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.
Join us to learn about the Shanghai Jews. Speaker George Goffman.
Out to Lunch follows the meeting. We will be dining at Firebirds, 3435 W. Chandler Blvd, outside Chandler Fashion Center. 480-814-8003.
Please RSVP to Marcia Gurian at 480-838-1226 if you plan to attend.
Bill Adler leads stimulating discussion each month on current events. Bring your ideas to share with the group. Free. For more information, contact Harriet at 480.481.7033 or harrietc@vosjcc.org.
Please join as for a special evening as we highlight the ways in which Jewish Free Loan is impacting our community…one loan at a time.
The program will include:
* Personal stories from those impacted by JFL
*Recognition of our newest named Loan Fund Donors and Legacy Society Members.
* Introduction of the 2019-2020 Board of Directors
6:30pm Registraton/Dairy Dessert Reception
7:00pm Program Promptly Begins
$18 per person
Dietary laws observed/No solicitation of funds
RSVP by April 23, 2018
(602) 230-7983/info@jewishfreeloan.org/www.jewishfreeloan.org
Meet the outrageous drag queen and TV cooking show host, Betty D. Licious, in her first live TV special. Betty and her band of back-up boys manage mess-ups and mishaps on camera, while off-stage she faces personal struggles with aging, losing friends, and being her authentic self. When Betty learns of a plot to end her TV series, hilarity and hysterics collide. Cookin’s a Drag is a wildly campy send-up with a poignant heart of gold.
The Center for Holocaust Education and Human Dignity of the East Valley Jewish Community Center will host a daylong program commemorating the victims of the Holocaust in observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Registration is required for all programs. To register, click here. All programs are free except for the Open Beit Midrash guided tour, which includes a kosher lunch. To make a payment, click here.
- Self-guided tours (Noon-3 p.m.): “Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto” is an exhibit created by the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University that tells the story of young people in the Jewish ghetto of Bedzin, Poland, before, during and after the Holocaust. Reservations are required.
- Guided tour and lunch (11 a.m.): Bjorn Krondorfer, director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University, will lead a tour of the above exhibit as part of Open Beit Midrash. The cost is $14, which includes a kosher lunch following the tour. Reservations are required by April 29.To register, click here. To make a payment, click here.
- Screening of “Shalom Italia” (1 p.m.): This documentary by Tamar Tal Anati tells the story of three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Their quest, full of humor, food and Tuscan landscapes, straddles the boundary between history and myth, both of which really, truly happened. Reservations are required.
- Teacher’s workshop (4-5:30 p.m.): In this free workshop, Bjorn Krondorfer, director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University, will lead a tour of the exhibit and discuss how to approach stories from the Holocaust with students. The program is geared toward teachers who teach high school or college students. Reservations are required.
- Yom Hashoah ceremony (6 p.m.): Procession of survivors and their descendants and a candle-lighting ceremony; presentation by Holocaust survivor Marion Weinzweig, author of “Lonely Chameleon”; presentation by Bjorn Krondorfer, who will share his story about finding out as an adult that his father was a German soldier at a slave labor camp in Poland; and reading of names, Mourner’s Kaddish, El Maleh Rachamim led by Rabbi Michael Beyo. Reservations are required.
Partners of this East Valley JCC program include The Martin-Springer Institute of Northern Arizona University, Temple Emanuel of Tempe, Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley and the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation.
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.
Jewish Family & Children’s Service presents its monthly Memory Café on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at Beth El Congregation, 1118 W. Glendale Avenue in Phoenix, from 10 to 11:30 am. May’s special artists are the popular music duo of Shannon Wallace and Charles Lewis.
As musicians specializing in interactive music workshops for those of all ages living with all stages of dementia and cognitive impairment, Wallace and Lewis have developed the Musical Memory Care Workshop (MMCW) that provides participants with consistency, love, empathy, respect, and sincerity through music – the ingredients paramount for positive outcomes. Join us for an upbeat morning of music and fun.
The Café is a meeting place for those with changes in their thinking or memory, mild cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder, along with their care partners. Offered on the first Thursday of the month, each Café has a new theme and includes meaningful, fun activities to engage the participants and stimulate their minds and bodies. Cafes are a place to socialize, relax, meet others and have fun. Coffee and snacks are provided.
This month’s café is sponsored in part by Connections in Home Care, a locally-owned Home Care company providing excellence in in-home care to Valley seniors. www.chcaz.org
There is no charge to attend, but registration is required. The Café is open to people of all backgrounds. To register or for further information, please e-mail Kathy.rood@jfcsaz.org or call Kathy at 602-452-4627.
Yom Hashoah Remembrance at Northwest Division/Olson Center for Jewish Life, 190 W. Magee Road #162, Oro Valley from 3:30 to 5 pm. Guest speakers, learn about the Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center’s Mapping Migration Photographic Memoir Project and Rabbi Billy will lead lighting yahrzeit candles and kaddish and Emily Ellentuck will lead song. RSVP to 520-505-4161 or jfsa.org/nwyomhashoah.
About this Event
80 Years Later – What Does “Never Again” Mean?
Panelists:
Dr. Alex Alvarez, Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, NAU
Sheila Polk, Yavapai County Attorney
Moderated by: Rabbi Pinchas Allouche, Congregation Beth Tefillah
Sponsored by The Phoenix Holocaust Association in collaboration with The Bureau of Jewish Education & The Jewish Community Relations Council
