When Nancy Eisenberg began her career in 1977, there were relatively few women doing research in developmental psychology. Throughout her 44-year career, she’s watched women increase in number…
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Roughly one year after her death, Janet Arnold Rees, former senior concierge and creative aging coordinator for Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JFCS), founder of Arizona Jewish Theatre Company (AJTC) and devoted friend to Greater Phoenix’s Jewish community, was honored by U.S. Rep. G…
Salamone Rossi composed modern dances, sonatas and Italian love songs for the entertainment of Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Italy, in the early 17th century. Rossi’s music was well-known and well-loved. Several of his 313 compositions were so popular they had to be reprinted.
Community Milestones
SHELDON ROBERT ROTH
MARIE-CLAIRE MIRIAM OBADIA
MARVIN M. FREEMAN
MARIA RUIZ VIEIRA AND CHARLES GONSHER
EVA SKYE MARKOWITZ
NAVA CHAYA SHLEMA
ARIK LEV SCHURE
PATRICIA ANN SANDS LIBERMAN BRUNER
LOIS JOAN ZACHARY
Lifestyle
BJ Borris came to Phoenix’s Temple Chai on Oct. 29 prepared to dance.
(JTA) – Trish Adlesic was visiting her father in Pittsburgh on the day a gunman walked into the city’s Tree of Life synagogue building and murdered 11 people.
On Oct. 1, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) opened its latest exhibition: “In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection.” A snapshot of 40 paintings by 27 artists, “In Our Time” is a moving, high-concept and reflective showcase for artists from the African Diaspora. Th…
The annual art event, Hidden in the Hills Artist Studio Tour (HITH), allows the public to peek into the private studios of artists to learn about their methodology and process and purchase art directly from creators.
Religious Life
Thanksgiving is family time. Families come together, connect over a meal, enjoy and bicker and tease as family members do — but we come together. We recall how a group of Pilgrims came over to escape religious persecution. How they made a perilous journey and came to these shores to be subje…
Opinion
Every day, prosecutors use vast discretion to decide who is charged with a crime and how severe those charges will be. Unfortunately, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) has used that power to create a legacy of seeking harsh convictions and excessive sentences for low-level crimes.…
With antisemitism making headlines this week, I’ve been trying to find ways that I, as a you…
In her new book “Bad Jews,” Emily Tamkin frames recent American Jewish communal politics as …
Tom Stoppard is one of those playwrights who flatters you with his erudition. His 1993 play …
Turkey appointed a new ambassador to Israel in early October in what is a long overdue step …
US & World News
(JTA) — Two bombs rocked bus stops at crowded entrances to Jerusalem early Wednesday morning, killing a teenager and sending about 20 people to the hospital, some in serious condition.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel will not cooperate with an FBI investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist who died in May in an exchange of fire between…
(JTA) — Hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the first time since he faced widespread criticism about jokes ridiculing transgender people, comedian Dave Chappelle opened the show with a lengthy m…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Few of the American Jewish groups who would not speak out about the prospect of extremists in government before Israel’s elections have done so the day after, even though It…
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Event Smart Productions’ executive producers Sean Wallace and …
A bat mitzvah celebration may not only bring thoughts of Torah…
Special Section: Charitable Giving
The calendar says the holiday season is coming, yet there’s no…
Charitable giving is increasingly considered both a privilege …
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