetic Diseases Center’s website (jewishgeneticsphx.org). It’s a startling fact, and the rest of the site is also filled with facts and figures many people work hard to ignore. We don’t want to think about it,…

Dan Schay Raises Support for Arts

One look at that cherubic face and endearing smile and you think you’re going to like this guy. And once you hear the sincerity, kindness and intelligence coming from the deep, raspy voice, you’re sure of it. Daniel Schay is just so easy to like. That’s one reason he’s been successful around Arizona in raising…

Jewish Musicians at Musical Instrument Museum

DADID BROMBERG – FRIDAY, May 3 | 7:30 PM | TICKETS: $37.50-42.50 He has played with everyone, he has toured everywhere, and he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with a solo acoustic blues rendition. David Bromberg is a master’s master, a string wizard and multi-instrumentalist whose virtuosity led him…

Bela Fleck – Taking the Banjo Solo

New adjectives sum up Béla Fleck’s career better than “eclectic.” The 54-year-old banjo virtuoso has performed just about every kind of music you can imagine, with just about everybody in the business. In addition to bluegrass, Fleck plays classical, world fusion, jazz, klezmer, original compo- sitions and African music, gaining new fans every time he…

Up Close and Personal with Ronit Urman

Ronit Urman is the owner and a broker for Urman Enterprises, LLC. She has more than 20 years of experience in residential and commercial sales as well as development and property management. Her journey to start a real estate company in the Valley has taken her from Israel to Canada to Arizona. Along the way…

Michael Pollack – Centering Communities

Mchael A. Pollack just doesn’t renovate shopping centers; he helps renew communities. “The Renovation King of Distressed Properties,” Pollack is in his 40th year in real estate development and is widely known, and appreciated, for acquir- ing and refurbishing deteriorating commercial and industrial properties. “Aside from its financial benefits, I enjoy this business because I…

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