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JANUARY 25, 2019 | SHEVAT 19, 5779 | VOLUME 71, NUMBER 70
JFCS chaplaincy program expands to West Valley JANET PEREZ | MANAGING EDITOR
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ewish Family & Children’s Service had long wanted to expand its hospital chaplaincy program to the West Valley, but the funds simply weren’t there — until now. Thanks to a gift from the Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, JFCS has finally been able to add a third rabbi to serve patients in the West Valley. Rabbi Tracee Rosen of Emeth Congregation in Sun City West has just started her chaplaincy work at Abrazo Arrowhead and Banner Thunderbird in Glendale, Banner Boswell in Sun City, and Banner Del Webb in Sun City West. Overall, the program covers 26 hospitals across the Valley. “This program is mostly for unaffiliated Jewish people who are in the hospital,” said Ellie Schwartzberg, vice president of Older Adults and Jewish Community Services for JFCS. “We know that there is just such a Jewish population in the West Valley.” Rosen believes that one of the most important parts of her chaplaincy is reaching out to the unaffiliated who may not be aware of the number of Jewish services available to them in the Valley. “Out in the West Valley, where many people are either snowbirds or have retired here, they are not originally from the Valley and they may not have ties to the Jewish community here,” Rosen said. If unaffiliated Jews find themselves hospitalized in facilities
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Arizona Jews for Justice helps asylum seekers released from detention centers NICK ENQUIST | STAFF WRITER
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ddie Chavez Calderon can’t imagine ignoring the thousands of migrant families ICE has released from their detention facilities. The new campaign organizer for Arizona Jews for Justice (AJJ) believes he has both a humanitarian responsibility to provide for these asylum seekers and a personal need to help them as a DACA recipient. SEE ASYLUM, PAGE 3
From left, Valley Beit Midrash President and Dean Dr. Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, pastor Ramon Madrid and Arizona Jews for Justice Campaign Organizer Eddie Chavez Calderon. PHOTO PROVIDED BY ARIZONA JEWS FOR JUSTICE
Marching Together A young African American man joins a young Jewish man during Phoenix’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day march. The Jewish contingent of marchers was led by the Jewish Community Relations Council. To see more goings on in the Valley, go to Page 20. PHOTO BY JOEL ZOLONDEK
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