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In Tucson talk, journalist will examine media bias on Israel

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t’s very important to understand who is feeding you information and why they are doing so, says Matti Friedman, an award-winning author and former reporter for the Associated Press’ Jerusalem bureau.

“We all need to be critical consumers of media, not just where Israel is concerned,” says Friedman. “The hostility to Israel expressed in mainstream media coverage is not dissipating. If anything, it’s growing – the story becomes more and more hostile as time goes on, and seems unaffected by other events.”

However, the proportion of biased and unfavorable cover-

age of Israel being published has somewhat improved, he says, because of newsroom cuts and the media’s shift towards other parts of the region as the Middle East continues to destabilize.

As an author, journalist and former soldier for the Israel Defense Forces, it’s his duty to help people better understand the world, says Friedman.

“I’m not writing about my experiences as a journalist or a soldier because they’re about me, but because those experiences contain helpful information for people trying to figure things out,” he says. “If someone walks out of a lecture, or puts down my book with a better grasp of a complex reality — I’ve done my job.”

Friedman will be the guest

Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman is the author of ‘Pumpkinflowers’

speaker at a lecture event on Sunday, May 14, at Congregation Chofetz Chayim, presented in conjunction with the Wein-

traub Israel Center. The event will kickoff at 5 p.m. with a light Israeli buffet, followed by the See Bias, page 2

JFSA annual meeting and awards to celebrate ‘The Next 70’ The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona will wrap up its 70th anniversary year at its annual meeting and awards celebration. The salute to “The Next 70” will be held Thursday, May 11 at 7 p.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center.

Jeff Artzi and Joyce Stuehringer will be honored as Man of the Year and Woman of the Year.

“Jeff ’s infectious enthusiasm, creativity, and passion for Jewish community has been a blessing to our Jewish community. Whether as chair of the Weintraub Israel Center and co-leader of its first Israel trip, or as co-chair of the Federation’s Together Event — Jeff ’s leadership has resulted in one community success after another,” says Stu Mellan, JFSA president and CEO.

Jeff Artzi

Joyce Stuehringer

“Joyce emanates a warmth and an elegance that draws people around her,” says Mellan. “Her willingness to assume leadership has continued recently as she

served as chair of Women’s Philanthropy for the Federation, as well as giving leadership to the Disability Task Force through the Tucson Jewish Community

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Award winners will receive “Feddys,” metal and glass awards custom designed by local artist Lynne Rae Lowe.

Avi Erbst will receive the Gary I. Sarver Young Man of the Year Award and Amy Beyer will receive the Gary I. Sarver Young Woman of the Year Award. These awards include stipends to be applied toward an Israel mission or attendance at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will receive a Special Recognition Award.

Todd Rockoff, president and CEO of the Tucson J, will be honored as the Ben and Betty Brook Community Professional of the See Celebrate, page 4

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lecture, “Why Is the Media Confused About Israel?” at 6 p.m. It is part of the Tucson Jewish Community’s monthlong celebration of Israel’s Independence Day and the reunification of Jerusalem.

Friedman was born in Toronto, Canada, but has lived in Israel since 1995.

He served in the IDF during the South Lebanon conflict, at the tail end of the 1990s. His books, both published by Algonquin Books, are “The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books” (2013) and “Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story” (2016).

Friedman’s latest book recalls his time as a soldier fighting in Israel’s forgotten war in southern Lebanon at the close of last century, he says, which is key to understanding Israel today.

“The war shaped Israeli society, and shaped the army, and created Hezbollah, which went, in those years, from a ragtag militia to one of the most important

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regional players,” he says.

“When I sat down to write ‘Pumpkinflowers’ I thought that an American reader would find useful echoes of Iraq and Afghanistan in our experiences at Outpost Pumpkin, which were in some ways a prologue to the American wars of the 21st century.”

But the heart of this book is the universal experience of moving from civilian life into a warzone, Friedman says.

“My main motivation has always been less about politics, and strategy, than about understanding the souls of young people taken from their normal lives and sent to war,” he says.

Rabbi Israel Becker of Congregation Chofetz Chayim says he was especially intrigued by the constructive insight Friedman could provide about how Israel is portrayed in the media.

It’s vital for the Jewish community to get an unfiltered picture of what motivates Israel both politically and socially, Becker says.

“Because Israel is so misportrayed I think it is so important for Jews to un-

derstand the compassion of Israel, and the efforts of Israel to deal, in a human way, with all the inhabitants of Israel — and even, to deal in a very human way when they are at warfare.”

Becker says he can’t be sure if the world will ever understand Israeli foreign and domestic policy, when one considers the historical prejudice against Jews, which was further exacerbated by the founding of Israel.

“However, what I would like to see is for the world community as well as the Jewish people to understand Israel.

And for Jewish people to gain a clear perspective and not to be tainted by the imbalance of the media,” he says.

“I feel that the sacrifices that Israel has made, and repeats to make, are not presented and not understood by the world.”

The media’s misrepresentation of Jews is the current manifestation of a struggle dating back thousands of years, says Becker. “And considering the survival of the Jewish people in spite of it is nothing short of a miracle, and the greatest testa-

ment of G-d’s presence and love.”

After having a few conversations with Friedman, and reading his books and articles, Becker realized that “in order to gain an understanding of the media’s issues with Israel, you have to gain an understanding of the whole Middle East dynamics, in every single country.”

“And rather than look at Israel as a separate situation, it needs to be understood in the context of everything that’s going on,” he says.

From an insider’s perspective, Friedman hopes to expose the political manipulations and bias ever-present in foreign media outlets reporting from and about Israel, he says.

“Over the past few years, I have tried to use those experiences to help observers  like the audience in Tucson  bridge the gap between the reality of Israel and the largely fictional story that they’re getting in many media outlets,” says Friedman. “This story is generating intense hostility to the country and making Israel’s actual problems hard to understand.”

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luid Identities: New Mexican Crypto Jews in the Late 20th Century” is currently on display at Tucson’s Jewish History Museum. On loan from the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, “Fluid Identities” is part of a larger exhibition entitled “Fractured Faiths.” The Tucson exhibit offers an opportunity to delve into the topic of Crypto Jews (hidden Jews, also known as Conversos, or converts) and the intriguing idea that some of our Hispanic neighbors could have Jewish ancestry.

At the core of “Fluid Identities” are photo portraits of 26 northern New Mexico Cripto-Judíos or Crypto-Jews accompanied by short, descriptive narratives.

There are also religious articles and art pieces that display a mélange of Christian and Jewish symbols. The iconographic mixture mirrors the lives of these Hispanic people whose families have practiced Christianity for many generations, but who believe that they are descendants of Jews from Spain. They self-identify using the term “Crypto-Jew,” which they have embraced with pride. The adoption of the term attests to the fluidity of identity and language over time, as “CriptoJudío” or “Crypto-Jew” has historically been a derogatory label.

The Spanish crown, in the 15th century, forced all non-Christians to convert to Catholicism. There soon followed the Inquisition, which employed brutal means to root out and punish what the inquisitors judged to be insincere conversions of Jewish and Muslim “infidels.” Within less than 15 years of the establishment of the Inquisition came the formal expulsion of the Jewish population from Spain in 1492. The subsequent Diaspora brought Jews to the New World, some of whom settled in what is now the American Southwest. They had hoped to escape the persecution related to the Inquisition, yet the Inquisition came to the New World, reinforcing the practice of hiding one’s Judaism.

The “Cruz de los Sepharditos de Nuestra Tierra Sagrada” by artist Carlie Sánchez illustrates the confluence of cultures.

This need for secrecy and the confinement of Jewish practices to private individual expression (as opposed to reinforcing, celebrating and validating Jewish traditions in a community setting) are hallmarks of the New Mexican Crypto Jewish experience. Audio testimonials in the “Fluid Identities” exhibit include one by Jacobo de la Serna, who recounts asking his abuela (grandmother) over the course of many years about their genealogical background, particularly as to whether they had Jewish ancestors. “’Probablemente que sí’ (probably, yes) was the closest to yes that anyone in the family ever got,” says de la Serna.

He reports that after repeatedly evading his queries, his grandmother finally did share information about the women in their New Mexico village of Monero going into arroyos in the canyon where they discovered their men standing in an inward-facing circle, swaying and chanting in what sounded like Spanish but with other strange words mixed in. De la Serna attributes the language to prayers uttered in Ladino, the See Fluid, page 4

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The Rabbi Arthur R. Oleisky Teen Recognition Award will go to Rachel Davenport.

The Ben and Sally Smith Memorial College Youth Award, determined by a committee of the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, will be presented to Daniela Tascarella.

The Meyer and Libby Marmis Humanitarian Award will be presented to Homicide Survivors, a nonprofit victim assistance organization.

Sister Jose Women’s Center, the focus of the Federation’s 70th anniversary mitz-

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Sephardic equivalent of Yiddish. He also relates that his grandmother “went crazy when her half sisters from Albuquerque tried to get into her kitchen,” as she didn’t want anyone to interfere with her system of separating certain pots and pans for dishes that contained milk. “If my grandmother was of Sephardic ancestry,” says de la Serna, “she had a real fear of letting that out.”

A written testimonial displayed next to a photo of Charlie Sánchez reads: “Charlie Sánchez has deep roots in New Mexico. He has memories of family members slaughtering sheep in a kosher fashion, letting the blood run down after cutting its jugular vein. They never ate pork.

His grandmother also had a tradition of lighting candles every Friday evening. In recent years Charlie has traced his family lineage back to the town of Llerena in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. It had a significant Jewish population prior to 1492.”

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vah project, will be highlighted.

The ceremony will include the election and installation of the Federation’s 201718 officers and directors. The Federation will honor Tom Warne as outgoing chair, Deborah Oseran as outgoing Campaign chair, Madeline Friedman as outgoing Women’s Philanthropy Campaign chair and Jim Whitehill for 20 years of board service.

Michael Shiner and Sarah Singer are co-chairs of the 2017 Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration and Shelly Silverman and Stuart Shatken co-chaired the awards committee.

An ice cream social will follow the presentations. The cost of the event is $5. RSVP at jfsa.org or call 577-9393 for more information.

Director Bryan Davis says that he hopes “Fluid Identities” will prove to be a template for a similar exhibit of 21st century Crypto Jews of Southern Arizona. Not a month goes by, he says, without someone from the local Latino community coming into the museum with questions regarding Judaism, their interest piqued by family traditions and practices that could perhaps be explained by Jewish ancestry.

“We have a very strong connection to the Mexican consul here in Tucson,” explains Davis. “The Mexican Consulate had been our neighbor here on Stone Avenue since 1937.” (In 2015, the consulate moved to 3915 E. Broadway Blvd.) “We have made public outreach to the Latino community a priority with this exhibit,” says Davis, “because we’re convinced that we may have an opportunity here to explore the Sephardic history and identity of Southern Arizona Crypto Jews.”

The exhibit will be on view through May 31 at the Jewish History Museum, 564 S. Stone Ave. For more information, call 670-9073 or visit jewishhistorymuseum. org.

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LOCAL Federation mitzvah project will continue at Sister Jose Women’s Center

(L-R) Tom Warne, JFSA chair; Len Kronman, Sister Jose volunteer; Stuart Mellan, JFSA president and CEO; Shelly Silverman, JFSA board chair nominee; Bruce Ash, JFSA Sister Jose project co-chair; Ori Parnaby, Jewish community concierge; Fran Katz, JFSA senior vice president; and Jane Ash, JFSA Sister Jose project co-chair, at the April 20 ribbon-cutting celebration at Sister Jose Women’s Center.

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ister Jose Women’s Center held a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new location on Park Avenue South on Thursday, April 20.

The nonprofit center is a haven for homeless women.

Its new location, a remodeled 9,000-square foot warehouse, will enable the center to serve far more women than it could at the 750-square foot house that was its former home.

Sister Jose Women’s Center is the focus of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s 70th anniversary mitzvah project.

When the Federation asked its past chairs how they wished to celebrate the anniversary, “they felt the most appropriate thing would be to pick a mitzvah project that would demonstrate how we fulfill our values,” explains Stu Mellan, JFSA president and CEO. “Mayor Jonathan Rothschild helped guide us to the issue of homelessness and the Sister Jose project,” he adds.

Bruce Ash, a former Federation chair, and his wife, Jane, stepped forward to co-chair the project, which has the support of many local Jewish organizations and congregations — some of which already were involved in helping Sister Jose.

The Federation has run donation drives for shoes and clothing, and JFSA Women’s Philanthropy donated almost $3,500 as well as purses and toiletries through its “Connections” program. Such efforts will continue, but the centerpiece of the Federation’s project, says Mellan,

will be “fixing up the outdoor area to make a very beautiful place where there will be gardening beds as well as a beautiful mural” created by the Tucson Arts Brigade’s Michael Schwartz. Members of the community have also designed tiles to adorn the facility, and another opportunity to paint tiles will be at the Israel Celebration — Family Fun Day Festival on May 7.

“What is so amazing and gratifying,” says Jean Fedigan, executive director of the Sister Jose Women’s Center, “is how the community has come together” to support the center. “That is an extraordinary gift. And the Jewish Federation has been really right in the middle of that.

“These women will be helped so much by what we are doing here,” she says. The center’s day program continues to provide “basic survival needs: a bite to eat, maybe a shower,” a robe to wear if a woman needs to wash the only clothes she owns, and a place to rest, because homeless women often spend all their time walking in order to stay safe, Fedigan explains.

But Sister Jose will also partner with a variety of social service agencies to provide behavioral and medical health services, pre-employment training, veterans’ services, safety and exercise classes, and other services “that will enrich these women’s lives beyond measure,” Fedigan says, and may help them end the cycle of homelessness.

For more information, visit srjosewomensshelter.org/ newfacility.

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With this multi-purpose room, Sister Jose Women’s Center can sleep up to 35 guests on winter nights — its former digs accommodated only 11 cots.

Sister Jose Executive Director Jean Fedigan hopes to have enough volunteers to offer overnight stays in the summer. “Heat kills as much as the winter,” she says. The center is now open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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COMMENTARY Why Marine Le Pen is confident she will be France’s next president

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upporters of Emmanuel Macron were not alone in cheering his victory Sunday in the first round of France’s presidential elections.

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who finished second in the voting, saw it as excellent news. The two will face off in the final round next month after the centrist Macron won 23 percent of the vote, 2 points ahead of Le Pen. She has called Macron her “ideal” adversary — Macron is relatively inexperienced and without the infrastructure of an established party, and despite running as an independent is nonetheless widely seen as a continuity candidate of the deeply unpopular government of President Francois Hollande.

“A runoff between a patriot such as myself and a caricature of a diehard globalist like him is ideal,” Le Pen, the leader of the Eurosceptic and anti-establishment

National Front leader Marine Le Pen addresses activists at the Espace Francois Mitterrand in Henin Beaumont, France, April 23, 2017.

National Front party, told the AFP news agency on Jan. 17. “It’s a gift.”

To be sure, the sharp-tongued and gravel-voiced Le Pen has also spoken dis-

missively of other candidates.

But when it comes to Macron, she is not alone in assessing his perceived weaknesses as a candidate. Nor is she

alone in believing that her anti-Muslim party, with its rich record of anti-Semitism, raw nationalism and xenophobia, is closer to the presidency than at any point in its history.

Macron, 39, a youthful-looking former banker who has never held elected office, has generated a huge following among professionals in France’s more affluent cities and regions. A supporter of corporate tax cuts and competitiveness in the job market, he has appealed to voters with a cosmopolitan worldview. He backs the European Union and promotes tolerance toward minorities while acting against radicalization.

But these very characteristics, as well as Macron’s image as an aloof wunderkind who owes his success to a corrupt establishment, make him deeply unpopular to a class, largely low-income, that feels disenfranchised by immigration, globalization and the European Union.

Politically this is a perilous position, as See Le Pen, page 7

Seven incredible new things the world can thank Israel for this year JTA

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o build a Jewish state in the Middle East, Israelis had to be innovators.

Some of what they’ve come up with has been used mostly by their fellow citizens — think Hebrew slang, Bamba snacks and the Iron Dome missile defense system — at least so far.

But many other Israeli creations have changed the world: drip irrigation, the

USB flash drive and actress Natalie Portman, among them.

Ahead of Yom Haatzmaut — Israel’s Independence Day, to be celebrated on May 2 — here are some incredible things Israel gave the world this year, its 69th year of independence.

A weed inhaler Puff, puff, pass the inhaler.

In November, the Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva announced it would begin marketing a medical cannabis inhaler in

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Israel that delivers precise doses of the drug. Rambam Hospital in Haifa had already been using the device for more than a year, making it the first medical center in the world to prescribe cannabis as a standard medical treatment.

Perry Davidson, the founder and CEO of Syqe Medical, which developed the inhaler, said his company plans to eventually offer it around the world.

“Israel is clearly just the start,” he told Bloomberg. “We expect to be approved for use in other countries in due course.

The U.S., as the biggest medical cannabis market, is an obvious target.”

The inhaler is far from Israel’s first marijuana-related innovation. In 1964, Raphael Mechoulan, a chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discovered tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive constituent of cannabis. He went on to identify the endocannabinoid system upon which cannabinoids act on

the body.

Last summer, the government approved a plan by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to relax some requirements for obtaining medical cannabis. And in March, it decriminalized recreational marijuana use.

A binge-worthy series on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict The Israeli TV drama “Fauda” has given the world a compelling look inside the conflict at the heart of the Jewish state.

Nearly two years after the show became a mega-hit in Israel, Netflix in December began streaming the first, and so far only season, in 130 countries. In the United States and elsewhere, English subtitles were added over the Arabic and Hebrew dialogue.

“Fauda” — Arabic for “chaos” — was informed by the Israeli military experiences of co-writers Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz. The show follows undercover Israeli soldiers as they pursue a fictional Hamas terrorist in the West Bank and also delves deep into the lives of the Palestinian characters.

Netflix previously bought the rights to other Israeli films and TV shows, including “Prisoners of War,” from which the hit U.S. show “Homeland” was adapted.

Reviewers and fans have lauded “Fauda” for offering an unusually complex and humane portrayal of Arab characters, See Israel, page 12

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witnessed in the 2016 vote in Britain to leave the European bloc and Donald Trump’s election in the United States.

Conservative writer Guy Millière is a Trump supporter who opposes Le Pen, but says Macron is an “inflatable doll” who, if elected, will guarantee “five more years of Hollande” and a continuation of the rule of a “clique that knows nothing about the difficulties of ordinary Frenchmen,” he wrote Monday on the rightist news site Dreuz. “He’s a candidate made up by billionaires.”

Macron’s supporters say that although he served two years as a Cabinet minister under Hollande, a Socialist, Macron is in fact an outsider to the political establishment and the only candidate who stands a chance to transcend bipartisan divisions in a deeply polarized society.

Macron also was inspector of finances in the French Ministry of Economy under Jaques Chirac, a center-right president.

Yet that, too, could be an Achilles heel in a country where no independent candidate has won a presidential election since the 1970s.

Relatively inexperienced in politics and lacking the support of established

party mechanisms, Macron is now up against one of France’s shrewdest and most seasoned politicians in Le Pen, a career lawmaker who heads one of her country’s most dynamic and hierarchical parties, and whose life partner and father both have devoted their adult lives to politics.

Le Pen’s family legacy, however, may play in Macron’s favor.

The daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier and open anti-Semite who she succeeded as party leader in 2011, she and her party are widely regarded as extremist and borderline neo-fascist despite her efforts to rehabilitate its image.

Francis Kalifat, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, has called Le Pen “a candidate of hate.” On Sunday, he called on voters to vote for Macron in the second round, just to keep Le Pen out of power.

Known in France as a “republican front,” such mobilizations, in which voters set aside their differences and vote for the candidate likeliest to keep National Front out of power, have cost the party many elections. In 2002, the only time National Front participated in the second round of a presidential election, the republican front resulted in Chirac beating Jean-Marie Le Pen with 82 percent of the vote.

Since then, Marine Le Pen has kicked out of the party dozens of members who were caught making anti-Semitic statements — including her father in 2015 after he said a Jewish singer should be put “in an oven.”

But in a remark that critics said echoed her father’s revisionism, she earlier this month said France was not responsible for how its police rounded up Jewish Holocaust victims for the Nazis.

Marine Le Pen has also vowed to outlaw the wearing of the kippah in public, explaining she does not regard it as a threat but will ban it nonetheless to facilitate imposing similar limitations on headgear worn by Muslims, whom she flagged as a “threat to French culture.”

Kalifat said she was a “threat to French democracy” and Moshe Kantor, the president of the European Jewish Congress, wrote in a statement Monday that the younger Le Pen is “no less dangerous than her Holocaust-denying father.”

Many in the French political establishment concur, and most of the losing candidates in Sunday’s voting urged their supporters to vote for Macron. On Sunday, both Benoit Hamon of the Socialist Party and Francois Fillon of The Republicans of former President Nicolas Sarkozy urged a united front against Le Pen.

But this year, that front has at least one major gap: Jean-Luc Melenchon, the communist candidate, who is also a Eurosceptic, did not call on his supporters to vote for Macron, whose economic and foreign policies are diametrically opposed to Melenchon’s.

Meanwhile, Le Pen is already attacking Macron on points that resonate with many of her voters. In a speech she made to supporters following the first round, she called Macron “Hollande’s extension,” saying he was guaranteed to continue the president’s policy of “mass immigration.” In Macron’s world, she added, “the rich man reigns.”

In light of the challenges facing Macron, even some of his ardent supporters spoke openly of their concern ahead of the final round.

“I don’t consider today as a victory,” Michael Amsellem, one of Macron’s many Jewish supporters, wrote on Facebook. “Having Le Pen in the second round is a tragedy.”

Citing the abstention of Melenchon and his supporters from the republican front, as well as polarization between “protectionists and internationalists, we are in a major danger zone from Le Pen,” Amsellem wrote.

“The French people are full of surprises,” he added. “This is not going to be so simple.”

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group of leaders from the local Jewish community recently received a unique opportunity to study 21st-century leadership issues from a Jewish perspective.

The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona sponsored the flagship LEAD 2017 leadership program, held Jan. 4-March 22 at Tucson Hebrew Academy and the Jewish Federation. A group of 20 men and women with leadership experience, representing diverse ages and levels of religious observance, were invited to participate. The program was fully funded by the Saul Tobin Continuity Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation.

The curriculum was developed by Erica Brown, Ph.D., author of “Inspired Jewish Leadership,” through the Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning. Amy Hirshberg Lederman, educator, author, attorney and former national director of North American Melton, led the program. “I thought it would be fantastic for our community,” she says. “We’re inspiring and empowering participants to take their own strengths and talents and bring them back to enhance and enrich the Jewish community in positive new ways.”

“The overwhelming opinion of Federation leadership and Lederman was that this was a great community investment,” says LEAD co-chair Barry Baker.

LEAD 2017 comprised eight two-hour evening sessions, preceded by dinner to allow the group to connect more closely. Each themed session began with group reading and study of selected sacred Jewish texts.

“One topic was ‘Effective Communications,’” says Lederman. “We’d study a text in the Torah about communication — for instance, between Moses and G-d.”

After small-group discussions, the group explored ways to apply Jewish wisdom to modern leadership situations through contemporary case studies.

“Our Jewish wisdom can be highly relevant in guiding us when we’re in leadership situations, such as on boards or committees,” says Lederman. “It’s pragmatic as well as philosophical and spiritual — it’s a winning combination that touches the mind, spirit and heart.”

Josh Hurand, MA, LCSW, a behavioral health therapist in the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System, and a member of Congregation Anshei Israel, participated in LEAD 2017. As a co-chair of the JFSA Ben-Gurion Society, he is involved in young leadership, and he is a member of the development council at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

The LEAD program “provided a safe space for diverse voices,” he says. “It demonstrated the importance of listening and discussing deeply, even when people disagree. Part of Amy’s skill as a teacher is her flexibility with the class dynamic. It’s not easy handling a roomful of Jews with different opinions. I think we all ended up valuing each other and the community more.

“The curriculum was fresh, blending text from the Talmud and Torah and applying the texts to current issues in leadership and management. The first text was Moses being chosen by G-d as leader, and despite his initial reluctance to serve, with G-d’s help, he stepped up for the Jewish people. I was inspired by Moses’ hu-

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mility, and appreciated the program’s commitment to the value of listening. The texts we reviewed about King David demonstrated that he was a much different leader than Moses — but they both served important leadership roles in our history.”

“LEAD did not meet my expectations — it exceeded them,” says LEAD 2017 participant Jeremy Lite. A partner in the energy and environmental law group at Quarles & Brady LLP, Lite is vice president/secretary of the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona and president of Congregation Young Israel of Tucson. “I was especially happy that the course was taught as a discussion and not as a lecture. Participants were able to express unique views and strategies for effective leadership. The course helped me to refine my approach to leadership, with an emphasis on effective communication. My most valuable takeaway was to be reminded of the incredible strength we have in terms of young leaders in this community.”

The LEAD program aims to create enduring contacts among local Jewish leaders, says Baker. “The participants were provided new tools to improve communications with others, tackle difficult problems, and empower others. The biggest benefit to the Jewish community is the connections that were made between this group of people and the resources we now provide to each other to tackle challenges we face within our Jewish community.”

Making LEAD available to Jewish community leaders, including millennials, reflects one of the curriculum topics, succession planning, says Lederman. “Every good leader tries to create leaders to follow in their footsteps. We can’t rely on the past; we have to develop a succession plan. We’re trying to constantly enhance our community, and this will definitely have a ripple effect in personal lives and the Jewish community for the future.”

Kaye Patchett is a freelance writer and editor in Tucson.

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JLTC marks 13 years of advocacy, diversity

The Jewish-Latino Teen Coalition at the Newseum, a museum that promotes free expression and five freedoms of the First Amendment, in Washington, D.C., during their annual trip to Congress, April 2, 2017. Standing (L-R): Megan Ramirez, Ellie Friedman, Aliya Markowitz, Chloe Goorman, Lisa Kondrat, Aaron Green, Max Silverman, Nicolas Rios, Hannah Weisman, Lew Hamburger; kneeling: Shari Gootter with Indy, Francisco Lopez

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obbying in Washington, D.C., for an increase in protections for immigrant families was an invigorating experience, says Nicolas Rios, a high school student and member of Tucson’s Jewish-Latino Teen Coalition.

Rios, 16, a junior at BASIS Tucson North, heard about the JLTC from his college preparatory counselor.

Growing up in Southern Arizona sparked Rios’ interest in politics, as well as immigration and border-related issues, he says. Having the opportunity to engage with another dominant ethnic and religious group in Tucson piqued his interest in the JLTC. “I had a very positive experience overall and there’s not too many opportunities like it, so I was really excited to be able do this sort of program,” says Rios.

Each year, high school sophomores and juniors throughout Tucson apply for the JLTC. Once selected, the local students choose a political topic to study, and end the yearlong program by lobbying Congress. The students meet every Sunday leading up to the trip, and are briefed on their chosen topic by local professionals.

The unique program is a joint effort of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the office of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva.

The group will celebrate its 13th year at a “B’nai Mitzvah” party on Sunday, April 30. The dessert and coffee event will be held at the Most Holy Trinity Parish, 1300 N. Greasewood Road, from 3-5 p.m. The event will feature guest speakers including past alumni, a representative from Grijalva’s office and Mayor

Jonathan Rothschild.

The cultural aspect of the group provided many insights, Rios says. “Being able to see the similarities between some Jewish traditions and Latino, or Catholic, traditions — that was very eye-opening.”

Rios comes from a law enforcement background and has a few family members who serve as customs officers. This year, Rios joined a border patrol program in order to get a firsthand experience of immigration enforcement.

He wants to study international relations and foreign policy in college, and hopes to bring that skill set back to Arizona after graduation.

Shari Gootter, a local therapist and JLTC mentor, became involved with the group 11 years ago via a program coordination position with the Federation’s JCRC. Even as Gootter decided to shift her professional focus toward her private practice, limiting her time, she stayed connected to the group.

“This is one program I could not let go of,” says Gootter. “It’s a unique program in so many ways, and it allows the students an opportunity that I don’t think exists in any other way.”

The program introduces students to a multitude of topics ranging from cultural awareness to leadership training and political advocacy, Gootter says.

Another strength of the program is that students are drawn from high schools throughout Tucson. This year’s group represents seven different schools across the city, she says, which only adds to the cultural and socioeconomic diversity.

“There’s a lot of development there, and it’s the exposure to different cultural pieces,” she says. “They grow personally and then they grow as a group.”

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LOCAL GV ethical will class planned Hillel awards scholarship In conjunction with Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Beth Shalom Temple Center in Green Valley will present a free ethical will workshop for the Jewish community, led by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, on Tuesday, May 9, 10 a.m.-noon.

Unlike a medical directive or living will, or a will detailing bequests of property, “writing an ethical will is a process of life review, celebration and legacy,” says Aaron, spiritual leader of Congregation Chaverim and a member of the JFCS board.

“Writing an ethical will is an opportunity to examine our lives, to notice what we hold as precious and meaningful at the core of our beings. What are the values that we have treasured in our living? Who are the people who have shown us the way? How have our mistakes shaped and enlivened us?” says Aaron.

Beth Shalom Temple Center is located at 1751 N. Rio Mayo. Light refreshments will be served. A video introduction to ethical wills and a workbook are available at jfcstucson.org/services/ethical-will.

RSVP to Ruth Barwick at rbarwick16@gmail.com or 648-6690.

JFSA proposes amendments The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona proposes amendments to its constitution, which will be voted upon by its membership at its annual meeting, May 11 at 7 p.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. As required by the constitution, these changes are available for review at jfsa.org/constitutionamendments.

It is proposed that the constitution become two documents as follows: 1) A constitution, which can be amended by the membership of the Federation and which defines the purposes of the Federation and its basic structure.

2) Bylaws, which can be amended by the board of directors and which address the structure of the board and its duties in more detail.

The concept is that the constitution would stand the test of time, and would rarely require amendment. The bylaws may be amended by the board as needed.

Immigration topic for forum The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona will hold a panel discussion on the immigration crisis in Southern Arizona at its Spring Leaders Forum on Friday, April 28.

The breakfast event will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, with the program beginning at 8 a.m.

Panelists will include Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild; Ricardo Pineda Albarrán, cónsul of México in Tucson; Alan Bennett, immigration attorney; Maria Vianey Cardenas, Arizona League of United Latin American Citizens immigration chair; Bob Feinman, vice chair of Humane Borders; and Francisco Salcido, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals student recipient and community activist.

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Sophie Loeb, a secondyear medical student at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, has a strong commitment to care for those in her own backyard.

Loeb is the 2017 recipient of the Shirley Curson Medical Scholarship from the UA Hillel Foundation.

The scholarship recognizes the commitment of a student, both prior to and during their first years of medical school, to Jewish values and community service.

“I take pride in my faith and believe so many of the values I possess as a human being come from my upbringing and being raised Jewish,” Loeb said. “One of the most important Jewish values to me is that of performing acts of loving kindness. As a physician, I hope to hold true to this and treat each patient with the intent of performing these acts.”

The merit-based scholarship helps fund Jewish second-year medical students attending the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix or Tucson.

“I am truly humbled to be the recipient of this scholarship,” Loeb said. “I’m so grateful to be able to represent my school and my Jewish community in this way.”

The scholarship applies to the student’s third and fourth years of medical school.

A committee selected Loeb "from among several qualified and exemplary candidates,” said Nancy Koff, a Hillel board member.

Loeb’s medical studies began with her desire to help others.

“My initial interest in becoming a physician didn’t stem from my love of science or the thrill of curing someone of a disease,” Loeb said. “Although I want to use medicine to improve upon the world, my personal desire comes from my innate love of children and my involvement in families’ lives. I want to be a part of peoples’ lives and help them help themselves through long-term relationships with patients and families.”

Prior to medical school, Loeb worked as an assistant teacher at a Jewish preschool and was a program supervisor for a camp at The Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center. As a medical student, she has continued to help others within the Phoenix and Jewish community by participating in Community Health Initiative – Phoenix programs such as the Juntos Por la Salud Mobile Health Unit, which provides access to health services and promotes a healthy lifestyle to underserved people in Maricopa County. She also serves as co-president of the College’s Jewish Medical Student Association, which focuses on bringing together Jewish medical students and faculty at the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Loeb hopes to practice in Arizona at some point after her residency, but wherever she is, she said, she'll carry pride in her community with her.

NEWS BRIEFS President Donald Trump likely will make his

first visit to Israel at the end of next month.

Israeli and Trump administration officials are currently in “advanced talks” about a visit on May 21, before Trump’s scheduled European tour or at the end of the month at the conclusion of that visit, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Wednesday.

The visit will come shortly after Trump meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on May 3 in Washington, D.C. Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in February.

Trump is seeking “a conflict-ending settlement between the Palestinians and Israel,” the president’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, said last week in confirming Abbas’ visit.

The British government has rejected a Pales-

tinian request to apologize for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which led in part to the creation of Israel.

The British government sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian Authority saying it would not apologize for the statement, as called for by P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas in an address to the General Assembly in September, Reuters reported. The news agency cited Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian ambassador to Britain, who told the Voice of Palestine Radio of the refusal in an interview Tuesday.

Britain will recognize the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration with celebrations in November together with Israeli officials.

The British government this week responded to a petition filed with the British Parliament calling on the government to apologize for the statement and “lead attempts to reach a solution that ensures justice for the Palestinian people.” More than 13,000 people signed the petition, which needs 100,000 signatures by May 3 in order for the Parliament to consider it for debate.

“The Balfour Declaration is an historic statement for which HMG (Her Majesty’s Government) does not intend to apologize. We are proud of our role in creating the State of Israel. The task now is to encourage moves towards peace,” the government’s response read.

“The Declaration was written in a world of competing imperial powers, in the midst of the First World War and in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. In that context, establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in the land to which they had such strong historical and religious ties was the right and moral thing to do, particularly against the background of centuries of persecution,” the response said. It continued: “Much has happened since 1917. We recognize that the Declaration should have called for the protection of political rights of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine, particularly their right to self-determination. However, the important thing now is to look forward and establish security and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians through a lasting peace.”

The petition called for a two-state solution and for negotiations conducted directly between Israel and the Palestinians, “but with appropriate support from the international community.”

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even terrorists, and for capturing the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

Loaded with Arab actors, the show has won fans on both sides of the Green Line that demarcates the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. “A sad reality,” one Arab Israeli viewer wrote on the official “Fauda” Facebook page. “I hope the day will come when Arab and Jews can live together in peace.”

A popular sport for middle-aged women Popularized by Israeli moms in 2005, the women’s sport of catchball has recently gone global.

Catchball is like volleyball, but easier, because catching and throwing replaces bumping, setting and spiking. Israeli women adapted the sport from Newcomb, which some Americans may know from summer camp or gym class.

Meanwhile, catchball leagues in Israel boast more than 12,000 female members, almost all of them over 30. That is

two worlds. As NPR’s pop culture critic John Powers put it, “Cedar cheerfully skewers Israeli politics and its emotional relationship to American Jewry in a way that U.S. directors dare not.”

The director doesn’t worry whether the film is “good for the Jews,” Powers noted.

For better or worse, Gere apparently has no such hang-ups either. In Jerusalem last month for the local premiere of “Norman,” Gere told Haaretz that Israel’s settlements in the West Bank are “an absurd provocation” and “this occupation is destroying everyone.”

“Norman” will be at The Loft Cinema in Tucson beginning May 19.

Richard Gere playing a Jewish schlub Richard Gere, a famously suave gentile, stars as a schlubby Jewish schemer in “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.”

Perhaps only Israeli director Joseph Cedar could have given the world such a gift. The bitingly funny film follows Norman Oppenheimer as he aspires to serve as a fixer between New York’s Jewish community, into which Cedar was born, and Jerusalem, where he was raised.

Cedar knowingly — and often humorously — navigates the gaps between the

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A match at the Israeli catchball tournament in Kfar Saba, Feb. 21, 2017

twice as many adult women as belong to basketball, soccer, volleyball and tennis leagues combined, according to data from Israel’s Culture and Sport Ministry.

“It’s like a disease among middle-aged women here,” said Naor Galili, the director-general of the Maccabi sports association in Israel. “We like it. We love it. We fully support it.”

The Israeli Catchball Association in recent years has promoted catchball in more than half a dozen other countries and helped launch a sister association in the United States. At the July Maccabiah Games, an Olympics-style event for Jewish athletes held every four years, an exhibition tournament will features dozens of teams from Israel, along with squads from Boston, London and Berlin.

Richard Gere stars as Norman Oppenheimer in ‘Norman.’

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From left: Amnon Shahua, chairman and chief technology officer of Mobileye; Klaus Froehlich, member of the management board at BMW, and Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., at a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 4, 2017.

Treatment for thousands of wounded Syrians Officially, Israel has maintained a policy of non-intervention in the Syrian war and has not taken in any refugees. But the Jewish state has still managed to offer some help to its northern neighbors.

Since early 2013, the Israeli army has taken in some 3,000 wounded Syrians for treatment. Generally working at night, soldiers have provided initial medical care and then evacuated the wounded to nearby hospitals.

The numbers are a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands who have been killed and wounded in the fighting between soldiers loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebel groups. But they are significant to those whose limbs and lives have been saved, including hundreds of children.

During a visit this month to the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin promised the country would “continue to do everything it can with responsibility and wisdom in order to alleviate the suffering of the people who experience daily slaughter here on the other side of the border.”

Israeli civilians have donated hundreds of thousands of shekels to help Syrian refugees, and there has been official talk of accepting 100 orphans, though nothing has come of it.

Self-driving cars Your next car may very well come with an Israeli driver, though it won’t be human.

The U.S. chipmaker Intel last month bought Israel’s driverless technology company Mobileye for $15.3 billion, the largest-ever purchase of a high-tech company in this country. In a joint announcement, the companies said the deal “is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider in the fast-growing market for highly and fully autonomous vehicles.”

Founded in 1999, Mobileye has supplied integrated cameras, chips and software for driver-assist systems — the

building blocks for self-driving cars — to more than two dozen vehicle manufacturers. The company has already taken over 70 percent of the global market for driver-assistance and anti-collision systems. Mobileye was a supplier of vision systems to Tesla until the companies broke up last summer after a man died in a crash while his Tesla Model S was on autopilot.

Co-founder and CEO Ziv Aviram has said Mobileye, with its 660 employees, will remain centered in Israel, from where it will develop Intel’s first driverless car.

A Wonder Woman with weapons training After first playing Wonder Woman in last year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” Israeli actress Gal Gadot will appear in her own DC Comics film this summer.

As a former Israeli soldier, Gadot has brought some unique skills to the role of Amazonian superhero. In March 2016, she talked to ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel about how her army service, saying, “The military gave me good training for Hollywood.”

In her previous “Fast and Furious” appearances (in which she plays an exMossad agent), the one-time Miss Israel impressed director Justin Lin with her knowledge of weapons and performed her own stunts for the franchise. She also showed off her fighting abilities in last year’s “Keeping Up with the Joneses” as the better half of a suburban secret agent couple.

While Gadot’s films haven’t exactly been critically acclaimed, she has remained a national hero. Israelis have widely admired her for fulfilling her mandatory military service while fellow Israeli swimsuit model Bar Refaeli has taken some heat for avoiding enlistment.

Gadot is the first to play Wonder Woman on the big screen. Since superhero franchises never seem to end, Gadot — who has two daughters with husband Yaron Varsan, an Israeli real estate developer — is set to play the character in at least two more films this year.

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DINING OUT Local chefs dish on dream dinners for mom and the vegetable joys of spring PHYLLIS BRAUN

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h, asparagus! As Mother’s Day approaches, local chefs and restaurateurs are turning their thoughts to burgeoning spring produce — and time spent in the kitchen with their mothers and grandmothers.

“I’m excited to cook with artichokes, asparagus and peas,” says Tyler Fenton, chef/co-owner at Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink. “My favorite method of cooking is over a live fire, and these three spring ingredients are insanely good when fire roasted. They need very little else to make them special.”

Most chefs will be busy in their restaurant kitchens on Mother’s Day — it’s the most popular day to dine out — but it is fun to imagine what they’d whip up just for mom.

Fenton says that instead of cooking for his mother on Mother’s Day, they’d make something together, since she loves to learn new dishes. They’d keep it light, perhaps a simple pasta dish with spring vegetables. He recalls spending time with his mother’s large Italian family, where

pasta dinners brought everyone together.

“I think those dinners planted in me a love of food from a young age, which has grown into a career.”

Chef Massimo Tenino says it was his grandmother who “taught me the importance of using good quality ingredients, and how good food brings people and families together.”

Tenino also gives vegetables the woodfire treatment, making the Verdure Miste, a vegetable assortment, one of the most popular dishes at his Tavolino Ristorante Italiano. “I am also excited to use fresh peaches, wood-fired, and homemade vanilla gelato, simple and delicious,” he says.

For his mother, “for sure I would make fresh pasta, heart-shaped ravioli filled with ricotta and spinach. Fresh pasta has always been part of special occasions in my life, and it takes love and time to make good ravioli pasta.”

Claire Johnson of Claire’s Café and Art Gallery would make the wonderful matzah ball soup she learned at her mother’s knee.

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Sigret Thompson, chef/co-owner at The Tasteful Kitchen, says her homage to her mother would be the chickpea crepes currently on the restaurant menu, served with a cauliflower Hollandaise sauce and fresh asparagus. “My mom would make crepes for me when I was a kid,” she says.

The Tasteful Kitchen’s theme is “modern vegetarian cuisine for everyone,” and Thompson delights in the locally grown ingredients available in springtime, including fennel, leeks, turnips, beets and spring onions. A 10-course tasting dinner on April 30 will feature these and other seasonal vegetables, she says.

Susan Fulton of Gourmet Girls Gluten Free Bakery/Bistro is grateful that her mother encouraged her to take over the planning and cooking of family meals at a young age. “She was always open to my experiments!”

This spring, Fulton is energized by the fresh organically grown ingredients available from farmer’s markets. “There’s always something new and exciting to try,” she says.

Gus Gerson, chef/owner of Gusto Osteria, is planning to cook for his motherin-law on Mother’s Day. “We will enjoy some grilled items such as asparagus, potatoes, perhaps a steak.”

Gerson remembers helping his grandmother cook. “As far as I can remember back until the time she passed away, my grandma was always baking and preparing amazing things in her kitchen. She would let me help, but we had to learn how things were done the right way.

From the beginning, cleanliness and organization were instilled; these are important factors in my restaurant today.”

Sunny Holliday, chef/owner of Lovin’ Spoonfuls, says her mother liked quiche, so she’d prepare a spinach-mushroom quiche with a fresh fruit salad and ovenroasted potatoes.

Holliday’s mother loved to cook — “I inherited that gene,” she says — but she wanted her daughter to become a doctor.

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and Art Gallery.

Claire Johnson, an Illinois native born into a family of creative cooks, began her culinary career as a produce buyer and founded an organic food co-op on Chicago’s north side. She relocated to Arizona in 1980 and became the head chef at the Blue Willow, followed by cooking stints at Oro Valley Country Club, Loews Ventana and C.B. Rye. In 1986, Claire bought Dyna Café and transformed it into the present day Claire’s Café

ECLECTIC CAFÉ MARK SMITH, owner Born and raised in Tucson, Mark Smith is a Catalina High School graduate. He started working in restaurants as a teenager and took that training to open the Eclectic Café in October 1980 when he was 24.

Smith brings a variety of flavors to Eclectic Café’s menu so that the whole family can be satisfied. He says the secret to the restaurant business is fresh ingredients, consistency and fast, friendly service. His goal is to make every guest feel special when they walk through the doors. Smith has enjoyed seeing the generations of families come through the doors of the café and watching the staff go from high school graduates to college graduates to professionals in the work force. In his free time, Smith enjoys playing tennis, traveling and, no surprise, cooking!

EL CISNE PHIL and GEORGE FERRANTI, co-owners Phil Ferranti opened El Cisne Restaurant with his son, George, and team of Nancy Carnero and Alicia Gastelum in January 2013 at Swan and Sunrise (El Cisne means “The Swan” in Spanish). They added to the excitement of the now 25-year tradition by reuniting with many more staff members from Phil’s previous establishment, La Placita Café

in the Plaza Palomino.

El Cisne offers “Platillos de la Sala,” dining-room dishes, in a relaxed yet elegant atmosphere. El Cisne is also a great place for lunch or happy hour cocktails at “The Black Swan Tequila Bar.”

GOURMET GIRLS GLUTEN FREE BAKERY/BISTRO MARY STEIGER and SUSAN FULTON, chef/owners Mary Steiger started cooking as a child and by the time she was 7, knew she wanted to be a baker when she grew up. Susan Fulton came from a family with a passion for food and always fantasized about owning a restaurant. The two traveled different roads until their paths met seven years ago in Tucson, where they discovered a mutual desire to promote wellness through food choices. The dedicated, certified gluten-free bakery/bistro is the result of their collaboration.

GUSTO OSTERIA GLENN “GUS” GERSON, owner Gusto Osteria owner/operator Glenn “Gus” Gerson has been in the restaurant business for over 20 years. Originally from Ohio, Gus came to Tucson after service in the Navy and began with Bobby Mcgee’s in his college days. Gus worked with Joey Scordato at Scordato’s on Broadway, and stayed on when it became Olson’s on Broadway. After a stretch in the advertising business, Gus rejoined Joe at Giuseppe’s in Tucson’s Northwest before bringing a similar home style Italian concept to Tucson’s East Side with Gusto Osteria.

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DINING GUIDE ‘Nosh & More’ furnishes fun for Jewish foodies Looking to give your mom a little extra love on Mother’s Day? If she’s a foodie — or you are — the “Nosh & More” section of jewishtucson.org can provide sweet and savory inspiration, with recipes contributed by members of the local Jewish community. Reading the accompanying “Why I Love this Recipe” comments adds to the fun.

New in the dessert category is “Grandma Molly’s Seven Layer Bars,” made with graham crackers, coconut flakes, butterscotch chips and walnuts.

“Letter or Crescent Cookies” will let

you spell out a message to mom in sweet, nutty dough — but don’t forget to follow Aunt Fannie’s tip to work quickly, before the butter melts.

And, with fresh berries in season, it’s a great time to try “Ellen’s Cheesecake.”

Not big on sweets? Check out “Dill Pickles,” “Israeli Marduma” — a spicy cold salad or spread, or the decidedly untraditional “Wasabi Mashed Potatoes.”

Nosh & More can also tempt you with soups, main dishes, holiday favorites and more, including four different varieties of kugel!

LOVIN’ SPOONFULS Sunny Holliday, chef/owner Sunny Holliday was raised in a kosher home in Flushing, N.Y. She majored in chemistry at Buffalo State University and worked at Mobil Oil Corporation for 13 years before moving to Tucson, where she earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Arizona and worked in the fields of science and technology. Along with her affinity for science, Holliday nurtured a lifelong love of cooking. When she adopted a plantbased lifestyle, she decided opening a restaurant would be the best way to share that message. Lovin’ Spoonfuls, which features a plant-based menu, has won numerous awards since it opened in 2006.

MAMA’S FAMOUS PIZZA & HEROES ELEANOR and JOE SPINA Eleanor and Joe Spina, aka Mama and Pop, were the inspiration behind Mama’s Famous Pizza & Heroes, a Tucson tradition for more than two decades.

When Eleanor and Joe retired from New York City to Tucson in 1975, their children, Joe Jr., Vinnie and Kathryn, soon decided to join them. Trading the construction business for pizza, they successfully tested their restaurant concept in New York before moving west to open the first Mama’s in Tucson in 1981. Choosing a name was easy: the word “Mama” represents family, home and love. The restaurant is still run by Eleanor and Joe’s children and grandchildren.

PIONIC PIZZA & PASTA SCOTT SINCLAIR, co-owner Three generations of the Sinclair/Nathanson family created Pionic as a joint venture for grandfather/grandson bonding.

Scott Sinclair had a vision for a restaurant where everyone can get what they like. Whether a vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or a carnivore, everyone can create what they like. Because at Pionic, you’re the chef!

REILLY CRAFT PIZZA & DRINK TYLER FENTON, chef/co-owner Tyler Fenton, at 26 years old, is a primarily self-taught restaurateur. He loves to experiment with new ingredients, both in the kitchen and behind the bar. As a result, his menu at Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink remains dynamic as Tyler constantly strives for culinary perfection.

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Instead, Holliday was a chemist and engineer for many years until she adopted a plant-based lifestyle. “I decided what I really wanted to do was promote veganism, a plant-based diet, and it would be easier for me to do that as a restaurateur than as an engineer.”

Holliday’s favorite fresh herb is basil, which works well in everything from beverages to Italian and Thai dishes. Basil can enhance almost anything, she says, “and when it is fresh, it is orders of magnitude better.”

Jason McCarty, a managing partner at Eclectic Cafe, would make his wife the beneficiary of his Mother’s Day scenario. “The entree would be roasted rack of lamb because it’s my wife’s favorite. I would serve it with sautéed asparagus with slivered almonds and herb rice,” he says, and he’d finish the meal with chocolate mousse, which pairs well with lamb and red wine.

McCarty’s mother worked two jobs when he was growing up, so he had plenty of time to experiment in the kitchen.

“I was able to figure out what went well together and what didn’t. I quickly discovered that nothing is better for me than contrasting flavors like sweet and salty.”

For McCarty, “Spring is all about fresh fruits and vegetables. Everything is in bloom! I really enjoy putting together a fresh salad with raw vegetables, a little fresh fruit, cheese, nuts and mixed greens. The greens this time of year are delicious!”

Mama’s Famous Pizza & Heroes coowner Joe Spina, Jr., says “Spring is especially exciting because of the availability of fresh, locally grown vegetables — almost any veggie works great on pizza! But what initially comes to my mind is fresh arugula, spinach, eggplant, basil, and other wonderful ingredients that [my brother] Vinnie grows fresh in his garden right here on the north side of Tucson.”

Pasta would be on Spina’s imaginary Mother’s Day menu. “Pasta is delicious, especially when we use mama’s authentic Sicilian marinara sauce recipe,” he says.

“Prep time for most pasta dishes is minimal, and that would afford me the maximum amount of time to chat with mom (if she wasn’t so busy in heaven) and give her the love she so deserves.”

Mama’s was, of course, inspired by his mother. “Mama was born in 1914 to two Sicilian immigrants. She was one of 13 children! As one of the older girls, she was taken out of school in the seventh grade, so that she could learn to cook and help her mother care for her younger broth-

ers and sisters,” he explains. “Mama went on to marry our dad and (in our eyes) was the best Italian cook ever! When my brother Vinnie, our sister Kathryn and I were old enough to fend for ourselves, mama went to work as a waitress in Hempstead, N.Y., to help our dad with the household bills. It was Vinnie’s idea to go into the restaurant business as a way of honoring our mom.”

George Ferranti, co-owner of El Cisne Restaurante, gets excited when he talks about serving red snapper — or huachinango, as he calls it — on Mother’s Day. “It’s going to be fresh, fresh, fresh,” he says, explaining that the dense fish that can be served as medallions or as a fried whole fish. But for his mother, his choice might be “a fun dish called chile en nogada,” a poblano chile stuffed with ground sirloin, raisins, walnuts and Mexican spices, covered with an almond nougat sauce topped with pomegranate seeds.

“I claim to have five mothers,” says Ferranti, and the one he credits with having the most influence on El Cisne is “my madrina, Nancy Carnero — she’s my godmother, she’s the general manager” who has been with the restaurant for 22 years. “She is highly experienced in the front end but also in the back end — she’s a Peruvian chef,” and Peru, he says, “is pretty much the epicenter of culinary

fusion in the world today. She definitely influences a lot of our decisions through our cooking techniques and through our flavor profiles.”

Scott Sinclair, co-owner of Pionic Pizza, claims that his grandma is “the best cook on earth,” waxing rhapsodic about her matzah ball soup, her chicken schnitzel, and especially her noodle kugel.

For his mother, a vegetarian who likes to keep things healthful, he’d serve a simple, fresh salad for Mother’s Day, with roasted red peppers, artichoke hearts, cherry tomatoes and balsamic dressing.

While cooking is not her forte, his mother shines on the restaurant’s business end.

“I really love working with her,” he says.

“She taught me a lot about the numbers, about management” and about having high standards for the day-to-day operations of the restaurant.

Many of Pionic’s ingredients are especially tasty in springtime, such as the arugula and fresh basil the restaurant offers as “after bakes,” but Sinclair is looking forward to a new pizza that has yet to be designed. He explains that as a fundraiser, the Humane Society of Southern Arizona will be auctioning the right to design a pizza with Pionic. The Humane Society will also get a portion of the proceeds from the pizza’s sales. Once it’s been designed, Sinclair will get to name the new creation.

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NATIONAL What North Korea crisis tells us about Iran nuclear deal

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Sanctions relief In both the North Korea and Iran cases, some sanctions relief was up front — critics say that was a recipe for failure. With North Korea, the United States agreed to deliver 500,000 tons of oil to the cash-starved nation.

(There were other goodies, but these were attached to progress in the dismantling of its nuclear capacity.)

In the Iran deal, the U.S. agreed to unfreeze American-based Iranian assets held since the 1978 revolution, amounting to $400 million, and to lift secondary sanctions targeting businesses in other countries that deal with Iran. (Bans on U.S. business with Iran mostly remain in place.)

It’s not clear yet what benefit Iran accrues from the lifting of the secondary sanctions — estimates vary wildly between $40 billion and $150 billion.

In addition, non-nuclear sanctions — relating to Iran’s backing for terrorism and its human rights abuses — remain in place.

“Tillerson is reflecting concerns that the Iran deal

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WASHINGTON he Trump administration last week endorsed a narrative long promoted by critics of the Iran nuclear deal: It’s North Korea all over again.

“An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea, and take the world along with it,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday at a press availability. He was explaining why President Donald Trump had ordered a review of the Iran nuclear deal reached by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

“The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach,” Tillerson said.

“Strategic patience” is a rubbery term that critics have applied loosely to presidents — Republican and Democratic — who do not strike back swiftly at evidence of nascent rogue weapons-of-mass-destruction programs, instead preferring diplomatic and economic pressure.

It has been applied to North Korea and the policy first instituted by the Clinton administration in 1994, when it signed the Agreed Framework with that country, but also to how President George W. Bush attempted to renegotiate a North Korea deal in the mid-2000s, and to the chemical weapons removal pact Obama negotiated with Russia and Syria in 2013.

The North Korea framework collapsed in the early 2000s, during the Bush administration, and in 2006, North Korea tested a nuclear device. Syria’s apparent use of sarin gas in an attack earlier this month that killed 89 civilians in rebel-held territory suggested that the 2013 removal of chemical weapons was not fully implemented.

Tillerson’s implication: Without a thorough review of the nuclear deal, Iran could also one day surprise the world with a nuclear test.

Is he right? It’s obviously too soon to say. But here are some ways the Iran deal is similar to its failed North Korea predecessor — and ways it is different.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrives for a military parade in Pyongyang, April 15, 2017. The picture was released the following day by the state's Korean Central News Agency.

has many of the same inherent flaws as the Agreed Framework and may end up in the same scenario,” said Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the preeminent think tank opposing the Iran deal.

Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, which backed the Iran deal, said that unlike in the North Korea deal, the Iran agreement has “snap-back” provisions that allow the United States to reimpose the sanctions should Iran ever be in violation.

Critics of the Iran deal counter that while the United States may snap back the sanctions, many other nations that were part of the alliance that imposed international sanctions on Iran in 2011 would not. Deal defenders say the prospect of the United States reimposing sanctions on Iran, even if it does so alone, is enough to keep Iran from breaking the agreement.

Inspections The North Korea deal required the dismantling of three nuclear reactors, one completed and two under construction.

The Iran pact requires 24/7 access to known enrichment facilities and allows inspectors to demand access — albeit with a waiting period of 24 days — at any other facility they suspect of nuclear weapons activity.

Tillerson on the day he announced the review of the deal also affirmed that Iran was in compliance.

The North Korea agreement referred only in vague terms to inspections beyond the three facilities and did not explicitly count out weapons-enriched uranium, although its ban was certainly implied in the endgame — a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. (The reactors that were shut down enriched plutonium.) The North Koreans fiercely resisted inspections beyond the three facilities.

The difficulty is not in detecting whether a nation is violating the agreement — intelligence agencies and satellite surveillance have been proficient at tracking down violations. It was North Korea’s attempt to secretly enrich uranium in the early 2000s that precipitated the collapse of the deal, and the Obama administration exposed the existence of a secret uranium enrichment plant in Fordow, Iran, in 2009 based on intelligence reports.

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MOTHER’S DAY A treasure trove of sweet Mother’s Day memories: It’s all in the cards HELEN ZEGERMAN SCHWIMMER Special to the AJP

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here can you find the memories of a lifetime?

They are stored in several large plastic containers neatly arranged on the shelves in my den. The time has come to revisit these mementos and as I begin to wade through more than 60 years of birthday, anniversary and holiday cards a pattern emerges.

Young married friends wish me a happy birthday. A few years later their children’s names have been added to their greetings. Anniversary cards from my parents and in-laws are signed mom and dad. And then, just mom.

Marriages add, deaths and divorces subtract and births change the equation yet again.

And suddenly, tucked in between the stack of greetings I come upon a decades old Mother’s Day card.

Millennials mistakenly think they have a monopoly on recycling but my mother came from a generation who couldn’t tolerate waste. On May 13, 1990 my children and I gave my mother a large, elaborately decorated Mother’s Day card. The following year she took it out of the drawer, where she kept her treasured old cards that she often reread like a favorite book, and she insisted we regift this previous year’s card. We dutifully added the new date, along with a brief note, and a tradition was born.

As I open the floral cover the long list of dates reads

A recycled card became a treasured tradition.

like a diary that has recorded the milestones in our lives.

My father passed away in the beginning of 1992, so that year she celebrated motherhood without her partner for the first time in 50 years. In 1999, after I began to study Hebrew, I signed my Jewish name, Chaya Minna.

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in our lives as new people joined our growing family circle. In 2006, after our oldest son married, we added our daughter-in-law’s name; their newborn’s name in 2007, along with our new son-in-law; the following year, 2008, my youngest daughter-in-law. The last recorded date was May 10, 2009. We had reached the bottom of the page, never realizing that this would be the very last entry. My mother passed away the following September.

The second Sunday in May officially became Mother’s Day when the U.S. Congress passed a law on May 8, 1914. I didn’t start observing this secular holiday until I began attending public school but as I became more knowledgeable about our own heritage I realized that in our tradition every day is Mother’s Day, reflecting the fifth commandment: “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days will be lengthened upon the land that Hashem, your God, gives you.” (Exodus 20:12) As I sift through my enormous collection of greeting cards that evoke cherished memories of loved ones, I think about my grandchildren who have been raised on emails, Facebook posts, Instagrams and Tweets and realize that ours may be the very last generation who will experience the joy of physically holding a loving greeting from the past forever etched in ink.

Helen Zegerman Schwimmer is the author of the acclaimed anthology, “Like the Stars of the Heavens.” This article appears in her new book, “The Wedding Gown that Made History and Other Stories," available in June on amazon.com. Visit her website at Helenschwimmer.com.

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MOTHER’S DAY JWI aims to bring comfort to women living in domestic violence shelters on Mother’s Day More than 40,000 women and children find safety in domestic violence shelters every day. Since 1999, Jewish Women International’s Flower Project has delivered bouquets of flowers and financial literacy materials to domestic violence shelters on Mother’s Day, showing women fleeing violence that they are remembered and loved, and providing them with resources to help them rebuild their lives and create safe homes for their children.

For each $25 contribution to the Flower Project, JWI will send a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day card — either a paper card or an e-card — to the honoree of the sender’s choosing. Proceeds from the sales of cards are used to send flowers and financial literacy resources to 200 domestic violence shelters across the country.

In Tucson, Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse is a recipient of the program.

“Our Mother’s Day Flower Project gives women living in domestic violence shelters a chance to spend a moment away from the daily worries of housing, safety, employment, and their health and well-being, by lifting their spirits and letting them know that people they’ve never met before are thinking about them,” says Vivian Bass, chair of JWI’s board of trustees. “These survivors strive every day to build better lives for themselves despite countless obstacles and overwhelming adversity.

A bouquet of vibrant flowers can mean the world for women who are most in need of love.”

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14.

JWI also supports safe spaces for women and children through its National Library Initiative, which establishes children’s libraries in homeless and domestic violence shelters.

For more information, visit jwi.org/ flowerproject or call (800) 343-2823.

Tucson Pops free concerts to start Mother’s Day Mother’s Day, May 14 marks the opening of the 63rd season of Tucson Pops Concerts in the Park. Under the direction of Maestro László Veres, the Tucson Pops Orchestra will perform five “Music under the Stars™” concerts on Sundays, May 14-June 11, at 7 p.m. at the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center in Reid Park.

The May 14 concert will feature young talents Kai Skaggs, a violinist, and Ryan Chen, a guitarist. Skaggs, 15, is a student at Canyon del Oro High School where he is a member of the student orchestra under the direction of Toru Tagawa. He is also member of the Tucson Repertory Orchestra and the Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra where he holds the position of co-concertmaster under the direction of Dr. Suzette Battan. He will play Saint-Saens Third Concerto for Violin and Orches-

tra (3rd movement) with the Tucson Pops orchestra.

Chen, 15, a freshman at Catalina Foothills High School, has studied classical guitar since he was 6 and won the 2016 Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition. He also plays the clarinet in the Catalina Foothills High School Band. For his appearance with the Tucson Pops Orchestra, he will perform "Una LImosna por el Amor de Dios" for solo guitar.

Other musical highlights will include Vere’s annual tribute to Mother’s Day, “My Yiddishe Momme”; a "Tribute to Benny Goodman"; selections from "Die Fledermaus" and the "Sound of Music"; and “The Tucson March,” an original composition dedicated to Veres, the Tucson Pops Orchestra and the City of Tucson by award winning composer and arranger Mark Wolfram.

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Dubowitz said the provision allowing inspectors to demand access to suspected sites may be unenforceable: Hardliners in the Iranian leadership have said repeatedly that access to military sites would be a no-go.

“It’s the covert sites that are the big problem,” he said. “If you’re not getting into the military sites, the deal is deeply flawed.”

Heather Hurlburt, the director of New Models of Policy Change at New America, a think tank that backed the Iran deal, said the inspections regime is much more intrusive in the Iranian case.

“It’s like comparing the security check at a Manhattan office tower with the security check at Ben Gurion,” she said, referencing the Israeli airport known for its stringent measures.

Neighbors Iran is a diverse nation with an ancient tradition of multilateral ties with its neighbors. North Korea is a secretive Stalinist regime and has just one significant relationship — with China.

Kimball said the world powers that negotiated the Iran deal granted Iran considerable leverage: Iran does not have the self-contained system that allows Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, to retain power even as his people starve. In order to survive, he suggested, the regime must allow Iranians to trade and thrive.

“The Iranians highly, highly value the removal of nuclear sanctions and access to oil markets,” Kimball said. “There was no similar incentive for North Koreans.”

Iranians “deeply fear” losing access to the outside world, he said.

“As time goes on they will be more accustomed to this liberal environment of trade and investment,” Kimball said, “and that will make it more appealing to them to continue to comply.”

Dubowitz said it was Iran’s ambitions in the region that made it more dangerous, adding that Kim was unlikely to strike unless he felt his regime was threatened. The Iranians, Dubowitz argued, could one day use nuclear leverage to support their expansionist claims in the Middle East, including in Syria, where they are backing the Assad regime in quelling the rebellion, in Yemen, in the Persian Gulf – and against Israel.

“North Korea is an isolationist pariah nation with a Stalinist ideology that appeals to no one,” he said. “Iran sees itself

as guardian of the Islamic world.”

Deadlines The goal of the Framework Agreement was a “nuclear-free Korean peninsula” — no nukes, period. North Korea was to be allowed to get light-water reactors, which are proliferation resistant.

Iran, beginning eight years after the 2015 agreement, will be allowed in increments to reactivate centrifuges that could conceivably enrich uranium to weapons grade.

That has been a key concern of critics of the Iran deal, known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

“The JCPOA fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran,” Tillerson said in his press availability. “It only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state.”

Kimball sounded exasperated at what has become a common misperception.

“The deal obliges Iran to never pursue nuclear weapons in the future,” he said.

While it is true that the agreement allows Iran to enhance its enrichment capabilities over time, and decreases the breadth of the inspections regime, Iran remains a signatory to the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. As part of the deal, it signed on again to the “additional protocol” that allows International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors expanded access to sites in perpetuity. (Iran had previously shucked off the additional protocol.) The protocol has no sunset clauses.

Why can’t we be friends?

It wasn’t just bad actions by North Korea that killed the deal — it was bad faith and distrust on all sides. President Bill Clinton signed the deal in 1994, but by the time of implementation, an adversarial Republican Congress was in place and frustrated the deliveries of promised heating oil.

In both the North Korea and the Iran cases, missile development has been an obstructing factor. Neither deal touched ballistic missiles, but testing the devices, capable of delivering a nuclear weapon has exacerbated tensions.

The United States in the late 1990s began to sanction North Korea for its ballistic missile tests, but North Korea defiantly kept testing them and said the sanctions were eroding the framework agreement.

A similar scenario is playing out now.

The Obama administration last year and the Trump administration this year issued new sanctions following Iranian missile tests; Iran has said it sees the sanctions as undermining the agreement.

Trump made clear he sees the missile tests as the problem, saying this week of Iran that “they are not living up to the spirit of the agreement.”

P.S. right in order to ensure that this trip is possible for other young couples. In the future, our community hopes to lead another joint Phoenix/Tucson trip with more local couples.

SHARON KLEIN

Special to the AJP

Hollywood Half-Marathon On April 8 at 6 a.m. , S h e l b y Roseman and her daughter, Lauren Brewer (Phoenix), ran in the Hollywood Half-Marathon. The race started in front of the Dolby Theatre, home of the Academy Awards, and continued down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the finish line near Hollywood and Vine, David Roseman cheered for his wife and daughter. Lauren finished with a time of 1:45:47; Shelby’s time of 2:18:51 placed her fourth in her 60-64 age group. Participants each received a Star Medal.

Our runners have competed together in other half-marathons — the Bobbie Olson (Tucson), New York and Yellowstone Half-Marathons. Lauren has also run in other half and full marathons, including Boston and New York. Kudos to this dynamic mother-daughter duo.

Pesach on campus

Time to share

Lauren Brewer (left) and Shelby Roseman before picking up their Hollywood Half-Marathon race packets

Photo courtesy Michael Shiner

Keep me posted – 319-1112. L’shalom.

Michael Shiner and Melissa Spiller-Shiner atop Masada

Photo courtesy Jewish Arizonans on Campus

Just as Tucsonans had choices of community Passover seder venues, so did University of Arizona students. As a “home-away-from-home” for the holiday, they chose between the UA Hillel Foundation, UA Chabad and Jewish Arizonans on Campus.

Michelle Blumenberg, UA Hillel executive director, worked with freshman Michaela Davenport and sophomore Jessi Grossman (Phoenix) to compile their own Haggadah to conduct the student-led seder for 129 people on the first night of Passover. The Oy Vey Café was not open during Passover; however, Hillel offered kosher for Passover weekday lunches. Other activities during the week included a matzah pizza-making dinner and a Moroccan-style Mimuna celebration at the end of the holiday.

Over 400 Jewish Wildcats attended seders at the UA Rohr Chabad House.

Rabbi Yossi and Naomi Winner, codirectors of UA Chabad, opened their home for the eight days of the holiday, offering students seders on the first and second nights plus lunches and dinners throughout the week. Naomi also instructed about 20 students how to prepare and cook for Passover, making traditional brisket, chicken soup, gefilte fish, salads and other side dishes, in order for them to lead their own seders in the future.

According to Rabbi Moshe Schonbrun of Jewish Arizonans on Campus,

Jewish Arizonans on Campus make seder plates (L-R): Rebbetzin Esti Schonbrun, Demi Miller (Pa.) and Emily Judson (Phoenix)

Photo courtesy UA Chabad

Honeymoon Israel First comes love … then comes Honeymoon Israel.

From Feb. 17–26, 20 couples from Phoenix and Tucson traveled to Israel through Honeymoon Israel. Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, president and dean of Valley Beit Midrash of Phoenix, and Matt Landau, director of leadership development and public relations for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, led the group. Four Tucson couples participated: Nick Eckley and Rachel Haimowitz, Grayson and Ally Ross, Isaac and Tanya Rothschild, and Michael Shiner and Melissa SpillerShiner. While Birthright Israel is free, Honeymoon Israel is highly subsidized ($1,800 per couple). Unlike Birthright, HMI brings together 20 couples, ages 25-40 with at least one Jewish partner, who are entering a new phase in their lives and looking to engage in and build community. What makes this trip unique is experiencing Israel early in their committed relationship with other couples who are working to establish their Jewish identities. HMI participants visit sites that Birthright participants do but also encounter Israel at night at their own leisure. Currently, HMI is being funded on a national level; there will need to be local support as with Birth-

JAC held two seders — participatory, traditional, meaningful, discussion-based — with about 25-30 people each, lasting past 1 a.m. both nights. Schonbrun and his wife, Esti, offered home-cooked meals throughout Pesach, including vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Photo courtesy Shelby Roseman

Local people, places, travels and simchas

UA Rohr Chabad House seder prep: Jaclyn Fishler (Pa.), Stevie Katz (Md.), Hannah Zedek (Calif.), Jennie Taer (Texas), Mendel Winner, Ellie Neiman (Colo.), Adina Karp (Tucson), Bluma Winner, Zalman Winner, Bridget Ott (Phoenix), Ben Nach (Phoenix) and Reuben Nach (Phoenix) April 28, 2017, ARIZONA JEWISH POST

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR The calendar deadline is Tuesday, 10 days before the issue date. Our next issue will be published May 12, 2017. Events may be emailed to localnews@azjewishpost.com, faxed to 319-1118, or mailed to the AJP at 3822 E. River Road, #300, Tucson, AZ 85718. For more information, call 319-1112. See Area Congregations on page 11 for additional synagogue events.

ONGOING

Men’s Mishnah club with Rabbi Israel Becker at Cong. Chofetz Chayim. Sundays, 7:15-8 a.m.; Mondays and Thursdays, 6:156:50 a.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 6:15-7 a.m.; Saturdays, call for time. 747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com.

noon. Discussion based on “The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah.”

Bring dairy lunch; beverages and dessert provided. Contact Helen at 299-0340.

Chabad of Sierra Vista men’s tefillin club with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, first Sundays, 9 a.m., at 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or jewishsierravista.com.

Tucson J current events discussion, Mondays, noon-1:30 p.m. Members, $1; nonmembers, $2. Lunch, bring or buy, 11:30 a.m. 2993000, ext. 147.

“Too Jewish” radio show with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon on KVOI 1030 AM (also KAPR and KJAA), Sundays at 9 a.m.

Cong. Bet Shalom yoga. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $5. 577-1171.

Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley bagel breakfast and Yiddish club, first Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Members, $7; nonmembers, $10. 648-6690 or 399-3474.

Southern Arizona Jewish Genealogy Society, second Sundays, 1-3 p.m. at the Tucson J. Contact Barbara Stern Mannlein at 731-0300 or the J at 299-3000.

Tucson J presents Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Just for Kids free series, Sunday, 2 p.m., May 21. 299-3000.

Cong. Anshei Israel parent-tot class (9-24 months), Mondays, 9-11 a.m. Facilitated by Gabby Erbst. Mandatory vaccination policy.

Contact Lynne Falkow-Strauss at 745-5550, ext. 229.

Temple Emanu-El mah jongg, Mondays at 10 a.m. 327-4501.

Jewish Federation-Northwest chair yoga with a Jewish flair taught by Bonnie Golden.

Mondays, 10-11 a.m. $7 per class or $25 for four. 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

Jewish sobriety support group meets Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. at Cong. Bet Shalom. dcmack1952@gmail.com.

“Along the Talmudic Trail” for men (18-40) at Southwest Torah Institute, Mondays, 7 p.m.

747-7780 or yzbecker@me.com.

Spouse Bereavement Group, cosponsored

by Widowed to Widowed, Inc. at the Tucson J, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Contact Marvin at 8852005 or Tanya at 299-3000, ext. 147.

JFCS Holocaust Survivors group meets Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Contact Raisa Moroz at 795-0300.

Jewish Federation-Northwest PJ Library story time with volunteer Daphna Lederman.

First Tuesdays, through May 2, 10-11 a.m.

505-4161.

Tucson J social bridge. Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-3 p.m., year round. Drop-ins welcome. Meets in library on second floor. 2993000.

Cong. Anshei Israel mah jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon., All levels, men and women.

Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol. com.

Northwest Knitters create hand-stitched items for donation in the Jewish community.

Meets at Jewish Federation Northwest Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. RSVP to judithgfeldman@ gmail.com or call 505-4161.

Cong. Anshei Israel women’s study group led by Rabbi Robert Eisen. First Mondays,

Talmud on Tuesday with Rabbi Robert Eisen, Tuesdays, 6 p.m., 745-5550.

Friday / April 28 7:30 AM: JCRC/JFSA Spring Leaders Forum breakfast at the Tucson J. Panel discussion on the immigration crisis in Southern Arizona, with Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, Mexican Consul Ricardo Pineda Albarran, immigration attorney Alan Bennett, AZ LULAC immigration chair Maria Vianey Cardenas and DACA student recipient Francisco Salcido. RSVP required to Jane Scott at jscott@jfsa.org.

5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Israeli-style family Shabbat dinner (kosher chicken or vegetarian entrée upon request) followed by Israel Shabbat Rocks! service with the Avanim Band at 6:30 p.m., followed by Shabbat Evening Service with adult choir featuring Israeli composers at 7:30 p.m. Dinner: $12, adults (13 and older); children, free; RSVP at 327-4501.

7 PM: Cong. M'kor Hayim Shabbat service,

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“Thinking About Israel,” at Tucson Hebrew Academy. 904-1881.

Saturday / April 29 9 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel presents Israel Solidarity Shabbat. 745-5550.

10 AM: Temple Emanu-El Shabbat service with Israeli songs and guest speaker. 327-4501.

12:40-2 PM: Cong. Bet Shalom think tank discussion: “Social & Cultural Trends in Israeli Society Today,” facilitated by David Graizbord, Ph.D. and Rabbi Howard Schwartz, M.D. 577-1171.

6-10 PM: Cong. Or Chadash fundraiser: An evening at Wayne's Toys – Tucson's Auto Museum, 990 S. Cherry Ave. Includes DJ with car tunes and dance music, silent auction, prizes, hosted bar and beer tasting. $55 per person. Admission includes food truck dinner ticket; additional food can be purchased. Walk-ins welcome 512-8500.

Tucson J Israeli folk dance classes. Tuesdays. Beginners, 7:30 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15 p.m.; advanced, 9 p.m. Taught by Lisa Goldberg. Members, $5; nonmembers, $6. 2993000.

Shalom Tucson business networking group, second Wednesday of month, 7:30-9 a.m., at the Tucson J. Contact Ori Parnaby at 2993000, ext. 241, or concierge@jewishtucson. org.

Cong. Anshei Israel gentle chair yoga with Lois Graham, Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Members of Women’s League, $6 per class; nonmembers, $8 per class. Contact Evelyn at 885-4102 or esigafus@aol.com.

Temple Emanu-El Talmud study with Dr. Eliot Barron. Wednesdays, 10-11:30 a.m. One-time $18 materials fee. 327-4501.

Chabad of Sierra Vista women’s class with Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, last Wednesdays, noon-2 p.m., 401 Suffolk Drive. 820-6256 or jewishsierravista.com.

Lunch and learn with Cantor Avraham Alpert of Cong. Bet Shalom, Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m. at the Tucson J. 299-3000.

Jewish Federation-Northwest mah jongg, Wednesdays, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. 505-4161.

Chabad Tucson lunch and learn with Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin, Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m. at Eli’s Deli. info@ChabadTucson.com.

Weintraub Israel Center Shirat HaShirim Hebrew Choir, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., at the Tucson J. Learn to sing in Hebrew. Contact Rina Paz at 304-7943 or ericashem@cox.net.

Jewish mothers/grandmothers special needs support group for those with children/grandchildren, young or adult, with special needs, third Wednesdays at 7-8:30 p.m. at Tucson J. Contact Joyce Stuehringer at

Sunday / April 30 10 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel Parenting with a Jewish Lens discussion group, in collaboration with JFCS, facilitated by Rabbi Robert Eisen and Jacque Kaplan, MSW, LCSW. Topic: “Diapers to Driving: What Matters When?” Contact Rabbi Ruven Barkan at 745-5550, ext. 227 or eddir@caiaz. org.

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Desert Caucus brunch with Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), at Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. St. Andrews Dr. Guests should be potential members. RSVP to Jennifer Miller Grant at 490-1453.

11 AM-12:30 PM: JFCS Shalom in Every Home Healthy Family lecture series. “Nourishing Love & Happiness: Mindfulness Techniques & Relationship Health,” with Shari Goettel, LCSW, at the Tucson J. Free. RSVP at bit.ly/shalom-home or call 795-0300 ext. 2365.

299-5920.

Cong. Bet Shalom Lunch and Learn with Cantor Avraham Alpert, Thursdays, noon-1 p.m. at Eli’s Deli. 577-1171.

Tucson J canasta group. Players wanted.

Thursdays, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Instruction available and a beginners’ table every week. Call Rhoda at 886-4334.

Tucson J “Keep Tucson Warm” knitting group creates afghans for local shelter. All skill levels. Yarn donations welcome. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon in the art gallery. Contact Tanya at 299-3000, ext. 147.

Jewish History Museum gallery chats.

15-minute programs led by community members. First and third Fridays, 11:30 a.m., through May 19. 564 S. Stone Ave. 670-9073.

“Biblical Breakthroughs with Rabbi Becker” at the Southwest Torah Institute. Fridays, noon, for men and women. 747-7780 or yzbecker@ me.com.

Jewish History Museum and Holocaust History Center, open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; Friday noon3 p.m. 564 S. Stone Ave. Adults, $7; members and students, free. No admission charge on Saturdays. 670-9073.

Jewish History Museum exhibition, “Fluid Identities: New Mexican Crypto Jews in the Late 20th Century,” at 564 S. Stone Ave., through May 31. 670-9073.

Tucson J art show, “Groovin' Together: Artists of Many Hands Courtyard and the Tucson Arts Cooperative Multi-Media Exhibit,” thorugh May 30 in the Fine Art Gallery. 2993000.

Jewish Federation-Northwest/Cong. Or Chadash Hebrew and Judaism tutorials for school-aged children, at Jewish FederationNorthwest, now through summer. Call 9007030 or email Rina Liebskind at hebrewnw@ octucson.org.

NOON: Cong. Anshei Israel USY “Step-up” Day. All third-12th graders are invited to learn about the next level of USY. Lunch included. RSVP to Rabbi Ruven Barkan at 745-5550, ext. 227 or eddir@ caiaz.org.

1 PM: “Jerusalem,” award-winning documentary

by National Geographic, at the Tucson J, commemorating 50 years of reunification of Jerusalem.

Free. 577-9393, ext. 133.

1:30 PM: Tracing Roots intergenerational program community reception at Handmaker. Contact Nanci Levy at 322-3632.

2 PM: Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley presents A Concert of Famous Jewish Songwriters & composers. Refreshments. Donations accepted. 648-6690.

3-5 PM: Jewish Latino Teen Coalition B'nai Mitzvah 13th year celebration at Most Holy Trinity Parish, 1300 N. Greasewood Road. Dessert

and coffee will be served. Support the event at https://igg.me/at/ftk5GtMNMMA. 3 PM: Tucson J Syrian cooking class with Syrian refugee, Chef Shahd. Cohosted by the International Rescue Committee. Members, $65; nonmembers, $70. 299-3000 or tucsonjcc.org.

6:30 PM: Yom Hazikaron ceremony, “My Israel Moment” at the Tucson J. Commemoration for Israeli fallen soldiers and terror victims, including panel discussion with Tucson rabbis and Jewish leaders. 577-9393, ext. 133.

MONDAY / MAY 1 10 AM-NOON: Brandeis National Committee Tucson Chapter board meeting and planning meeting. Prospective members welcome.

Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Road. tucsonbnc.org.

2:30-4:30 PM: Tucson J class, “Painting the World Jewish: Basic Watercolor Techniques on Jewish Themes,” led by Ann Marcus Lapidus.

Four Mondays, through May 22. Members, $120; nonmembers, $130. 299-3000 or tucsonjcc.org.

5:30 PM: Tucson J class, “Healing Visualization Meditation” with Pamela Adler.

6 PM: Shinshinim appreciation at the Tucson J, including recognition of host families. Suggested donation $5 per person. RSVP at 577-9393, ext.

133 or jfsa.org/shinshinim.

TUESDAY / MAY 2 5 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel presents Israeli music concert with adult and youth choirs led by cantorial soloist Nichole Chorny. 745-5550.

WEDNESDAY / MAY 3 1-2:30 PM: Tucson J class, “The Geniuses of Russian Literature of the 19th Century,” led by Roza Simkhovich, covers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Checkhov in historical context. Four Wednesdays, through May 24. Members, $30; nonmembers, $36; drop-in, $9. 299-3000 or tucsonjcc.org.

7-8:30 PM: Jewish Learning Institute six-week course, “Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel through the Lens of the Six-Day War,” Wednesdays at the Tucson J. Co-presented by Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin of Chabad Tucson and Oshrat Barel of the Weintraub Israel Center. $99, textbook included. Enroll at 647-8457 or ChabadTucson.com/ IsraelCourse, or email info@chabadtucson.com.

7:30 PM: Loft Cinema series at Tucson J, The Films of Mel Brooks, begins with “Young Frankenstein.” Continues Sunday, May 14 with “High Anxiety”, Wednesday, May 24 with “Blazing Saddles” and Sunday May 28 with “Spaceballs.” All shows 7:30 p.m. Tickets at loftcinema.org or at the Loft box office.

THURSDAY / MAY 4 5:30-7 PM: Tucson J class, “Introduction to Food Writing,” led by Edie Jarolim. Four Thursdays, through May 25. Members, $55; nonmembers, $65. 299-300 or tucsonjcc.org.

6:30 PM: Tucson J/University of Arizona Cancer Center Lecture Series presents “Breast

Cancer Research and Patient Care” with Joyce Schroeder, Ph.D., director of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Initiative, University of Arizona Cancer Center; professor, molecular and cellular biology, UA College of Medicine, and Pavani Chalasani M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine, hematology and oncology, UA College of Medicine, at the Tucson J. Call 299-3000.

Rayna Gellman at 887-8358 or rgellman@cox.net.

7 PM: Jewish History Museum annual meeting, 564 S. Stone Ave. 670-9073.

7 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest paper therapy card making with Anne Lowe. Preceded at 6 p.m. by optional group shopping for further crafting supplies: meet at Michael's, Oracle/Limberlost. $20 Including supplies and instruction. RSVP by May 5 to Anne at loweflyingbooks@gmail.com

FRIDAY / MAY 5 11 AM: Tucson J Senior Shabbat luncheon.

Music, lunch and memoir writing with writer-inresidence Edie Jarolim. $15. RSVP at 299-300 or tucsonjcc.org.

5 PM: Temple Emanu-El Tot Kabbalat Israel Shabbat service followed at 5:30 p.m. by dinner for families with preschool-age children, followed by dessert on the playground. Dinner: adults, $10; children under 12, free. RSVP at 327-4501.

6:30 PM: Cong. Or Chadash Musical Celebration of Israel's Birthday at Friday Night LIVE! Shabbat Service Under the Stars, with teen choir and Chai Lights Klezmer band. 512-8500.

7 PM: Cong. Chaverim Celebrate Israel with the Music of Naomi Shemer Shabbat service. 3201015.

7:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El new member Shabbat service, followed by Oneg. 327-4501.

SATURDAY / MAY 6 9:30 AM Chabad Tucson/Cong. Young Israel Cherishing Israel Shabbat, followed by a presentation and Israeli Kiddush at noon. 326-8362.

10 AM: Cong. Chaverim Celebrate Israel with the Music of Naomi Shemer Shabbat service.

320-1015.

6:15 PM: Cong. Anshei Israel Confirmation/ Mincha service. 10th-grade students, or those who have completed two years’ post-bar/bat mitzvah study, will participate. 745-5550.

5:30-8 PM: Tucson J annual meeting. Appetizers, followed by dinner at 6 p.m. and installation of new board and awards ceremony. 299-3000 or tucsonjcc.org. RSVP by May 1 at welcome desk.

Free babysitting provided: contact Joline Riddle by May 4 at jriddle@tucsonjcc.org.

TUESDAY / MAY 9 10 AM: Jewish Learning Institute/Chabad Oro Valley six-week course, “Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel through the Lens of the Six-Day War,” led by Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman. Tuesdays through June 13, at Golder Ranch Fire Station, 355 Linda Vista Blvd. $99 including textbook.

Registration at jewishorovalley.com/JLI. 10 AM-NOON: JFCS Ethical Will Workshop at Beth Shalom Temple Center, 1751 N. Rio Mayo in Green Valley. Led by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron.

Free, light refreshments. RSVP to Ruth Barwick at rbarwick16@gmail.com or 648-6690.

WEDNESDAY / MAY 10 7 PM: Jewish Federation-Northwest visit by Jewish Tucson’s shinshinim (Israeli teen emissaries), Leah Avnuo and Bar Alkaher, including a presentation on their year in Jewish Tucson. RSVP to 505-4161 or northwestjewish@jfsa.org.

THURSDAY / MAY 11 3-4 PM Tucson J class, “Advanced Hebrew for Adults” led by Sara Golan-Mussman, conversation, grammar and Israeli culture for students who can read and write in Hebrew. Cost of textbook paid to instructor. Eight Thursdays through June 22. Members, $60; nonmembers, $70. 299-3000 or tucsonjcc.org.

7 PM: JFSA annual meeting and awards ceremony, “Celebrating the Next 70,” at the Tucson J. Installation of officers, ice cream social. $5.

RSVP at jfsa.org, admin@jfsa.org or 577-9393.

FRIDAY / MAY 12 5:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El family Shabbat dinner followed by Shabbat Rocks! service with the Avanim Band at 6:30 p.m. Dinner: $12, adults (13 and older); children, free. RSVP at 327-4501.

6 PM: Temple Emanu-El Northwest Shabbat dinner and service with Rabbi Batsheva Appel and cantorial soloist Lindsey O'Shea, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo Del Norte. Kosher chicken dinner (vegetarian upon request) followed by Shabbat service at 7 p.m.

Dinner: Temple members, $12; nonmembers, $14; children 12 and under, free. RSVP at 327-4501.

9:30 PM: Temple Emanu-El Downtown Shabbat at Jewish History Museum, 564 S. Stone Ave., with the Armon Bizman band and Rabbi Samuel Cohon; oneg follows. 327-4501.

SATURDAY / MAY 13 2-4 PM: Secular Humanist Jewish Circle video and discussion, “The Jewish Journey – Jewish Immigration to America Through the Centuries,” at Himmel Park Library, 1035 N. Treat Ave. Bring a snack to share and $1 for the Community Food Bank. Information at SHJCaz.org. RSVP to Dee, 299-4404 or deemorton@msn.com.

5 PM: Temple Emanu-El Wandering Jews and Babies & Bagels Lag B’Omer picnic and bonfire, at the Youngerman Ranch. 327-4501.

SUNDAY / MAY 14 5 PM: “Why is the Media Confused about Israel?” Free lecture and dinner at Cong.

Chofetz Chayim with award-winning journalist and author, Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter and author of “The Aleppo Codex” and “Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story.” RSVP required by May 7 at 577-9393, ext.133 or jfsa.org/ mattifriedmanlecture

SUNDAY / MAY 7 3-6 PM: Weintraub Israel Center Israel Celebration - Family Fun Day at the Tucson J. Israeli picnic, PJ Library program, kids’ art contest, Israeli music and folk dance. Paint tiles for the new Sister Jose Women’s Center ($18), the focus of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona’s 70th anniversary mitzvah project. 577-9393 or israelcenter@ jfsa.org.

7-9 PM: Weintraub Israel Center Gertrude and Fred Rosen Memorial Lecture: “Bridging Through Water” at the Tucson J. Sharon Megdal, Ph.D., director of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, will present the film “Beyond the Mirage” and a Q&A on “Israel as an Innovator in Water Management and Technology.”

RSVP at jfsa.org/rosenlecture.

MONDAY / MAY 8 11:45 AM: Cong. Anshei Israel “Read It and Meet” planning meeting, at Eli's Deli, 5071 E. 5th St. Bring titles and brief summaries of 2-3 books to help plan reading list for the coming year. RSVP to April 28, 2017, ARIZONA JEWISH POST

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OBITUARIES Robert Hirsch Robert Stephen Hirsch, M.D., 86, died April 8, 2017.

Born in New York, Dr. Hirsch attended Lawrence Woodmere Academy; Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude; and Columbia Medical School.

In 1962, he moved to Tucson, where he was a physician.

Survivors include his wife, Harriet; children, Julie (Brian) Hills of Tucson and David Hirsch of Santan Valley, Ariz.; and four grandchildren.

Services were held at Evergreen Mortuary, with Rabbi Thomas Louchheim of Congregation Or Chadash officiating, followed by interment in the Temple Emanu-El section of Evergreen Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

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Dale Carol Levy, 74, of Tucson, died April 12, 2017.

Mrs. Levy was born in New York City. At the age of 12, she met her future husband, Martin, at a youth group event at the Queens Village Jewish Center.

Mrs. Levy was predeceased by her brother Kenneth Handler. Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Martin; children, Robin Ambrosino of Tucson, Michael Robert (Virginia) Levy of Tucson, Joy Linda (David) Worstell of California and Adam (Jean) Levy of Colorado; brother Jeffrey (Harri-Ann) Handler of Tucson; sister-in-law, Roberta Handler of Florida; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Graveside services were held in the Temple EmanuEl section of Evergreen Cemetery with Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon of Temple Emanu-El officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road, Tucson 85716.

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People in the news

Graesyn Parrish, daughter of Gail and Tim Parrish, will celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah on April 29, 2017 at Congregation Or Chadash.

She is the granddaughter of Beverly and Bernard Elzweig of Tucson.

Graesyn attends Vail Academy & High School. She enjoys playing volleyball and soccer with her teams at school.

For her mitzvah project, Graesyn is collecting old mascara brushes for animals to help clean their fur.

STEVEN MECKLER won a District Gold ADDY Award for color photography for “School Lunch Trays” published in Edible Baja Magazine, in the American Advertising Federation’s District 12 competition. The district includes advertising federation clubs in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and El Paso.

Elanna Franklin, daughter of Caren Franklin and the late Tony Franklin, will celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah on April 29, 2017 at Congregation Or Chadash.

She is the granddaughter of Beverly and Bernard Elzweig of Tucson.

Elanna attends Emily Gray Junior High School. She enjoys karate and rock climbing.

For her mitzvah project, Elanna is collecting old mascara brushes for animals to help clean their fur.

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TUCSON’S BBYO groups, Kadima BBG and Abba Godol AZA, sent an unprecedented 16 teens to the international convention held February 16-20 in Dallas and a record 20 teens to Mountain Region conclave held April 6-9 in Prescott. BBYO is an international pluralistic Jewish youth movement. Six members ran for the regional board, with Josh Cohen elected regional aleph godol (president), Jaden Boling elected regional gizbor (treasurer) and Avin Kreisler elected regional shaliach (Judaics vice president). Tucson senior Alex Senti, as regional moreh (membership vice president), led a membership drive that increased regional membership by more than 12 percent. For more information on BBYO, contact Oren Riback, city director, at 2993000 or oriback@tucsonjcc.org

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THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has hired MELISSA HALL as office and facilities manager. She will transition from her current position as executive assistant at the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, where she has worked for the past 16 years, and will support both JFSA and JCF when they move into their new building. She started at JCF as marketing and events coordinator, added technology coordinator to that position, then became a legacy coordinator before moving to her current role. Hall serves on the board of Congregation Or Chadash. She is a former Tucson Hebrew Academy board member and a former member of the JFSA Young Women’s Cabinet.

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Be part of a landmark event in our community’s history

TH E N E X T 70:

A NEW HOME FOR THE JEWISH FEDER ATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA Thank you to these community members who have already supported THE NEXT 70.

We invite you to join them and be included in future recognition listings. Donate at www.jfsa.org or call 577.9393 LEAD GIFTS Deanna Evenchik-Brav & Harvey Evenchik* Diamond Family The Children of Sue & Saul* Tobin Pozez Family in Memory of Shaol* & Evelyn* Pozez Mel & Enid Zuckerman Donald L. Baker* Endowment Fund Jane & Lee* Kivel Paul & Alice Baker

CHAI Bruce & Jane Ash Audrey Brooks & Donna Moser The Children of Richard* & Esther* Capin David & Ellen Goldstein David & Anne Hameroff Bertie Levkowitz Ken & Beverly Sandock Howard & Trudy Schwartz Harvey & Rica Spivack Elizabeth Weiner-Schulman

BENEFACTORS Maizlish Family Ron & Kathy Margolis Herschel & Jill Rosenzweig Lex & Carol Sears Maltz Family Foundation Ron & Diane Weintraub Brina Grusin Family Eric Groskind & Liz Kanter Groskind

TZEDAKAH Anonymous Nathaniel & Suzanne Bloomfield Mel Cohen Jeff & Dianne Grobstein Leonard & Marcelle Joffe Stephen Pozez Jim, Mika & Michael Shiner

BUILDERS Gerald & Gail Birin Dick & Sherry Belkin Bruce & Donna Beyer Ed & Fern* Feder Ellis & Irene Friedman Danny Gasch & Janis Wolfe Gasch Larry Gellman & Kristen Bozza Gellman Gary & Tandy Kippur Bobby Present & Deborah Oseran Lowell & Anne* Rothschild Sundt Corporation David & Kathryn Unger Thomas W. Warne James Wezelman & Denise Grusin

CHESED Jeff & Jennifer Bell Peter Evans Steven, Randy, Zachary, Courtney & Tyler Fenton Rob & Laurie Glaser Tedd & Melissa Goldfinger David & Tracy Jeck Donald & Eleanor Jeck Amy Hirshberg Lederman Stanley Lehman & Family Phil & Vicki Pepper Edward & Lynda Rogoff Stuart & Andy Shatken Stuart & Marianne Taussig Gerry & Linda Tumarkin James Whitehill & Jane Rodda Robert Wolk & Mary Cochran Wolk

Gifts of any size are important and appreciated. Named recognition opportunities are available starting at $1,000.

TIKKUN OLAM Marlyne Freedman Barry & Madeline Friedman Fred Fruchthendler Adam & Dana Goldstein Joe & Paulette Gootter Larry & Diana Haas Jon & Susan Kasle Jeff & Fran Katz Alvin & Janice Kivel Fred & Sharon Klein Steve & Brenda Landau Family Irwin Manou & Barbara Brumer Stuart & Nancy Mellan Michael & Helene Miron Terry & Martha Perl Stuart & Eve Pinkert Stephen Rodgveller & Brenna Lacey Tracy Salkowitz & Rick Edwards Allan & Nancy Resnick Leonard & Sarah Schultz Ed & Robyn Schwager Earl & Lee Surwit CHAVERIM Gail M. Barnhill Jim & Ruth Barwick Jon Ben-Asher & Nancy Ozeri Moe & Frances Beren JR & Tamar Bergantino Amy Beyer Neil & Ilana Boss-Markowitz Eric & Jackie Brody Julee Dawson Keith Dveirin & Julie Feldman Esta Goldstein Greater Tucson Fire Foundation Jonathan & Rachel Green Jerry & Lynn Greenberg Carol Hollander Josh & Ashley Hurand John & Deborah Judin

CHAVERIM (CONTINUED) Barry & Michelle Kusman Richard & Peggy Langert Larry & Gail Leiken Carole Levi Marilyn Lobell David & Anne Lowe Ann Markewitz & Trish Lindgren Murray & Honey Manson Caron Mitchell Fred & Helene Mittleman Lenny & Helen Rib Todd & Jenni Rockoff Mark & Bari Ross Simon Rosenblatt & Louise Greenfield Carol Sack Eric & Andrea Schindler Jeff & Keri Silvyn Richard White & Barbara Harris Kenny & Sandra Wortzel John & Kitty Wu Al & Becky Zehngut CONTRIBUTORS Morton Aronoff Eliot & Vida Barron Debbie Boggs Raisa Bograd Caballeros Del Sol, Inc. Stephen & Ruth Dickstein Richard & Wendy Feldman Alan & Susan Kendal Harriette Levitt William & Bonnie Jacobson Ted Seger & Koreen Johannessen Jeanne Mandell Lori Riegel Yetta Saltzman Kate Sassoon Monique Steinberg Joel & Alice Steinfeld Meryl Tischler Renate Wasserman Alan & Sylvia Winner *Of blessed memory

Pledges may be payable for up to five years. For more information, contact Stuart Mellan, stumellan@jfsa.org; Fran Katz, fkatz@jfsa.org; or Marlyne Freedman, Marlynef@gmail.com.

List includes commitments received as of 4/25/17. Please contact the Federation to correct any omissions or errors.

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