By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell I am going to name 10 things, and I’d like you to tell me what they all have in common: The number of days from the beginning of the month of Elul until Yom Kippur The number of days that it rained on Noah and the ark The number of days…
Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JFCS), has announced that Andrea Arkow is the new Director of Philanthropy & Donor Engagement. As part of the Philanthropic Services team, Arkow will be responsible for generating annual, major and planned gifts to support Jewish Family & Children’s Service mission and vision. Additionally, she will manage the JFCS Professional Leadership…
Tucson resident Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford’s inspirational bilingual “flip” book for intermediate readers, Raulito: The First Latino Governor of Arizona /El primer gobernador latino de Arizona, recounts the life story of Raúl H. Castro, who was elected the first Mexican-American governor of Arizona in 1974. As a boy growing up in Arizona in the 1920s and…
The first poll to specifically examine rates of anti-Semitism among college students who claim a strong sense of Jewish identity and connection to Israel finds that, among this group, students are feeling unsafe and, as a result, are learning that to avoid anti-Semitism they must view their religion as something to hide, not celebrate. In…
