Barbara Kaplan, CEO of Design Dimensions, acknowledges with a smile that she might well be described as the Valley’s “Grande Dame” of design. Raised in a home where antiques were collected and treasured, Barbara grew up with an appreciation of the impact on people’s lives of their surroundings. She used that knowledge to forge a…
Members of The Slingshot Fund evaluation team are on target when they aim a percentage of their annual allocations to benefit the Scottsdale-based Women’s Jewish Learning Center. “Slingshot,” launched in 2003 by a cadre of young Jews preparing to become involved in their families’ philanthropic efforts, is a guidebook that each year highlights “the 50…
I lost count of the lavishly lit Christmas trees and the abundant decorations in green, red and gold. But for those of us honored to be invited to a Wednesday evening, Dec. 17, holiday reception at the White House, it was Hanukkah heaven. I was in great company. Some 500 of us, Jewish religious and…
Yaakov Kirschen followed the haggadah pledge of “Next Year in Jerusalem” when, in 1971, he “schlepped a wife and three kids” with him from New York to Israel. To mark the 40th year of “Dry Bones,” his internationally syndicated editorial cartoon peopled (and “dogged”) by Mr. Shuldig and Doobie, his irrepressible pet, Kirschen has crafted…
