People on the move

Temple Beth Sholom hosted a bowl-a-thon fund-raiser in January and presented a check for $1,000 to the Child Crisis Center. This year, Temple Beth Sholom raised more than $12,000 for temple projects.

Rabbi Barb Moskow, Talmud Torah director at Beth El Congregation in Phoenix, and Francine Richter, religious school director at Har Zion Congregation in Scottsdale, recently attended the 53rd annual conference of the Jewish Educators Assembly in Jerusalem. More than 150 educators from North America and Israel gathered for a week of intensive study as they explored how best to transmit Israel to students and families.

Cypress Homecare Solutions, LLC. has become the first private duty/in-home care services agency authorized to provide the American Red Cross Family Caregiving program in Maricopa County. The program was developed to help prepare families to take on the responsibilities and challenges of caring for a loved one at home and provides a variety of informative sessions covering topics such as home safety, healthy eating, bathing, and legal and financial issues. Cypress is currently scheduling community outreach classes throughout the Valley. Call Bob Roth, 602-264-8009.

Mitch Flatow, principal of The King David School, has been selected as one of 18 participants from across North America for Project SuLaM: Study, Leadership and Mentoring, a unique professional development program funded by The AVI CHAI Foundation. Project SuLaM is a program of RAVSAK, an international network of Jewish community day schools committed to Jewish pluralism in rich, creative learning environments. Working closely with program mentors and master teachers of Jewish text, participants will spend two summers on the Brandeis University campus exploring Jewish text and tradition, and bring the learning back to their schools to enrich Jewish life in their local communities.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Isaacs has announced that his practice, Southwest Hematology Oncology, will move to a larger facility effective April 1. The new 9,000 square-foot state-of-the-art cancer treatment center, located at Anasazi Plaza, 11209 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite 260, Phoenix, includes an expanded chemotherapy center and onsite laboratory. The core focus in designing the facility was to create an atmosphere that is calming and soothing to patients, who were consulted in the design of the new facility's infusion center. The move is part of an expansion plan that includes additional physicians, Dr. Andrew J. Buresh and Dr. Rajesh N. Kukunoor, who will join the company in July. Call 602-494-6803.

The Arizona Society of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery elected Dr. David A. Hecht as its new president for a two-year term. Hecht, who is entering his fifth year of serving the Valley, recently opened a second office location in North Scottsdale. Hecht is double-board certified in otolaryngology and facial plastic surgery and serves as the team otolaryngologist for the Phoenix Suns. Call 602-271-4966 or visit www.drdavidhecht.com.

Seasoned Jewish communal professional Kenneth L. Mintzer has been named Jewish National Fund's Greater Los Angeles Zone director, bringing more than 20 years of executive nonprofit experience to the 104-year-old environmental organization.

Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) has named Michael Holub of Washington, D.C., as the new executive director of the Jewish social fraternity and the executive vice president of the AEPi Foundation. He recently served as the director of development for The Israel Project, a nonprofit organization dealing with Israel's image in the media. Arizona State University is one of more than 120 North American college campuses with an AEPi chapter.

A new Internet store founded by Alyssa Kaplan, koshergourmetmart.com, is now available for the discriminating kosher consumer. It is the first and only site for one-stop shopping that offers more than 700 products from all over the world, including France, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Israel and the United States. Customers can sign up for the store's newsletter, which will include new product information, recipes and serving suggestions. The Web site offers a myriad of products made by different companies, and customers can purchase them in one transaction. Koshergourmetmart.com will also donate a percentage of its profits to charity.

ASU President Michael Crow has been selected to join the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, an independent national membership organization drawing together scholars, policymakers and experts in foreign relations. The council's primary goal is to offer a wide range of nonpartisan ideas to help educate policymakers, journalists, students and interested citizens on the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. Crow will join the group for a five-year term. The council, founded in 1921, has 4,000 members equally divided among New York, Washington, D.C., and the rest of the nation. Membership includes leaders in government, business, finance, media, academia and a wide range of nonprofit organizations.

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