J-Serve Day is the International Day of Jewish Youth Service. Since 2005, J-Serve has been a part of Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Day weekend. J-Serve provides teens with the opportunity to fulfill the Jewish values of gemilut chasidim, acts of loving kindness, tzedakah, just and charitable giving, and tikkum olam, the responsibility to repair the world. Choose a service site that interests you from various locations around the Valley and spend the afternoon helping organizations in need. Meet other Jewish teens and help to build community.
Meet at JCC, 12701 N Scottsdale Road
Open to all 6-12 graders. Local sponsor is BBYO. Contact lcharnofsky@bbyo.org
POSTPONED TIL LATER DATE contact Linda Feldman
Jewish Marriage University, 2 full-day sessions of marriage preparation for engaged and serious couples and married couples, too. Also May 3, 9:30 am-3:30 pm at the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, 12701 N Scottsdale Road. Plus, additional class for inter-faith couples on April 29, 6:30-8:30 pm. $85. includes breakfast and lunch.
480-634-8050, lfeldman@bjephoenix.org
Sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix
Get Screened: One in four Jewish individuals of Ashkenazi/Eastern European descent is a carrier for one or more Jewish genetic diseases. Know your genetic risks and options, previously tested (prior to 2012) for fewer than 18 disorders? Pre-registration required, Individuals, ages 18-45 $75. See website for information about FREE screening, College students with valid student ID – FREE
Pre-register at www.jewishgeneticsphx.org
480-668-3347 for more info.
Holocaust Remembrance at 2 pm at Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, 100 Meadowlark Dr. in Sedona. Held in conjunction Temple Heichal Baoranim of Flagstaff and the Martin-Springer Institute of Northern Arizona University. 928-204-1286, jcsvv.org
For Yom Ha’Shoah, the international day of remembrance for those who perished in the Holocaust, PHSA will be holding their annual Yom Ha’Shoah commemoration event “We Are a People of Memory” on April 19 at 3 pm at Congregation Beth Israel, 10460 N 56 St. in Scottsdale. Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane will be giving the keynote address.
Over 50 Holocaust Survivors will participate in the processional. Each will carry a candle as they enter the sanctuary. Cantor Jamie Shpall of CBI is coordinating the music including an adult choir and a children’s choir. The Jewish War Veterans Honor Guard will present the colors and Professor John Liffiton of Scottsdale Community College will receive the Shofar Zakhor Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching of the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness. In addition, George Kalman and Helen Handler, both Holocaust survivors, will speak. A Hebrew High student (to be announced) who received The Bronkesh Award for the most outstanding 2015 Holocaust paper will read his/her essay and Dr. Anna Scherzer, the daughter of Partisans, will sing the Partisan song, “Zog Nit Keymol.”
PHSA invites the whole community to gather together to watch this most inspiring tribute to those 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust and to those Jewish Survivors who were able to live through it.
The program is funded by the Bureau of Jewish Education, the Greater Phoenix Jewish Community Foundation and Generations After, a program founded in 2013 for the descendents of survivors. There is no charge to attend. For further info, call 602-788-7003 or e-mail phoenixsurvivors@gmail.com
Whose Jerusalem? A talk on the Holy City in Judaism, Christianity and Islam with Rabbi Dr. Reuven Firestone. Presented by Valley Beit Midrash at 7 pm at Temple Kol Ami, 15030 N 64 St. in Scottsdale. $18 suggested donation. 602-445-3112, valleybeitmidrash.org
Yom HaZikaron is Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel and victims of terrorist attacks.
Hope for Today is a spiritual program of recovery for those who suffer from the debilitating effects of chronic pain and chronic illness, based on the Twelve Steps of AA. Offered each Tuesday in April at 3:30 pm by the Deutsch Family Shalom Center at the house at Temple Chai, 4645 E Marilyn Road, off south parking lot. No charge. Contact: cpa-az@cox.net.
Israeli Music Concert at 5 pm at Congregation Anshei Israel, 5550 E Fifth St in Tucson.
Come listen to Israeli favorites, discover new ones, and participate in an Israeli music sing-a-long as we celebrate and show our support of Israel. Featuring CAI’s Adult and Youth Choirs led by Cantorial Soloist Nichole Chorny. Free and open to all. caiaz.org 520-745-5550
There will be a Memorial observance in Tucson for Yom Hazikaron, a day of remembrance for the men, women, boys and girls who have lost their lives due to war or terrorism. As part of Weintraub Israel Center’s Partnership2gether, four teens from the Partnership region of Kiryat Malachi and Hof ashkelon, areas hit hardest by rocket fire during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, have collaborated with teens from Tucson Hebrew High to plan this moving ceremony, which takes place on April 21at 6:30 pm at the Tucson JCC, 3800 E River Road in Tucson
Free and open to all. tucsonjcc.org
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