Ester Leutenberg and her daughter Kathy Khalsa were inspired to write their first book together in 1987, in response to their son and brother Mitchell’s death by suicide the previous year. It provided a path to healing for them, while creating a tool to help others. With illustrations by her younger daughter, Amy, their Life…
Lance Goldberg does not shy away from discussing death. It’s actually a top priority for him. He is carrying on the advocacy work that his wife, Terry, started before she died in 2015. “We all die. And our loved ones all die,” says Lance. “It’s not a question of can you keep them from dying,…
One Sunday night a month during the school year, 15 middle school students from across the Valley set aside homework, family, friends and social media to bring joy to the residents of The Palazzo (formerly Brookdale Christown) senior center, where they focused on a different kind of screen time. It was a monthly highlight for…
Launching a nonprofit was not part of her original plan, but Barbara Baroff Kavanagh graciously accepted it as her calling, due to life’s unexpected circumstances. After more than a decade the Glendale-based Arizona Myeloma Network (azmyelomanetwork.org), which she founded in 2004, continues to thrive, providing a variety of free educational and awareness events to those…
When Sheryl Bronkesh got off the plane in Arizona in 1977, she was struck by the smell of the desert. It reminded her of Israel where she had spent her junior year of college. She felt at home and has made it her primary residence for the past 37 years. Born in the Bronx, Sheryl…
Ellen Melamed, 63, always asks herself, “How can I help others?” Currently, a lecturer in family and community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and artist-in-residence at the UA School of Fine Arts, Ellen’s healing path has been circuitous. For the first half of her life, she tried to cope. Born in…
“There are 10,000 people a day turning 65 and I think most of them live in Arizona,” says Janet Arnold, senior concierge for the Valley’s Jewish community. “All the Boomers are getting older and we’re not our parents or our grandparents’ seniors. We’re different. We’re still vibrant, we’re still full of life, we want to…
As the proud daughter of PFC Edward A. Rosenberg, who fought, was wounded in Germany’s Black Forest in WWII, and earned the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, it was a pleasure and privilege for me to attend a recent meeting of Jewish War Veterans Scottsdale Post 210, one of four such groups in Arizona….
Jewish War Veterans Post 210 Commander Michael Chambers’ military past is surprisingly diverse. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy after high school, then after making aliyah, spent six years in army intelligence in the Israel Defense Forces. He then volunteered for the U.S. Air Force reserves when he returned to the States. Not only that,…
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