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of Cincinnati, she remains a faithful
Bengals’ fan.)
Both Hobbs and Ducey said they
wanted a smooth transition of power,
but there are definitely changes on
the horizon.

Ducey liked to say he ran the
government at the speed of business.

“That’s not necessarily a government
model that’s going to work for the
Hobbs’ administration,” which will
develop different methods of measuring
progress and success, she said.

With their social work background,
Hobbs and Bones will focus on
collaboration with the legislature,
agencies and the community to find
solutions, Bones said.

“We plan to engage with the community
and come at things from a perspective of
asking how we solve these problems
for people who are kind of at the back
end of whatever issues are happening in
the state.”
And Ducey’s large income tax cut
that will take effect next year likely
makes funding for some of Hobbs’
priorities difficult.

“We’re going to have to be creative and
I think you will find that social workers are
really good at being creative and finding
solutions and ways of solving problems
that other folks don’t always think of.”
Hobbs is a pragmatist and intends to
build a cabinet with both Democrats
and Republicans but her philosophy
is still centered around interagency
collaboration, coordination and looking
at the structures to see what will work for
the state and for the people who are the
ultimate recipients of these services and
funds, according to Bones.

In a Dec. 15 interview to Jewish Insider,
Hobbs said the rise of antisemitism in the
state and country concerns her and cited
possible strategies such as “strengthening
hate crimes legislation, providing security
funds to places of worship and working
closely with law enforcement officials to
thwart potential attacks.”
In mid-December, it was not something
Bones and Hobbs had discussed yet,
however, as they were still “trying to get to
the bottom of all the things that are gonna
slam us in the face on day one,” Bones said.

Antisemitism is “a huge issue” for
Bones and something she’s concerned
about, both because of her online
presence, and the fact that she’s a Jewish
woman. Bones is not a Jewish surname (her maiden
name is Gorelick) but people wouldn’t have
to dig too far to discover her Jewishness.

Her office has installed safeguards around
her and her family’s social media accounts
so that they don’t become targets of
antisemites. She’s also asked her 17-year-old
son, who is “understandably riled up about
antisemitism,” to tone down his social
media posts.

In terms of issues that Jewish Arizonans
might have a special interest in, including
maintaining a good relationship with
Israel, Bones said the administration will
maintain the status quo.

Of course, a lot can change over the
course of an administration and priorities
shift. Right now, Bones chooses to focus
on the good work she will be a big part of.

“When I started my career it never
came to my mind that this would be a
job that I would have the opportunity
to do. It’s humbling and exciting and
to have the Governor's trust means
the world to me. It’s something I take
very seriously.” JN
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to be published annually.

“In 1996, we were one of the first
Jewish community newspapers to launch
a website. I’m very proud of that,” said
Eckstein. “One of my goals was to take
the paper from a ‘mom and pop’ to a
full-fledged small business and I feel I
succeeded in that.”
Prior to the website and producing
the paper digitally, the typewritten sto-
ries would have to be sent to an out-
side company for typesetting. After the
proofed and corrected typeset pages were
returned, they would have to be pasted
on large boards.

“It was laborious. We had big boards
that we pasted the stories on then we
would put them in the trunk of our
car and drive them to the printer,” said
Eckstein. “The printer would make
a photographic image, make plates
from that and put them on the giant
press. I would be at the printers every
Tuesday morning looking at the pages
as they came off the press, making sure
everything looked OK.”
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Left, Flo and Paul Eckstein. Flo was the publisher of the Jewish News for 32 years; right, Pearl and Cecil Newmark, Flo Eckstein’s parents, owned the Jewish
News from 1961-1981.

COURTESY OF JEWISH NEWS
Eckstein said that her mother taught
her everything she knew about editing
and she learned the paste-up process by
looking over people’s shoulders. Her
father taught her how to use a proportion
wheel, essentially a circular slide rule used
to figure the percentage a photograph
needed to be enlarged or reduced to fit
the allotted space.

“Mother stayed on as editor for a
couple of years after Paul and I bought
the paper but then she left to become
the first executive director of the Arizona
Jewish Historical Society. That was pretty
awesome,” said Eckstein. “If she could
see what came of that today, it would
be incredible.”
Her father also stayed on with the
paper doing ad sales for five years until
he developed health problems. “I told
him he was the best salesperson we ever
had, although I wouldn’t tell that to the
other salespeople,” she said.

Eckstein’s brother, Steve, wrote a teen
column when he was a teenager, and her
sons and nieces would help during the
summers delivering the papers to news-
stands around town. Her sister, Diane,
who was a social worker, never worked
at the paper but at JFCS for several years
after Eckstein had left the organization.

“We were a family business from
1961 to 2013, when Jaime bought it,”
said Eckstein.

Jaime Roberts (then Stern) and Jeffrey
Stern bought the newspaper from the
Ecksteins on April 1, 2013. Then on July
15, 2016, they donated the entire enter-
prise to the Jewish Community Foundation
of Greater Phoenix, which committed
itself to maintaining Jewish News for the
community’s benefit.

“I have this profound gratitude, first
for Jaime and then for Rich [Kasper],
Rich [Solomon] and the board of the
Foundation for making the commitment
to keep it going,” said Eckstein. “They
expressed to me how they valued it and
how important it is for our community.”
Kasper is the CEO of the Center for
JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix
(CJP). CJP was created in March 2021
when the Jewish Community Foundation
of Greater Phoenix and the Jewish
Federation of Greater Phoenix integrated.

Solomon is the general manager of the
Jewish News.

Eckstein also expressed gratitude for
the things she learned over the years from
readers and community leaders, especially
about viewpoints that were different from
her own. She shared that she was much
more open minded after 32 years as a
community newspaper publisher.

“Every community needs a newspa-
per,” she said. “An effective form of
communication that is well researched,
accurate and timely and is a cheerleader
when it comes to editorial opinion — and
offers criticism as necessary. There’s a
Jewish perspective that only the Jewish
News can provide.” JN
Jewish News is published by the Jewish Community
Foundation of Greater Phoenix, a component of the
Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix.

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