Photo by Julianne Capati There are two open seats for the Arizona House of Representatives in District 3 and Alma Hernandez will be on the ballot for one of them having won the Democratic primary held on Aug. 28. Alma has been the manager for many political campaigns and she was a delegate for Hillary…
Pictured above: The Women’s Leadership Institute’s third year of mentors and mentees. Rabbi Elana Kanter established the Women’s Jewish Learning Center in 2010 as a center for high-level Torah study for women. Part of the mission of the center is to help develop women’s leadership within the community. The Women’s Leadership Institute is helping to…
Pictured above: Allison embraces her new found siblings, Victoria Yegehiaian and Mark Beekman. Imagine checking your Facebook messages and discovering a note from a woman who claimed to be your long-lost sister, yet you know you grew up an only child. What would you think? That exact situation happened to Rabbi Allison Lawton almost seven…
Pictured above: Alma Hernandez celebrates her win. Courtesy of Alma’s Facebook page. Alma Hernandez finished in the top two for the House of Representatives District 3 Democratic primary election on Aug. 28. This means she will go on the ballot in November for one of the two open spots for the District 3 representative. There…
The momentum from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements shed light on women’s issues such as safe and equal work environments and has forced change. But there is another movement happening where women are outpacing their male counterparts – philanthropy. According to research done through the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, which is part of the Indiana University…
Gail Baer was raised in Bethesda, MD, where her family belonged to a Reform congregation in Washington, D.C. She went through Jewish education, had a bat mitzvah and belonged to a youth group. Her mother was politically active and would bring Gail along to events when appropriate. Soviet Jewry was a big issue in the…
Like many people, Susan Farber’s primary association with Jewish National Fund was that they plant trees. It wasn’t until she participated in the Solidarity Mission to Israel in 2014 that she realized JNF does so much more. Susan had been to Israel in April of 2014, and in July she began seeing images of the…
Little did Katrina Shawver know that when she received a lead to interview Holocaust survivor Henry Zguda for a newspaper article, that she would become the only one entrusted with telling the story of his life. “In November 2002, I wrote my first column on Henry,” says Katrina. “His story fascinated me on several levels….
Pictured above: Ruth Dayan (who turned 101 on March 6) and Sharon Tal. Photo courtesy Baruch Raffic What started as a way to employ new immigrants to Israel in the early 1950s quickly became its own fashion brand. Maskit was conceived by Ruth Dayan (first wife of Gen. Moshe Dayan) and made contemporary luxury clothing…
Raquel Kahn has been dancing since she was a little girl. Whether taking ballet, tap and jazz classes during high school or being on the dance team in college, dance made Raquel the happiest; but she never dreamt she could make a career out of it, until now. She opened Fit 6-7-8 (a play…
