A man surveys the damage to the Lichtenstein leather goods store after the Kristallnacht pogrom. Photo courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Blue Card, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding Holocaust survivors in the United States, is hoping to spread awareness of the many living survivors who are still in need…
Whenever I am asked why I spend so much time volunteering for the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix, I ask back a simple question: “What would our community look like without the Jewish Federation?” No Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus. No Jewish Tuition Organization. No staff at Arizona State University fighting the Boycott, Divestment and…
PHOTO: A SUPER event on campus to commemorate the Nakba contained a sign saying, “Nakba, the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine.” Taken all together the signs demonize both Israel and Jews. Source Credit: SUPER UW Facebook Page (May 16, 2016) Nearly 100 more incidents of anti-Semitism occurred on campus during the first…
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PHOTO: French Jews from Lyon, Nice, Paris, and Toulouse fleeing anti-Semitism and terror in France arrive in Israel. Photo courtesy of The Fellowship. TEL AVIV– Propelled by worsening anti-Semitism and increasing radical Islamic terror, some 150 French Jews arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport July 20 on a special International Fellowship of Christians and…
PHOTO: Shown at Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016, from left, are SolCold CMO Gadi Grotes, BwareIT founder Konstantin Berezin, Sonorapy head of business development Noemie Alliel, PresenTense Israel CEO Guy Spigelman, Mercu-Removal founder-CTO Zach Barnea, Sensilize cofounder Robi Stark, Waseem Abu Salem of Loop, and Sesame Enable cofounder Oded Ben Dov. By Abigail Klein Leichman…
Amy Cohn recently assumed a national leadership role at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She was appointed as the museum’s first national annual fund chair. Amy’s involvement with the museum goes back over 10 years and includes chairing both the Wings of Memory Society and Leadership Circle at the national and regional levels. She and…
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…
Rabbi Barton Lee, the recently retired Arizona State University Hillel Director will present “Forever Young: A Rabbi’s Challenges Working with Jewish Young Adults on the College Campus” as part of the Beth Ami Temple Speaker Series at Beth Ami Temple in Paradise Valley on Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.Rabbi Lee was the Rabbi/Executive…
