In March, I became executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix after serving as chief development officer for almost two years. The one thing that seems to hold true now more than ever is that the world continues to change more quickly. This is true, as well, in the North American Jewish community…
Shavuot. What a wonderful and special time! We stop, as a people, and joyously express our gratitude to G-d giving us the holiest of gifts, our beloved Torah that has sustained us and nurtured us to this very day. Torah is a gift to the Jewish people, one perhaps that too many of us take for granted…
I have just completed my first two months as executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix. They have been interesting – with racial slurs and swastikas painted on the walls of a local school, an anti-Semitic flier distributed to homes within a mile of the Valley of the Sun JCC and the rash…
Our sages remind us that in every generation, everyone must think of him or herself as having left Egypt. This is to remind us of the incredible role that the Exodus played, and continues to play, in our identity as Jews. It marked the birth of our people as a nation. Each Pesach, we read…
