The momentum from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements shed light on women’s issues such as safe and equal work environments and has forced change. But there is another movement happening where women are outpacing their male counterparts – philanthropy. According to research done through the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, which is part of the Indiana University…
Gail Baer was raised in Bethesda, MD, where her family belonged to a Reform congregation in Washington, D.C. She went through Jewish education, had a bat mitzvah and belonged to a youth group. Her mother was politically active and would bring Gail along to events when appropriate. Soviet Jewry was a big issue in the…
Like many people, Susan Farber’s primary association with Jewish National Fund was that they plant trees. It wasn’t until she participated in the Solidarity Mission to Israel in 2014 that she realized JNF does so much more. Susan had been to Israel in April of 2014, and in July she began seeing images of the…
Little did Katrina Shawver know that when she received a lead to interview Holocaust survivor Henry Zguda for a newspaper article, that she would become the only one entrusted with telling the story of his life. “In November 2002, I wrote my first column on Henry,” says Katrina. “His story fascinated me on several levels….
Pictured above: Ruth Dayan (who turned 101 on March 6) and Sharon Tal. Photo courtesy Baruch Raffic What started as a way to employ new immigrants to Israel in the early 1950s quickly became its own fashion brand. Maskit was conceived by Ruth Dayan (first wife of Gen. Moshe Dayan) and made contemporary luxury clothing…
Raquel Kahn has been dancing since she was a little girl. Whether taking ballet, tap and jazz classes during high school or being on the dance team in college, dance made Raquel the happiest; but she never dreamt she could make a career out of it, until now. She opened Fit 6-7-8 (a play…
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks had been interested in spirituality in an experiential way from a very young age. Raised in a home with no formal religion, Brian would get brief snippets of Judaism while visiting his uncle’s house for Passover and Shabbat. Then when he was 12, his father paid for the whole family to learn…
Jeralynn Benoit, known as Jeri, will be speaking at 10:30 am on April 12 at the Genocide Awareness Week at Scottsdale Community College. Her presentation is on the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, a Nazi-directed raid and mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police on July 16 and 17 in 1942. “I offered to…
Pictured above: Angelo Torrealba, left, and Matthew Apfel of Apfel and Associates. Matthew Apfel is an Arizona native who returned to set up his law practice in 2015 after practicing law in China and Washington, D.C. “My dad had his surgery practice here, and my grandparents started their business here, so it was important for…
Yana Krone joins Hebrew Free Loan Yana Krone has come on board at the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Tucson as the new community relations director. As a graduate from the Ohio State University, Yana started her career in nonprofits at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank in Columbus, Ohio. After moving to Tucson to work on her…
