Northern Arizona Israel Center to be Dedicated May 4 Temple B’rith Shalom in Prescott will have a dedication luncheon at noon on May 4 for the Northern Arizona Israel Center. According to TBs past-president Bob Casden, the center will showcase the successes and growth of Israel as a way to create pride in the community…
For many of us growing up, the Jewish National Fund’s blue tin box was a staple. We’d add our pennies and nickels and when it got close to full, we’d proudly turn it in to a local JNF office. We were helping to buy trees for Israel. Most of us have tree certificates in scrapbooks,…
The statistics are staggering. Concussions affect as many as 4 million Americans annually. More than 45 million young people involved in sports in the United States incur the risk of a concussion. The cost burden from concussion-related injuries on the healthcare system is estimated at about $17 billion per year in the United States alone….
One of the starkest memories I have of coming to Israel for the first time in the ’70s and moving here in 1981 was the seeming absence of any urban planning in the cities or in the national transportation grid. Growing up in Portland, going to university in Seattle, working in San Francisco and having…
Regardless of their specialty, most healthcare professionals (unknowingly) overpay for their office space. I surmise that the reason for this is because real estate decisions are typically made every five to seven years, and few healthcare providers can devote adequate time to becoming proficient at a task that occurs so infrequently. This makes them vulnerable…
After a long conversation with Dr. Cindy and Dr. Steve Goldberg in their exquisite Catalina Foothills home, you get the sense that the couple has truly reaped the harvest of a lifetime dedicated to their passions: family and medicine. A respect and discipline for medicine runs deep on both sides of the Goldberg family. Steve’s…
With almost 40 years of building experience that has included clients such as John Lennon and Donald and Ivana Trump, Chris Mellon has honed his skills so now he can, “listen to exactly what the client wants and then deliver exactly what they are asking for, on time and on budget.” “I started working in…
Say what you will about the real estate market – good, bad or ugly – but it never fails to be interesting or exciting here in the Valley of the Sun. Look in the right places, and you’ll find opportunity. As investors continued to search for yield in 2013’s low-interest-rate environment, real estate investments remained…
Jeff Shaw claims to have been entrepreneurial since birth. There is no evidence that he tried to rally the other infants around self-cleaning diapers or pacifiers with bling, but he probably could have. When he was in summer camp, he bought a box of Warheads, a popular hard candy, for a couple of dollars and…
As Israel celebrates its 66th birthday, we at Arizona Jewish Life thought it would be a good time to pay tribute to the gifts Israel has given the world. For a small nation with a tiny fraction of the world’s population, Israel boasts a surprisingly large number of Nobel Prizes in various sciences and so…
