Who is one of your favorite figures from Jewish texts? Answer: Bruriah – Talmudic Scholar, Feminist Hero, Advocate for Human Potential Bruriah was one of the great Talmudic scholars. Her husband was the great sage Rebbi Meir and her father was Rabbi Hananiah Ben Teradion (one of the “Ten Martyrs” in the Yom Kippur liturgy…
The Maccabees, pilgrims and American Indians will be sharing a very special meal at our table this year, and it won’t happen again until the year 79,811. Yup! Try explaining that one to your 7- and 4-year-old. I did explain this as a great opportunity to celebrate Jewry in America. Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or…
It’s funny how connections are made when we least expect them. Even when I think our special sections will be totally unrelated, themes seem to emerge as if by magic. I thought our sections on Camp, Seniors and Hanukkah would be completely independent. Yet as I read the stories and looked at the pages, I…
I am a pushover. Really. It’s pathetic. All it takes for me to forgive weeks, and I do mean weeks, of maltreatment and abuse is a little boy wrapped in a Cardinal’s Snuggie watching “I Love Lucy” reruns, and I turn into a puddle of mushy oatmeal. Eli, my 9-year-old, has been going through a…
Robert Sutz is a man on a mission. He’s one of America’s noted impressionist painters with work widely dis- played in galleries and private collections across the U.S. and abroad. His studio boasts a bronze bust of Barry Goldwater that he was commissioned to make several decades ago. He was also commissioned to paint the…
The results are in of our Singles Survey! Thank you to all participants. Never Married – 20.59%, Divorced – 55.88%, Widowed – 23.53% Age: 20-30 – 11.76%, 40-50 – 20.59%, 50-60 – 23.53%, 60+ – 44.12% Average Time Single: 7.5 years 50% would like to join a singles group: Many are on MeetUp Jewish Groups Prefer…
Both the Pescott and Tucson areas preceded Phoenix in attracting newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe, who rode mules and covered wagons on their explorations to the West in the mid-1800s. "The hearty settlers were looking for the illusive American dream they so coveted. Northern Arizona was a stopping point for many…
Among the luminaries were Michael Wormser, Emil Ganz, the Goldwater (Goldvasser) brothers and Isidor E. Solomon. Michael Wormser, a French Jew, began acquiring land in the Valley around 1863. He later opened stores, first in Prescott and then in Phoenix. Upon his death he left land to Temple Beth Israel to establish the first…
While the first known Jewish settler arrived in Southern Arizona in 1854, the earliest indications of Jewish religious activities in Arizona appeared in newspapers in the 1870s Newspapers in Prescott and Tucson began announcing that Jews in those communities were closing their places of business and gathering for High Holy Days services. In 1880 Jewish…
During the first year of a new graduate program in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, two students earned Judaic Studies Graduate Certifcates. “We’ve been working on a graduate program for some time. Originally we had our sights on a master’s program,” says Beth Alpert Nakhai, Ph.D., ACJS…
