Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and H.E. Shaikh Abdulla Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s Ambassador to the United States, are inviting you to join them on Monday evening, November 9 at 8 pm ET for a historic virtual Kristallnacht commemoration. This is the first time that a Gulf leader will…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and Martin Pear JCC will hold a third community blood drive at the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus on Friday, Nov. 6 from 8 am to 1 pm. To date, approximately 100 donors have answered the call to give back at the first two blood drives, which took place…
Photo: Rabbi Mendy Levertov prepares the materials for Sukkot bags to be given out to those not comfortable attending in person. Photo by Elliott McVeigh. By Elliott McVeigh As we entered the synagogue at Chabad-Lubavitch in Phoenix, Orthodox Rabbi Mendy Levertov greeted another older rabbi by yelling across the room. In any other year, shouting…
Photo: From left, Kim Subrin, Leah Zigmond and Audrey Edwards. Martin Pear JCC on the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus (“The J”) announces the arrival of Audrey Edwards into the newly created role of chief experience officer. Audrey comes to The J having served at the Boston JCC for more than two decades. In her…
Photo: Rabbi Jeremy Schneider, RJE. The congregants of Temple Kol Ami received a surprise announcement from the President of the Leadership Board of Trustees, Russ Palay, during his “state of the temple” address on Rosh Hashanah. Russ announced that Rabbi Jeremy Schneider, RJE, had been awarded a lifetime contract by the temple. The announcement was…
Dean Kremer (photo credit: REUTERS) By Danny Grossman, The Jerusalem Post Dean Kremer, the first Israeli to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team, made a stunning debut on Sept. 6 for the Orioles by dominating the Yankees in Baltimore for the first win of his career. Kremer outdueled New York’s two-time All-Star Masahiro…
Stuart Mellon had planned the date of his May 2020 retirement from the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona for a long time, but he never liked it when people would tell him he had to “make a plan” for when he was no longer working. “I wanted to push the pause button for a while,”…
Laura McKee is the new executive assistant to the CEO of the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. Laura began her career with an associate’s degree as a legal assistant and worked as a legal secretary while earning her bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. She was then…
Even though Rabbi David Klatzker won’t physically move to Arizona until Sept. 8, he has already been working on getting to know the members of Congregation Or Tzion. Rabbi Klatzker has been chosen for the role of transitional rabbi since Or Tzion lost its beloved leader, Rabbi Micah Caplan, on June 14. Klatzker decided to…
Photo: The ad that made the Szyfbergs celebrities in New Zealand. After two lighthearted conversations with Neil Szyfberg, I can tell you one thing, Jewish mothers don’t have anything over this Jewish father. In fact, Neil’s wife, Mindy – who was a Hebrew school teacher at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, OR for 20 years…
