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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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guide of Jewish resources that continues
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.

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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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LOCAL Phoenix hosts 50th anniversary of Lion of Judah conference
SHANNON LEVITT | STAFF WRITER
M ore than 1,000 women gathered in
Greater Phoenix Dec. 11-13, for The
Jewish Federations of North America’s (JFNA)
Lion of Judah conference, which celebrated
its 50th anniversary of the Jewish women’s
philanthropic movement started by the late
Norma Kipnis-Wilson and Toby Friedland in
Miami, Florida, in 1972.

The group was founded to recognize
women who contribute $5,000 or more
annually to their Federation in their own name.

At that time, $5,000 (equivalent to $27,500
today) was the cost of resettling a family of
four from the Former Soviet Union to Israel,
according to a JFNA spokesperson.

“This conference is about empowered
women who are Jewish philanthropists, the
Lions of Judah, of the Jewish Federations of
North America. We have not been together
since COVID began and we are 1,200 strong
who are learning, singing, sharing what it is to
be a powerful woman who believes in giving
back,” Dana Keller, chair of the board of the
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, told
Jewish News.

“Celebrating Women’s Empowerment,”
the opening plenary featured high-powered
and celebrity speakers and panelists, including
former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from
Arizona; U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning from
North Carolina; and Katie Couric, journalist
and author.

“This year’s conference is an opportunity
to celebrate this unbelievable cadre of women
leaders who are touching countless lives and
strengthening Jewish communities around
the globe through their collective giving,”
said Carolyn Gitlin, chair of National Women’s
Philanthropy of The Jewish Federations of
North America.

The conference included sessions and
dialogue around issues facing the Jewish
community such as justice and equity,
communal belonging, responses to
antisemitism, access to reproductive health
and socially conscious giving.

Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of
Jewish Women (NCJW), was a panelist in a
session focusing on the consequences of the
U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this summer to
overturn Roe v. Wade. She also addressed issues
facing women and families more generally.

“Some of the negative things happening
around the assaults on reproductive rights,
around the impact of COVID on moms and
families, especially as the world tried to open
back up before childcare was accessible, are
some of the reasons people turn to NCJW.

We are a voice pointing out some of these
challenges and what it means to open up a
workforce when it’s not quite ready for women
and families,” she told Jewish News.

Katz arrived in Phoenix soon after attending
a Biden administration roundtable on
antisemitism led by Douglas Emhoff, the
Jewish second gentleman.

“You can’t exist as a Jewish organization and
not focus on antisemitism. So even though
NCJW’s priorities tend to be in the space of
women, children and families, we also have to
focus on antisemitism because we’re unable to
do our work unless we address the challenge it
presents,” she said.

Sigal Kanotopsky, Jewish Agency for Israel’s
Northeast regional director, also spoke at the
conference and told attendees a bit about her
personal story growing up in Ethiopia and
making her way to a Sudanese refugee camp
with her family before making aliyah in 1983.

The Jewish Agency’s mission is to further
Israel’s engagement by connecting people of
all ages to Israel while simultaneously building
Jewish identity.

“Thirty-nine years ago, I was on the other
side of the globe and now I am in this position,
helping other Jews fulfill their dream of being
in Jerusalem,” she said.

She found the conference inspiring “as a
woman, as a Jew, as an Israeli” because it was
an opportunity to meet new friends and spend
time with old ones. Being part of a chain of
NCJW CEO Sheila Katz speaks at the NCJW AZ
brunch event on Sunday, Dec. 11, ahead of the Lion
of Judah Conference’s plenary.

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women is a privilege, she said.

“My story is our story.”
Fifty-eight women from 58 Federation
communities received the 2022 Kipnis-
Wilson/Friedland Award, which recognizes
female leaders who embody the spirit and vision
of Lions of Judah through a commitment to
tzedakah, tikkun olam and community service.

Lions of Judah have collectively raised more
than one billion dollars to aid vulnerable Jews
around the globe, and today over 18,000
“Lions” are making high-impact gifts through
their philanthropy. JN
For more information, visit jewishfederations.org.

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