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Finding a Connection to Tucson
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The threads by which we as Jews all live by came true on Saturday night. In a Catonsville apartment, I asked my mother-in-law Shirley Cohen, who had moved here recently from Phoenix, Az., if she knew anyone from Tucson. Mom went to her address book, and pulled out the name of her friend Clair Naftulin. Mrs. Naftulin’s daughter Arlene live in Tucson. A call was placed. Arlene Madsen and her husband Phil moved from California five and a half years ago to Tucson, Az. They were taken in by the beauty of the community. And they loved that they could be who they were, a Jewish family. On Saturday, the couple was attending the play “Wicked” in Tucson when during the intermission, they heard the news of the gunfire, the fatalities and the injured. “I wanted to cry,” said… read more

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