The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after security check. Erev Shabbat services led by Rabbi Alicia Magal will be held on Friday evening, February 2, 2024, 2024 beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom. The Biblical reading is from Yitro, Exodus 18:1 – 20:23, including the Ten Commandments that Moses receives on Mt. Sinai to bring to the Israelites as the guiding principles for establishing an ethical society. Rabbi will also offer healing blessings for those who are ill, a mazal…
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Sedona News – The city of Sedona welcomes Anette Spickard as the new city manager, a job she is planning to begin on April 8, 2024. Spickard comes from McCall, Idaho a tourist and outdoor recreation destination surrounded by National Forest about 100 miles north of Boise, Idaho. As the City Manager of McCall for six years, she dealt with many similar issues that Sedona faces including workforce housing challenges, balancing resident quality of life in a tourism economy and the need for multi-agency collaboration to move regional issues forward. Spickard’s background includes over 25 years of dedicated public service…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Double Down South” showing Jan. 26-Feb. 1 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNWOUVY6vjk In the dangerous high-stakes world of illegal keno-pool gambling, veteran ace Nick (Kim Coates) is enamored of smart, tough, and charming newcomer Diana (Lili Simmons) and is determined to stake her. Diana must prove herself in a man’s world to win a match against DuBinion (Justin McManus), the world’s best shooter. Soon Diana and Nick find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined. “Double Down South” will be shown…
… relax … good advice anytime and above you can see three American White Pelicans resting and resting in the early morning hours at Lake Pleasant. These are among the very largest birds in North American with wingspans up to nine feet! They are also one of the most beautiful soaring creatures and can soar at altitudes above 12,000′. They are majestic creatures and a treat to simply watch them do their thing. … below is a photo which is a reminder that a person was here who had obviously taken the time to relax … maybe fishing was a…
Sedona, AZ — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Promised Land” showing Feb. 2-8 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “The Promised Land” — from Denmark — is shortlisted for the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9U1E9cC5is In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) — a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero — sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “All of Us Strangers” showing Jan. 26-Feb. 1 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “All of Us Strangers” is receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences around the world and features a stellar ensemble cast, including Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Andrew Scott received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97iSjvqBlY One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has…
… beauty surrounds us no matter where we go … some of it is created by man and some created by nature! I was on the floor doing exercises a couple of days ago and I looked up at the sculpture of Athena which was created by Heather Soderberg-Greene and a shaft of morning sun was illuminating her … grabbed a camera, back to the floor and spent five minutes shooting the beauty before resuming my exercises. There is enormous creative energy in each of us and some have the skill to create art like this. Be sure to visit the website…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory What is, is what is. You can’t change it. It already is what is. Change, however, is always happening, so change, it will. We never know what will appear in the next breath, or if we’ll be given a next breath. It’s impossible to know. It hasn’t happened yet. There are too many variables, so many things in play, that just trying consumes every bit of energy, eating up the lifeforce like Pacman gobbling up dots bite by bite. The next song in the song of songs doesn’t have to sound like the current one and…
By Steve Segner – – Sedona, AZ — We agree with the new city DMMO (Destination Management & Marketing Organization) plans to encourage a targeted audience of upscale travelers who will spend several nights in Sedona. But first, let’s look at the numbers – the “facts!” The Sedona Lodging Council is surveying many of the hotels and resorts in Sedona to identify where their overnight customers are coming from. So far, the survey of hotels shows that at least 50 to 60 percent of our overnight visitors come by car from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Of that, about…
By Tommy Acosta — Sedona, AZ –The city is now tasked with managing tourism after crowning itself as the new Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for Sedona. All eyes are upon the city and its council as they walk a treacherous plank above the stormy waters churning beneath as they try to come up with a plan to curb runaway tourism yet attract visitors who would spend money and stay. Good luck. TripAdvisor just named Sedona as one of the most beautiful places to visit and stay. Everywhere in the travel business world, Sedona is being lauded for its beauty, its…
… for us going fishing or hunting is less a food gathering exercise than it is a sport, but for those creatures we see in nature it is survival and essential to life itself … each species has a part in creating a balance in nature … in some areas when the apex predators have been removed, the species they have kept in check explode and the natural order is disrupted. Probably no more dramatic restoration of the natural order was the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park in 1995.This video is only four and a half minutes long and worth the…
Sedona News – The city invites the public to save the date for its next artist reception on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers and Vultee Conference Room at City Hall, where paintings created by Karen Taylor and paintings and ceramics created by Mariann Leahy are on display through May 2, 2024. Special music guest at the reception will be Nathan “Saith” Gangadean. Taylor, originally from San Francisco, majored in Anthropology at San Francisco State University, which cemented her fascination with the broad range of cultural splendor and diversity around the globe. She…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection” showing Jan. 26-Feb. 1 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection” premiered to rave audience reviews at the 2023 Sedona International Film Festival. It is returning to Sedona by popular demand for a theatrical run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zVIlAitMFU She’d only just begun. Forty years after her death, this captivating, revealing, and unvarnished documentary provides astounding new insight into Karen Carpenter’s tragically short life and enduring musical legacy. She was the first in a long line of celebrities to suffer from an eating…
By Tommy Acosta For Republicans, it’s not really about who the candidate for the presidency is going to be. It’s about winning back the White House by any means necessary. The Dems are dug in, ready to rumble, united, and will steamroll anything standing in the way of another victory. The Biden effigy has been tuned to optimum pitch, and enough voters out there think he is still viable and ready to lead the country for another four years. Head-to-head, DeSantis will get crushed by the Dem juggernaut, the same as Haley. Even for the mighty Trump, beating Biden again…
Sedona News – Celebrate the music of Gordon Lightfoot when Eric Elison comes to Sedona with “A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot” live concert. There will be one performance on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. They call him “The Lightfoot of The Rockies” for good reason. Renowned Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Artist, Eric Elison brings his incredible performance to Sedona for an unforgettable celebration of the music of Gordon Lightfoot. Eric will perform many songs from Lightfoot’s considerable catalog including: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, If You Could…