In January, I traveled with thirty-five of my colleagues in Holocaust education to Poland for the 80 th Anniversary of the ...

Daniel Hernández, who serves on the Arizona attorney general’s task force on antisemitism, said he is also the first ...

Acclaimed songstress Neshama Carlebach is coming to the Tucson J, Saturday, March 1 from 7:30-9:00 pm. The performance, titled BELIEVE, is part of the 2024-2025 Beth and Mike Kasser Patron of the Arts ...

The Taglit day program includes two tracks, Avodah (Hebrew for vocation/service) and Ha-Ash-Arah (Hebrew for enrichment), ...

As a program participant shares, “As a caretaker for my mom who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease, the Memory Café is a ...

Sam Golden and Ellie Hutchison have announced their engagement. Sam is the son of Bonnie and Norm Golden, both of Tucson. Sam ...

In the recent past, I have lost many people in my life including my husband, Shelby. Four friends have died. Others have ...

Jay Baruch, M.D., was an English major in college before he went to medical school. This may have made him, in his own words, “a very neurotic medical student,” but it also gave him an unusual skill ...

In 2015, Miriam Ruth Black saw a news report about Syrian refugees trudging across Europe, seeking safety. She noticed a little boy among the crowd. “I thought, ‘There’s my dad,’” says Black, whose ...

Sometimes a Jewish ritual object takes on a life of its own. It can trace the history of an entire family, even an entire portion of the Jewish people. When that object is returned to regular ...

Each fall, the Southern Arizona Jewish community comes together to donate non-perishable food items, filling bins across local synagogues and Jewish agencies for the Project Isaiah High Holiday food ...

Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hanuka, Channukah, Hannukah — there are many ways to spell it and even more ways to celebrate the Festival of Lights in Tucson and Southern Arizona this year. The holiday begins ...