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Local rabbis and clergy gathered against Arizona’s abortion ban
AZ Jews for Pride was joined by 400 fellow Jews at the Phoenix Pride Parade
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OCTOBER 21, 2022 | TISHREI 26, 5783 | VOLUME 75, NUMBER 2
Group photo of Tax & Legal top tier sponsors and seminar leadership COURTESY OF RACHEL RABINOVICH
Republican candidates Kari Lake, Wendy Rogers, Paul Gosar and Mark Finchem have all had trouble shaking the charges of antisemitism this campaign season. KARI LAKE AND MARK FINCHEM COURTESY OF GAGE SKIDMORE |FLICKR/CC BY-SA 2.0; WENDY ROGERS COURTESY OF PBS/YOUTUBE; PAUL GOSAR COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
CJP’s Tax & Legal Arizona’s Republican candidates can’t shake charges of antisemitism Seminar back in person, tackling climate of change W SHANNON LEVITT | STAFF WRITER
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n Nov. 2, the Tax & Legal Seminar, Arizona’s premier estate-planning event, will take place at the Arizona Biltmore. After attending virtually the last two years, the state’s CPAs, estate planning attorneys, financial planners and many more will meet in person once again. Rachel Rabinovich, director of special projects for the Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix (CJP), is excited that these professionals are able to network in a more traditional fashion this year. “This event has a really phenomenal reputation, and we provide attendees with an excellent program, but they’re really there to see each other,” she said. Still, for those who cannot attend in person, the
hen Tony Zinman, founder of Tucson Jews for Justice, first learned about Andrew Torba, he immediately started worrying what effect he would have in Arizona. “I heard about Torba while following the governor’s race in Pennsylvania (Republican candidate Doug Mastriano was criticized for his relationship with Torba) and realized we’ll have the same problem with Republicans in Arizona.”
Torba, a self-identified Christian nationalist, began the social media site “Gab” as a way to establish a “parallel Christian society.” Torba said that Jews are not BY MH welcome on the site, which is favored by the far-right because it permits speech that mainstream social media platforms have banned. Gab was used by the shooter who killed 11 Jews in their synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. SEE ARIZONA’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, PAGE 2
The Singers share their art with SMoCA Iris and Adam C. Singer’s art is on display in the exhibit, “In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection” at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. See page 15. COURTESY OF SMOCA
SEE TAX & LEGAL SEMINAR, PAGE 3
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