The Board of Rabbis of Greater Phoenix released a short video June 9, encouraging the Jewish community to remember its heritage and to find strength in community during a time of increased ant…
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Jews going into their morning prayers and Torah class Monday at Chabad of River in Tucson were met with a vandalized entrance.
Emma Schwarz, 16 and a sophomore at Verde Valley School in Sedona, won first place in this year’s Anti-Defamation League’s No Place for Hate® essay contest. Her essay, “A Generational Legacy,” was inspired by her grandfather’s efforts to spy on the Ku Klux Klan and report on its activity to …
Community Milestones
SHILOH MEIR BALSAM
ALIYA JAYE MELHADO
ANDREW "ANDY" CARLOS RUBIN
TODD FEIGENBAUM
Lifestyle
On Wednesday, June 2, the Phoenix Theatre Company begins its 102nd season — indoors and in person — with a production of “Becoming Dr. Ruth.” The one-woman show tells the life story of the famous Jewish sex therapist and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Neil Friedman likes to think of his company, Menemsha Films, an exclusive distributor of Jewish and Israeli films, like a Jewish book club.
Jacob Ollanik began dating a Jewish woman he met online last February. But a week after the lockdown started he found himself single again.
If “Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin” was a Netflix-commissioned documentary, we’d be subjected to six one-hour episodes with countless repetition, speculation and other means of filler.
Religious Life
I was delighted with a recent invitation to participate in a mah jongg game with a group of other women. I’d never played before, but always wanted to learn. I mentioned it to my mother, who has had a standing ‘mahj’ group for years now, and she gave me my grandma’s set to use.
Opinion
The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us to a place where with G-d’s continued help and blessing, we can hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us.
This coming Sunday, Jews worldwide will commemorate 27 years since the passing of the Lubavi…
The announcement last week that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is leading a group of Jewish and B…
The eight unlikely parties in Israel’s change coalition reflect the political contortions el…
US & World News
Israel’s 36th government passed a vote of confidence at a special Knesset session on Sunday night with Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett sworn in as the country’s 13th prime minister.
Thanks to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and the Torah, Mount Sinai is the best-known mountain in Jewish history. If the husband-and-wife bluegrass team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff contin…
The American Jewish Committee condemned Arizona’s plan to reportedly execute death-row inmates using a poisonous gas made infamous by the Nazis during the Holocaust.The state has purchased che…
Special Section: Senior Lifestyle
If you asked Shlomo Pri-tal 30 years ago what his retirement would look like, he never would…
Special Section: Home Design & Real Estate
People often have trouble figuring out what kind of design will work best in their homes, an…
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