Photo: Rose Garden – antique copper crocheted wire kippah with variegated rose and purple ribbon yarn and beaded edge. Tucson artist Jere Moskovitz says that she was always a “textile kind of person.” She was taught how to knit and crochet by her mother and grandmother as a young girl. After earning a BFA in…
Photo: Peggy Moffitt modeling ensemble designed by Rudi Gernreich, Fall 1968 collection. Photograph © William Claxton, LLC, courtesy of Demont Photo Management & Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles, with permission of the Rudi Gernreich trademark. This summer, Arizona audiences will have the opportunity to view some of fashion’s most daring and iconic designs in “Fashion’s Subversives”…
Join Chabad of Paradise Valley and special guest Dr. Mark Olsky as he shares his experiences as a child born to a Holocaust survivor on a cattle car driven by Nazis. The lecture is titled “Born in the Shadow of Death.” The Nazis murdered his father, but his mother would not let evil take their…
Jonathan Rosenberg has always been involved in the music industry in one form or another. He has worked as a disc jockey, lead singer in a band and has written and composed music, but it always took a back seat “because he had to earn a living,” which he did as a special education teacher…
The Phoenix Holocaust Association, in coordination with other organizations, is bringing “Holocaust by Bullets” to the Valley from Jan. 26 through April 27. “HBB” showcases the work of Yahad-In Unum (translation: together as one), a non-governmental organization based in Paris and its founder, Father Patrick Desbois. Father Desbois, a French Roman Catholic priest, founded YIU…
Whether you are an avid art collector or just starting your collection, the vast array of fine art genres and mediums exhibited at the 16th Annual Arizona Fine Art EXPO will exceed expectations. Featured inside the 44,000 square-foot tent at the southwest corner of Jomax and Scottsdale Roads are 124 art studios where you can…
TUCSON The beginning of the year is always a special time in Arizona. Not only do we never have to shovel snow in January and February, we have two of the best Jewish film festivals in the country. The films shown at these festivals celebrate Jewish culture and cultural diversity. The Tucson International Jewish Film…
Professional live theatre performances for student audiences of “The Diary of Anne Frank” are scheduled from Feb. 10 to 13 at the 900-seat Madison Center for the Arts at 5601 N. 16th Street in Phoenix. The Detroit-based Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) is the longest continuously operating professional Jewish theatre in North America. It has produced…
Dovid Efune is the editor-in-chief and CEO of the Algemeiner Journal, better known as The Algemeiner. The Algemeiner is a New York-based newspaper covering American and international Jewish and Israel-related news. He is widely credited with transforming The Algemeiner from a Yiddish language print publication into a significant international online destination for Jewish, Israel and…
Photo: Artists Jacki Cohen, left, (photo by JMB Photography) and Judy Paxton Bruce in their studios. After 23 years, it’s hard to believe that some people don’t know that Arizona’s largest and longest-running artist studio tour takes place in November. It’s called “Hidden in the Hills,” and it literally refers to a large, diverse group…
