Pedaling Newfoundland’s Viking Trail offers the challenge of “holding your line” along the edge of Trans Canada Highway 430 while being totally distracted by the Gulf of St. Lawrence’s glorious views. Numerous abandoned fishing villages dot the road throughout Gros Morne National Park. The pebbled beaches separating these villages are outlined by steep, vertical, eroded…
I grew up in a house where words were the currency by which my brother and I gained recognition. Unlike most of our peers, where parental approval was dished out for things like making the varsity team or getting straight A’s, my dad’s highest form of praise came as a result of the words we…
Feeling overworked? Try being a heart! Your heart is under pressure to perform 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And if you are among the one in three adults in the United States living with high blood pressure, you run the risk of your heart “quitting” on you at any time – and…
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Tucson J Special Needs Counselors Emily and Adina make sure Audrey is included in the summer fun. Inclusion is a term we’re hearing more and more of these days. It connotes open, welcoming arms, an acceptance of differences and a way to celebrate the uniqueness in each of us. The National Inclusion Project has partnered…
Summer of 2014 saw the inaugural offering of Camp Ometz, a summer day camp experience created for those children who need some assistance to join the summer fun. A first for the VOSJCC, it was originally scheduled for just one week, but the program was in such demand that a second week was quickly added….
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. Your 17-year-old son comes home from high school not able to distinguish reality from fantasy. You panic. Alcohol? Drugs? How did you miss the signs? You immediately kick into action and take him to the doctor, the psychologist, the psychiatrist. He ends up with a series of diagnoses over the…
I have post-traumatic stress disorder. I just discovered it a few days ago when my friend Tina invited me to work out at a park in North Phoenix. We were going to invent a fun workout running between the swings, the slides and the monkey bars. I was up for the challenge, water bottle in…
May 1, 8, 15, 22 Shabbat and Me is a new, free Shabbat enrichment program with singing, storytelling, crafts and blessings with challah and juice. Offered three Fridays in May, 10-11 am at the Tucson JCC, 3800 E River Road and one Shabbat on the Go: May 1, Shabbat vases; May 8, Shabbat on the…
Celebrating Passover with my family, we gave thanks for the deliverance of the Jews from slavery in Egypt and for the vibrant Jewish communities we have created here, in Israel and throughout the world. I also recalled the message of Washington Bureau Chief for Israel’s Channel 10 News Gil Tamary when he spoke at the…
