In the last dozen years, Sheryl Bronkesh, president of the Phoenix Holocaust Association, has launched a group for second generation Holocaust survivors, broadened the reach of PHA and helped …
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Fredric M. London has a two-car garage and a two-car carport at his Gilbert house. All of those spots are reserved for Brass Era cars and other classics that catch his eye.
Janet Arnold Rees never really entertained the idea of retirement. She didn’t need to, because she loved what she did. She embodied the adage that if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. And through all her various jobs — teacher, preschool director, entrepreneur, th…
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Lifestyle
One of television’s most notorious cartoon antisemites is now an Orthodox rabbi.
When Seattle-based playwright and theater director Lauren Goldman Marshall first staged her original musical about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 1991, she had recently embarked on a journey of self-discovery prompted by the First Intifada. Working alongside Palestinian collaborators, sh…
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The Hippocratic Oath is something every physician takes when beginning a career in medicine. It’s a promise to “do no harm” and prioritize the patient above all else, lest the doctor lose their license and the patient their well-being.
Religious Life
One of my favorite things about this season is tuning into National Public Radio’s Chanukah Lights, one of the most successful NPR special programs over the past 30 years. The concept is simple: an hour-long program of stories about Chanukah broadcast during the Jewish holiday. As many of yo…
Opinion
This is a story that starts in the middle.
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“Why does everybody hate us?” My son Izzy asked me this question after a man with a machete …
Young Americans are being tested by a worldwide pandemic, with its lockdowns, lost education…
Apart from the ever-changing rules for entry that are driven by the pandemic and related hea…
US & World News
After former House Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head outside a supermarket in Tucson in 2011, it wasn’t clear if she’d survive, let alone be able to speak. Giffords’ injuries, which led her to resign from office, left her with partial paralysis and aphasia, which makes it difficult for her to speak.
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s health minister laid out his plans to simplify what he cal…
When Seattle-based playwright and theater director Lauren Goldman Marshall first staged her original musical about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 1991, she had recently embarked on a journ…
In a supermarket in Jerusalem, Ohad David makes a beeline for the most expensive olive oil in the store.
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I have a friend who only watches Jewish Broadcasting Service. Doesn’t matter the time. Doesn…
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The Declaration of Independence ensures that we are all endowed with “certain unalienable ri…
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Dr. Robert Ziltzer, 58, could have spent his entire medical ca…
A multi-sensory banquet awaits those who dare to take this ear…
“I am sorry.” These three words are perhaps the hardest to say.
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