Photo: “Sunscreen,” 2020, by Phoenix artist Ellen Nemetz from “Artists’ Breakfast Club, 20 Years.” In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Valley-based Artists’ Breakfast Club will be featured in a new exhibition by Scottsdale Public Art from Oct. 5 through Dec. 31, 2020, at the Civic Center Public Gallery inside the Scottsdale Civic Center Library….
Reality dawned slowly, painfully. In mid-March, it suddenly became clear that the novel coronavirus that first ravaged China, and then parts of Europe, was becoming a global pandemic. Five months later, the death toll remains staggering. On Aug. 20, Chabad.org published “Each Person, a World,” a memorial page paying tribute to the 1,200 Jewish victims…
Fourteen-year-old Logan Rose is taking a famed youth sport to a new level. The young visionary is the founder of Little League Wiffleball, a competitive wiffleball league in Paradise Valley. Logan has a new target in sight, to create America’s next great wiffleball tournament – The Western Wiffleball Classic. The success of Logan’s first accomplishment, Little…
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce Debra Grobmeier of Horizon High School in Phoenix as the September 2020 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” Debra is a freshman math teacher who has been teaching for 23 years. She was awarded a check for $500 to use for classroom…
JTA — For Mandy Patinkin, blowing the shofar on TV was his way to help Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish be heard. Ginsburg had told her family shortly before she passed away on Friday that it was her “fervent wish” that she not be replaced until there is a new president. Patinkin was appearing Sept….
Dean Kremer (photo credit: REUTERS) By Danny Grossman, The Jerusalem Post Dean Kremer, the first Israeli to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team, made a stunning debut on Sept. 6 for the Orioles by dominating the Yankees in Baltimore for the first win of his career. Kremer outdueled New York’s two-time All-Star Masahiro…
Photo: Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt speaks during a private ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) By Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post As three days of ceremonial mourning began on Wednesday for Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
By Stu Turgel As a Jew I am proud to be a part of a people whose lives are guided by a mix of biblical commandments and laws blended with traditions and customs that have been handed down from over the millennia through Rabbis, teachers and family. We are a diverse people who adhere to…
In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, and at the height of the economic crisis following the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is providing Holiday Gift Cards to some 12,700 soldiers in need and Lone Soldiers currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) so they can celebrate the holiday without…
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Masa Israel Teaching Fellows (MITF), a Masa Israel Journey experience in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Education. The 2020-21 Fellows have arrived from various countries and states including Arizona teachers Alexandra Goldberg and Sarah Balis. Under the strict guidelines and with approval from Israel’s Ministry of Health, Fellows…
