Dan Asia, second from right, carries Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging’s Czech Holocaust Torah during a commemorative event at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society in Phoenix on Feb. 25, 2024. ...
On Wednesday, October 23, Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center (TJMHC) hosted an opening reception of the Allen & Marianne Langer Contemporary Human Rights Exhibit. The new exhibit is titled ...
A destroyed Jewish clothing store in Magdeburg, Germany, after Kristallnacht, Nov. 11, 1938. (H. Frederick, Hanover) NEW YORK (JTA) — Before it was called Kristallnacht, it was known simply as “the ...
Growing up in Tucson, Alanna “Lonnie” Kleinman did not know any female rabbis or any religious leaders who identified as LGTBQ. Now Kleinman is joining a much more diverse rabbinate, one that more ...
This month, as I am finishing my tenth year as CEO + President of the Tucson J – what I know to be one of the pre-eminent JCC’s in North America – I’d be remiss not to take a moment to honor all we ...
As 5777 draws to a close, here are some members of the tribe — representing areas as diverse as pop culture to politics — we’ve mourned since last Rosh Hashanah. Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in ...
Nahary, a former cybersecurity analyst, will present “Practical Ways to Stay Safe Online” at the upcoming Southern Arizona ...
CHICAGO (JTA) — I am an infectious disease epidemiologist who worked at the World Health Organization on epidemics in over 25 countries around the world. As a physician and member of the Jewish ...
Beatrice Lippel, 82, died Sept. 24, 2018. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she was the eldest of three children. An accomplished pianist, she earned her bachelor’s in music at Brooklyn College ...
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona (JFCS) is thrilled to reinitiate its Resettlement Services. For 18 years, JFCS helped newly arrived refugees settle into the Tucson community, ...
Ask any Tucson Hebrew Academy (THA) 8th grade graduate about their Jewish capstone trip, and you’ll hear their experience was awe-inspiring, magical, and indescribable. The THA 8th grade Jewish ...
Rabbi Yeshaya Levin leads a prayer minyan at Tucson Torah Center. Rabbi Yehuda Palgon, the center’s outreach director, is third from left. Photo: tucsontc.org In August 2023, six young rabbis, recent ...