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<p>Chabad of Fountain Hills has purchased the landmark site of Gridleys, a former retail store that closed in May.</p>

Chabad of Fountain Hills purchases building to accommodate growth

In its continuing efforts to keep up with increasing membership, Chabad of Fountain Hills has purchased the former site of Gridleys, a retail store that closed in May after 43 years in business.

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<p>VBM president and dean Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz interviews David Almog of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. The video conversation complements the lecture podcasts at VBM.</p>

Audience growing for Valley Beit Midrash’s podcast series

Valley Beit Midrash (VBM), the collaborative organization that offers a wide array of Jewish programming to the Greater Phoenix Jewish community, continues to beef up its library of podcasts to help foster Jewish learning.

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Valley of the Sun JCC hosts special dive-in movie

Valley of the Sun JCC hosts special dive-in movie

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Arts & Culture

<p>Gabby Loeff holds some of her artwork. Recently she was awarded a scholarship from the Scottsdale Artists League.</p>

Young Scottsdale resident set to meld art and business

Amid Scottsdale’s high summer temperatures, Gabby Loeff, 18, is just as feverishly embracing her commissioned artwork as a way to help pay for college tuition.

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Torah study

The magic of Hershel Potter-stein

<p>Rabbi Jeremy Schneider</p>
Numbers 16:1–17:15

Food

<p>The Shanghai Jewish Center opened in 1998.</p>

Adventures in Shanghai’s surprising Jewish cuisine

To find the Shanghai Jewish Center on a recent trip to China, I drove by a guarded gatehouse, past a series of windowless buildings to a large white villa with an elegant marble staircase and grand portico. Inside the brightly lit foyer, a Chinese woman escorted me through heavy wooden doors to what must have been the living room, but was now furnished with eight tables and a wine cabinet. Two businessmen — one in a kippah — chatted quietly over their dinner.

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Opinion

A call for thoughtful dialogue

The human capacity to devise new ways to disrupt, terrorize, injure and kill appears limitless. And so it was on June 14 that James T. Hodgkinson, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, turned the congressional Republican team’s practice for the next day’s baseball game for charity into a bloodbath.

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