As a parent, the first thing you want is to protect your child from getting hurt. It’s a lot easier when they’re younger. “Don’t hit your head!”“Watch the step!”“Pay attention!”We constantly monitor our babies and toddlers to ensure safety and a minimum of painful experiences. But it gets harder as they age. That old “bigger…
“The mission of the Jewish Student Union is to get more Jewish teens attending public high schools to do something Jewish! That’s it! It’s that simple!” This is the opening statement on the website for the national Jewish Student Union program, jsu.org. The social and educational movement began includes a topic to discuss and, of…
What an amazing world we live in, with more information and connections at our fingertips than we could ever imagine. This brave new world has come with a price, though, as we’ve gradually replaced human interaction with technological interaction. We have many young people who are not fully equipped for college, the workforce or adult…
In the summer of 2013 Courtney Haworth, director of Camp Simcha, the summer day camp held at Scottsdale’s Congregation Beth Israel, was approached by temple member Daniel Openden with an interesting question. Would the camp consider partnering with SARRC, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, to provide a camping experience for some of their…
For Judith Brown, “Everything is about relationships.” As she retraces her professional life and the people she has encountered across Tucson, that’s easy to see. She’s done it all – development, education, strategic planning, public relations, event planning, media, fundraising – with assignments stretching from the University of Arizona to the city of Tucson and…
“Do you know what this is?” Just before I climbed back up into the Humane Borders water truck, Rex called me over to where he was dislodging a grungy item from the sand. I looked it over: an old piece of white towel, about a foot square, with orange stripes, raggedy and encrusted with desert…
Excerpted from postings by Stuart Wachs, who participated in a Solidarity Mission to Israel with a group of more than 50 Jewish Federation professionals and lay leaders. AUG. 16 I am on my way to Israel today and I stand firmly with Israel. When will the world wake up there is evil in the world!…
The two men and the two communities they serve are miles apart, but they share the same mission: to strengthen Jewish life in their communities, the nation and around the world. The jazz musician and the marathoner are leaders of Arizona’s two largest Jewish communities – one in a city generally known as liberal and…
The Phoenix Community Kollel’s inaugural event drew more than 250 people to welcome four new Kollel families on Sept. 15 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel Grand Ballroom. The new kollel families are rabbi yosef and Chani Alden, Rabbi Yaakov and Nechama Ashin, Rabbi Yaakov and Rivky Gruenebaum, and Rabbi Sholom and Chaviva Skolnick. They join…
Jewish Community Associationhires Maria Wolfe as CMO Maria Wolfe recently moved from Nashville, TN, to north scottsdale and joined the Jewish Community association of greater Phoenix as chief marketing officer. for the past 12 years, she worked within the YMCA of Middle Tennessee Association and built a successful marketing consulting business – assisting health and…
