It’s Not Just Lunch at the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, 12701 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale from noon-1:30 pm. Great speakers and a different topic each month with a full kosher lunch. $5 suggested donation. A collaboration with Smile On Seniors. Contact Chani at 602-492-7670 or chani@sosaz.org.
ADL Arizona is thrilled to announce the return of Peer Links, a one-day youth summit or certified Peer Trainers and other Arizona high school students dedicated to challenging bias, bullying and bigotry within their schools and communities.
This year’s theme, Challenge Bias, Bullying and Bigotry through Moral Courage informs the selection of guest speakers, interactive anti-bias activities and student forums for discussion. Click here for our schedule of events.
Note: For security purposes, we ask that interested schools please contact mdunn@adl.org for exact event address.
ADL encourages all current and prospective high school partners to send a student delegation.
Student participants must be in grades 9-12 and grouped into delegations. Each delegation should consider of four students and one adult chaperone. Each school may register a maximum of four delegations, or 20 participants (including chaperones.)
Although we will make every effort to accommodate all interested parties, please note that space is limited and registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to register your participants as early as possible! Space permitting, completed and signed registrations will be accepted until Thursday, January 26, 2017.
NEW! Parkinson’s PWR!Moves 3TM Thurs., Feb. 2, 9, 16 & 23 | noon – 1 p.m. Valley of the Sun JCC – 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale 85254 This class integrates PWR!Moves 1 & 2TM movements into a more advanced workout with instructor-guided exercises to improve functional movement. Participants must be able to walk 150 feet on their own with or without a cane or walker. Free to J members; $5 for non-members. Information and registration: 480.481.7090 or healthandfitness@vosjcc.org.
2017 Greater Phoenix Economic Outlook featuring Elliott Pollack at Biltmore Financial Center, 2398 E Camelback Road #180, Phoenix from 5:30-8 pm. Jewish business professionals network and learn about the state of business in the Valley, economic trends and more. Includes appetizers, wine and beer. $18 for professionals; $10 for students. 480-481-1754 or jewishphoenix.org.
Madison School District Kindergarten Roundup at all Madison elementary schools from 6-7 pm. Tour the school, speak with administrators and receive information on enrollment on the 2017-2018 school year. Free. madisonaz.org.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is partnering with the Tucson Jewish Community Center (the Tucson J) to deliver a four-part educational series on cancer beginning in early February. The series, which is free and open to the public, will be delivered by clinical and faculty members of the UACC and will focus on trends in research and clinical care involving such topics as breast cancer, head and neck cancer, translational science, and diet. The lectures are free and open to the public and are held at the Tucson J at 6:30 p.m.
Bear Down. Beat Cancer.
Cancer directly impacts 1 out of every 3 people. Science and technology has transformed the fight against cancer since then-President Richard Nixon called for a War on Cancer by signing the National Cancer Act of 1971. Now there is a renewed effort to push the boundaries of medicine in a search for a cure with President Obama’s Cancer Moonshot. From precision medicine, to novel drug development, to the new frontiers of immunology, researchers and clinicians from the University of Arizona Cancer Center will discuss in a free, four-part series the state of cancer research and its impact on the newest and most promising cancer fighting treatments moving into the clinic. The first Thursday of each month, February to May. All lectures are at 6:30 p.m.:
February 2 – From Bench to Bedside: Translating Cancer Research into Clinical Patient Care
Andrew S. Kraft, MD
Sydney E. Salmon Endowed Chair
Director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center
Associate Vice President for Oncology Programs for the University of Arizona Health Sciences
Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research in the College of Medicine
March 2 – Head and Neck Cancer: The Emerging Epidemic
Julie Bauman, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Translational Research
University of Arizona Cancer Center
April 6 – Diet and Cancer: What’s a person to Eat?
Cyndi Thomson, PhD, RD
Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Control
University of Arizona Cancer Center
May 4 – Breast Cancer Research and Patient Care
Joyce Schroeder, PhD
Head of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Inititative
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Arizona Cancer Center
Written by and starring National Lampoon’s Tommy Koenig. Tommy’s hilarious, insightful and wildly entertaining flashback through our times and the music that defined it. The Beatles, Madonna, Elton John, Tina Turner, Lady Gaga, James Brown, Santana, Bee Gees, Neil Young, Blondie, Duran Duran, The Ramones, The Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Human League, RUN-DMC, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, plus original music and lyrics. Contains some adult language.
Times vary.
Includes music, a Shabbat lunch, and a featured program. Get into the spirit of Shabbat and enjoy the friendship and
fellowship of others. Advance registration required. To RSVP call 520-299-3000 or register at tucsonjcc.org. $15 per person,
please pay more if you can, less if you can’t.
February 3, 2017: Fine artist, Carolyn King
March 3, 2017: Program at Tucson Hebrew Academy (THA)
April 7, 2017: A Mah Jongg Experience with Debbie Wiener
$15 per person
Open to All
Jewish Heritage Center