Valley View

The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (AMEHOF) has named veteran music journalist Salvatore Caputo as the newest member of the organization’s board of directors. He will chair the public relations committee.

The Valley of the Sun JCC (The J) and Girly Girlz Scottsdale have joined forces to bring a little glamour to its after-school programming.

Chabad of the East Valley has announced plans for its Sukkah Hopping Tour, which invites children and parents to visit four sukkahs throughout the East Valley in order to view and celebrate the different customs and traditions around the holiday and its iconic structure.

When Janet Arnold, the Creative Aging coordinator for Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JFCS), showed up for a Memory Cafe event in Surprise, she wasn’t sure what to expect. But it turned out to be an emotional experience.

For parents, there is nothing more painful than watching their newborn baby suffer and being powerless to help.

Amid a rash of high-profile anti-Semitic incidents and vandalism in the Valley last winter and spring, one incident stood out due both to its brazenness and the severity of the damage.

Jewish leaders in the Valley are reacting to the decision by President Donald Trump to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program over the next six months.

Maayan Bobylev has had a front seat to the unprecedented destruction wreaked by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, which has poured two feet of rain on the area, with more expected this week.

With the unveiling of a new logo, Gesher Disability Resources continues its transition from its former identity as the Council for Jews with Special Needs.

The community choir Rhythm and Rhyme is seeking adults over the age of 50 to join its sophomore season.

When Democratic Minnesota Sen. Al Franken took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix on Sunday, it came on the heels of the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a “white unity” rally.

When Suzanne Fuchs first arrived at Shirley Kaiser’s doorstep about two years ago, she was pleasantly surprised to see a mezuzah affixed to the doorpost.

The Valley of the Sun JCC (The J) has been at its current location for 15 years. To celebrate that milestone, The J is holding a birthday-themed party to kick off its fall programs.

The Jewish Tuition Organization (JTO) is urging Arizona companies to take advantage of the $5 million the Arizona Department of Revenue still has available before it reaches its cap for the 2017 corporate private school tax credit. The fund originally had $74 million.

Four decades of campers recently celebrated Shabbat together at a July 21 alumni Shabbat at Camp Daisy and Harry Stein.

A poignant handwritten note proves the value of the Roving Rabbis program.

Students won’t be the only ones starting classes at Pardes Jewish Day School on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Joining them will be Peter Gordon, Pardes’ new head of school.

The Arizona Jewish Historical Society’s Summer Music series holds its second concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 13, with “Klezmania” at the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center, 122 E. Culver St., Phoenix.

A new group for Jewish women attending Arizona State University will launch this fall.

The East Valley JCC (EVJCC) has reached its goal of raising $7,500 for a matching grant, as the repairs continue in the organization’s building after a pipe burst over Memorial Day weekend.

Two nonprofit organizations that serve the Valley’s Jewish community recently received grants to support some of their important programs.

The East Valley JCC reopened its building July 10 after a pipe burst over Memorial Day weekend, flooding its building and forcing a temporary relocation.

More than a dozen Valley athletes of all ages are in Israel to take part in the 20th Annual Maccabiah Games as members of Team USA. Dubbed the “Jewish Olympics,” the games opened on July 4 and run through July 18. Team Maccabi USA sent more than 1,100 athletes to compete against 10,000 other athletes hailing from more than 80 nations. Jewish News asked the Valley athletes to send photos of themselves as they prepared for the games. JN

Six young professionals recently earned their Orthodox rabbinical ordination (smicha) after studying for two years with Rabbi Sholom Skolnik at the Phoenix Community Kollel.