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Aug
3
Wed
A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It – 2016 Spirit Program @ Congregation Chofetz Chayim/Southwest Torah Institute
Aug 3 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the 2016 Spirit Team for “A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It,” two weeks of free, yeshiva-style learning with four dynamic rabbinical students from the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens, New York and Rabbi Israel Becker of Tucson’s Southwest Torah Institute and Congregation Chofetz Chayim. Sessions are offered from 9 A.M. to noon and 8 P.M. to 9:45 P.M. daily except for Shabbat. Learning is offered to men and boys ages eight and up and cover all topics of Jewish interest, in individual and group settings. Call Rabbi Becker at 520-747-7780 to register.

Aug
4
Thu
A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It – 2016 Spirit Program @ Congregation Chofetz Chayim/Southwest Torah Institute
Aug 4 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the 2016 Spirit Team for “A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It,” two weeks of free, yeshiva-style learning with four dynamic rabbinical students from the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens, New York and Rabbi Israel Becker of Tucson’s Southwest Torah Institute and Congregation Chofetz Chayim. Sessions are offered from 9 A.M. to noon and 8 P.M. to 9:45 P.M. daily except for Shabbat. Learning is offered to men and boys ages eight and up and cover all topics of Jewish interest, in individual and group settings. Call Rabbi Becker at 520-747-7780 to register.

Aug
5
Fri
A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It – 2016 Spirit Program @ Congregation Chofetz Chayim/Southwest Torah Institute
Aug 5 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the 2016 Spirit Team for “A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It,” two weeks of free, yeshiva-style learning with four dynamic rabbinical students from the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens, New York and Rabbi Israel Becker of Tucson’s Southwest Torah Institute and Congregation Chofetz Chayim. Sessions are offered from 9 A.M. to noon and 8 P.M. to 9:45 P.M. daily except for Shabbat. Learning is offered to men and boys ages eight and up and cover all topics of Jewish interest, in individual and group settings. Call Rabbi Becker at 520-747-7780 to register.

Music & Me @ East Valley JCC
Aug 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Music & Me! A parent and child music class every Friday morning at the EVJCC. Taught by Hannah Creviston, Assistant Professor of Music at ASU, she uses an innovative curriculum to aid in developing musical potential of young children ages newborn through 18 months.

Aug
6
Sat
Kids Night Out @ Arizona Sunrays Gymnastics & Dance Center
Aug 6 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Bring the kids, ages 3 to 14, to the Arizona Sunrays Gymnastics Center where they’ll get to enjoy an exciting evening of gymnastics, dance, organized games, sports, jumping in a bounce house and on trampolines, obstacle courses, and then wind down the evening by watching a movie. The Kids’ Night Out is from 6 to 10 p.m. Cost is $30 per child with a $5 off sibling discount. Pizza, snacks and drinks are included. Advanced registration is required. $5 fee for same-day registration. There’s also easy online registration.

Aug
7
Sun
A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It – 2016 Spirit Program @ Congregation Chofetz Chayim/Southwest Torah Institute
Aug 7 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join the 2016 Spirit Team for “A Tree of Life for Those Who Grasp It,” two weeks of free, yeshiva-style learning with four dynamic rabbinical students from the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Queens, New York and Rabbi Israel Becker of Tucson’s Southwest Torah Institute and Congregation Chofetz Chayim. Sessions are offered from 9 A.M. to noon and 8 P.M. to 9:45 P.M. daily except for Shabbat. Learning is offered to men and boys ages eight and up and cover all topics of Jewish interest, in individual and group settings. Call Rabbi Becker at 520-747-7780 to register.

Temple Beth Sholom EV Open House @ Temple Beth Sholom
Aug 7 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley is The only traditional Conservative Synagogue in the East Valley.   TBS EV has been serving the community for over 60 years.  We have wonderful programs for everyone, including a Preschool, Religious School and Desert Jewish Academy day school.  Come meet our Leadership, Teachers and Congregation during our Open House!

Jewish Singles Sunday Brunch @ First Watch
Aug 7 @ 11:30 am
Jewish Singles of the Valley (JSOV), a social group for ages 40-plus, will be holding a Sunday Brunch on August 7 at First Watch, 13802 N. Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. The Brunch is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Jewish Singles of the Valley was started in late February and is holding three to five events each month including social functions, cultural activities and entertainment. The group has already held Theater/Dinner events, Weeknight Dinners, Happy Hours, Sunday Brunches, Dinner/Concert events, Bowling & Pizza Night, and a Pseudo Seder, with plans for ice skating, hikes, discussion groups, game nights, house parties and more. For complete information on reservations for the Brunch and on other upcoming events, send an e-mail message with your request to singles@centurylink.net.
Klezmania – Featuring Yale and Elizabeth Strom @ Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center
Aug 7 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

For over three decades, Yale Strom has been one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer music, history and culture. Since he began in 1981, Strom has been composing his own New Jewish music, which combines klezmer with Khasidic nigunim , Roma, jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs. He composed original music for the Denver Center production of Tony Kushner’s The Dybbuk. He also composed all the New Jewish music for the National Public Radio series Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories from the Old World to the New, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, His many recordings run the gamut of traditional klezmer to “new” Jewish music and have appeared on Top Ten, Year’s Best and critically acclaimed lists across North America.

Strom is also a compelling educator. He is an artist-in-residence in the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University, a position that was created for him. His research has resulted in books, documentary films, CD recordings, plays and photo-exhibitions that have been seen and heard all over the world.

He will play locally with his wife Elizabeth as well as the Rural Street Klezmer Band. Formed in 2002, this group consists of musicians from throughout the Phoenix area and is currently based out of Temple Emanuel in Tempe

Tickets $18 ($10 for AZJHS and NowGen Members)

Visit https://azjhs.org/ or call 602-241-7870

This program is supported in part by a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix

 

Aug
8
Mon
Beginner’s Tai Chi @ Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley
Aug 8 @ 2:30 pm

Beginners’ Tai Chi: NEW CLASS 2:30 – 4 p.m. Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley Social Hall, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. Open to the general public; no experience required. Repeats every Monday through Dec. 19 except Sept. 5, Oct. 3, 10. Free. Information: taichi@tbsev.org

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