Share the pleasure of knitting and crocheting. Help others with projects and patterns. Can’t knit? We’ll teach you. No reservations required. For more information, contact Harriet at 480.481.7033 or harrietc@vosjcc.org
Stretch! Relax! Breathe! All with goats! Children are constantly moving from the time they get up in the morning to the time they go to sleep at night. With our Goat Yoga Workshop your children will be able to take the time to stretch out their muscles they use while playing every day.
Learn the Mishnah every morning with Rabbi Israel Becker, Monday-Friday 6:15 AM, Shabbos 8:15 AM and Sundays and Major Secular Holidays 7:15 AM.
For the first time in Tucson, everyone in the Jewish community has an opportunity to have their mezuzahs checked!
March 15-19th, Rabbi Moshe Peretz Gilden – a certified scribe from the Milwaukee Kollel – will be at Congregation Chofetz Chayim to check mezuzahs.
Email Rabbi Becker at yzbecker@me.com to set up your appointment. Please indicate the number of mezuzahs. The cost is $10 per mezuzah for inspection and replacement mezuzas are available for sale.
Join us Sunday, March 15, 5-6 p.m. – Rabbi Gilden will present a forum on the detailed training of a scribe, as well as what the scribe looks for in checking a Torah, mezuzah or tefillin and mezuzah placement in homes and private property. This event is free and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by March 11th at www.tuscontorah.org/mezuzah
Get Fit and make friends! Join the J Walkers for a brisk 1.5-mile walk through The J neighborhood. Bring water, wear your walking shoes and meet us every Wednesday morning at the flagpole. Strollers, dogs and all walking paces are welcomed.
Members: Free.
For more information, contact Kristina at 480.481.1797 or kristinab@vosjcc.org
Explore a variety of non-political Jewish topics, including people, history, current events, laws, culture, humor, food and Israel. Each participant reads a section of a select article, which is followed by spirited discussion. No extensive knowledge of Judaism is required. Free. Information and registration: Bob Kalish, 602.375.3660 or joboaz@cox.net.
What started as a challenging idea – to spend a full year living gratefully – became a life-changing experience for author, magazine editor and producer Janice Kaplan. Her inspirational memoir, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Transformed My Life reached the New York Times bestseller list. Gratitude will her topic on Wednesday, March 18 at 7 pm at the Tucson Hebrew Academy at 3888 E. River Road in Tucson for the second annual Rabbi Lee A. Kivel Lecture on Jewish Life, open to the public and presented by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.
Janice promises that attendees can profoundly change their family relationships with what she will share in the lecture. “Improve relationships with your children, your spouse, and the whole family. Knowing how to appreciate your children brings gratitude to their lives.” She also will talk about gratitude at work, “how it can help transform a workplace and make you more successful.”
Registration at the door, for $10, opens at 6:30 pm. Janice’s keynote will be followed by breakout sessions related to gratitude with community rabbis. Refreshments, book sales, and a book signing will follow the program.
For more information, visit jfsa.org/jewishlearning20120.
Rebecca Rust & Friedrich Edelmann – An Evening of Classical Music
Wednesday, March 18th – 7pm
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP: lbell@azjhs.org
We are proud to co-sponsor with the Los Angeles German Consulate General an evening of classical music featuring the work of Jewish composers performed by cellist Rebecca Rust and bassoonist Friedrich Edelmann.
Rust, born in Oakland and raised in Richmond, California, and Edelmann from Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany, met and have been married for over 40 years. They have had stellar teachers and performed under the baton of internationally recognized conductors, almost household names, such as Karel Ancerl, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Maria Giulini, Erich Leinsdorf,
Lorin Maazel, and Kurt Masur. They travel about three months out of the year performing in the United States, especially the West Coast where Rust has family and friends. Performance has also taken them to Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Israel, Italy, Japan (at least 25 locations), Korea, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, and
Venezuela, where Friedrich performed and taught while “Gustavo Dudamel was a baby.” Recently, Rust and Edelmann appeared at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust performing works of Jewish composers banned by the Nazis.
Learn the Mishnah every morning with Rabbi Israel Becker, Monday-Friday 6:15 AM, Shabbos 8:15 AM and Sundays and Major Secular Holidays 7:15 AM.