Face & Places

FACES & PLACES H e a l o n G a s t o n

AUTHOR EVENT –Alan Sandler. right, at ASU Faculty Club with noted author Healon Gaston who spoke about her new book, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefnition of Democracy. Sandler is associate director of development, humanities, at the university. GROUP PHOTO BY LENI REISS

ALL THAT JAZZ –Linda Moskowitz, pictured with her husband, Les, was honored at Congregation Or Tzion’s All Tat Jazz Gala at Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas on Feb. 1.

GOING PUBLIC – Jake Bennett gave public testimony on Jan. 29 at the Arizona Senate committee hearing on Arizona’s anti-Semitism bill. When passed into law, it will adopt the IHRA defnition of anti-Semitism as a tool for evaluating and identifying incidents of anti-Semitism in the State of Arizona.

CRIMINAL EVIDENCE –

At the opening event on Jan. 26 at the Burton Barr Central Library, of the Holocaust by Bullets Exhibition, Nancy Herman and Bob Mautner meet with Ewa Schaller, center, representing American Friends of Yahad-In Unum. Since its founding in 2004, the organization has conducted numerous research trips, identifying execution sites and interviewing more than 7,000 eyewitnesses in 11 countries. For information about the ongoing exhibit go to HolocaustbyBulletsAZ.com. GROUP PHOTO BY LENI REISS

SURVIVOR’S SPEECH – Former Sunnyside Unifed School District teacher and Holocaust survivor Teresa Dulgov spoke at a hearing to promote a bill which would ensure that Arizona students are taught about the Holocaust at least twice between seventh- and twelfth-grades. PHOTO BY MORGAN WILLIS/AZEDNEWS

NOTED LECTURER – “Who is a Jew: Identity, Peoplehood and Conversion” was his wide-ranging topic when Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson addressed a welcoming crowd at the Jan. 23 Valley Beit Midrash event at Temple Solel. Ellenson is Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College. Pictured with him are A.J. Frost, VBM senior director of operations and Lisa Hendizadeh, event coordinator. PHOTO BY LENI REISS