Calendar

Feb
18
Mon
Spring Break Basketball Camp @ DreamTeam Academy
Feb 18 @ 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

DreamTeam Academy – a new, state-of-the-art, youth basketball training facility – will host an exciting Spring Break Basketball Camp for ages 7 to 13 on March 11-15 and March 18-22. All members of the coaching staff include current and former college basketball players. Camp days include three hours of basketball training in the morning with two hours of Open Court time. In the afternoon, kids have a great time relaxing in the social lounge where they can watch parent-approved movies, play video games, board games, chess, read books on comfy bean bag chairs, and just hang out. There are even gentle massage chairs and special video game playing chairs for children to enjoy.

A half-day camp option is from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $50. The full-day option is from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pick-up is between 4 and 6 p.m. Cost is $75. A catered lunch is also available for an additional $10 per day. Advanced registration is required. Space is limited to 20 children per day.

DreamTeam Academy is located at 15955 N. Dial Blvd., Suite 3, Scottsdale. For more information, call (480) 800-8326 or visit www.dreamteamacademy.com

Painting 1: Absolute Beginners @ Tucson Jewish Community Center
Feb 18 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Painting 1:  Absolute Beginners
Mondays, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

You will be gently guided, taking baby steps through essential foundational skills and technique overlooked in most art classes. Go from novice to knowledgeable as a painter in just four sessions. ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED. NON-TOXIC environment, with only safe materials and solvents. Oil or Acrylic.

1/28 – 2/18

Instructor: Christine Lytwynczuk
$220/$200 J members
Perlman Art Studio

School’s Out Day at The J @ Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center
Feb 18 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

School’s Out Day at The J at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 9 am to 3 pm. No school? No worries! We have lots of camp-style fun with sports, crafts, games, swim and more! Grades K-4. Extended am and pm care available. For details and registration, visit vosjcc.org/schoolsoutcamp.

Kids in the Kitchen @ Chabad of the East Valley
Feb 18 @ 12:15 pm

Kids in the Kitchen for children in grades 1-6 to experience the joy of kosher cooking. Children will have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves, cook, bake, and decorate fabulous foods, take home their own handmade creations and collect delicious recipes in their own recipe book. Chabad of the East Valley, 875 N McClintock Dr., Chandler. $12/per class, RSVP to youth@chabadcenter.com

Man of the Mountains @ Buffalo Collection
Feb 18 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

An artist reception for internationally collected, extremely talented, self taught painter Dan Deuter, painter, mountain man, historian. Monday, February 18, 2019 from 5:30-8 pm.  Specializing in original oil paintings featuring Native Americans & Bison hunts. Meet Dan in person.

Feb
19
Tue
Men’s Mishnah Class Mon-Fri @ Congregation Chofetz Chayim
Feb 19 @ 6:15 am – 7:15 am

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.

Spring Break Basketball Camp @ DreamTeam Academy
Feb 19 @ 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

DreamTeam Academy – a new, state-of-the-art, youth basketball training facility – will host an exciting Spring Break Basketball Camp for ages 7 to 13 on March 11-15 and March 18-22. All members of the coaching staff include current and former college basketball players. Camp days include three hours of basketball training in the morning with two hours of Open Court time. In the afternoon, kids have a great time relaxing in the social lounge where they can watch parent-approved movies, play video games, board games, chess, read books on comfy bean bag chairs, and just hang out. There are even gentle massage chairs and special video game playing chairs for children to enjoy.

A half-day camp option is from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $50. The full-day option is from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pick-up is between 4 and 6 p.m. Cost is $75. A catered lunch is also available for an additional $10 per day. Advanced registration is required. Space is limited to 20 children per day.

DreamTeam Academy is located at 15955 N. Dial Blvd., Suite 3, Scottsdale. For more information, call (480) 800-8326 or visit www.dreamteamacademy.com

Art Appreciation @ Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center
Feb 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Art Appreciation at the Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from 11am to noon. Share the world of art with docents from the Phoenix Art Museum. This month, explorePostal Art.’ Free.  For more information, contact Harriet at 480-481-7033 or harrietc@vosjcc.org.

JBN Networking Lunch
Feb 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

On the first and third Tuesday of every month Jewish Business Network of Arizona (JBN AZ) members and their guests gather for lunch, education and networking in Scottsdale.

If you are Jewish and looking to network with other Jewish business professionals contact our event organizer about attending this meeting as a guest OR for information about membership.

To learn more about our group and our event speakers visit our website JBNAZ.org.

Defiance through Art performed by the Arizona Opera @ Heard Museum, Phoenix
Feb 19 @ 7:30 pm

Defiance through Art performed by the Arizona Opera – Free Event, RSVP Required

Feb. 19, 7:30pm | Heard Museum, Phoenix

  • A one-act opera by Viktor Ullmann with a libretto by Peter Kien. They collaborated on the work while interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezín) around 1943. The Nazis did not allow it to be performed there.
  • Featuring an original piece, A Beautiful Place, about an art teacher in Theresienstadt who gave hope to the children there through art by Arizona-resident and composer/pianist Craig Bohmler. Bohmler has written three operas, including Riders of the Purple Sage for Arizona Opera, and nine musicals as well as 150 art songs and numerous choral works.
  • The story of the Bielski Family as told by Assiela Bielski Weinstein, daughter of Asael Bielski, who was second in command of the Bielski Partisans, will be a major part of this program.
  • Operating in Western Belorussia (Belarus) between 1942 and 1944, the Bielski partisan group was one of the most significant Jewish resistance efforts against Nazi Germany during World War II. While its members did fight against the Germans and their collaborators, the Bielski group leaders emphasized providing a haven for Jews, particularly women, children, and elderly persons who managed to flee into the forests. Under the protection of the Bielski group, more than 1,200 Jews survived the war, one of the most successful rescue efforts during the Holocaust.
  • In 2008, the inspiring story of the Bielski partisans was made into the motion picture ‘Defiance’, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.

For advertising information, please contact advertise@azjewishlife.com.