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Chicanos Por La Causa to honor Jewish state lawmaker

It didn’t take long after joining the Arizona State Legislature in 2002 for Rep. Robert Meza (L-30) to realize change wouldn’t happen overnight.

Phoenix police’s Jewish Advisory Board looks to grow

The Phoenix Police Department’s Police Chief’s Jewish Advisory Board is seeking new members.

Jewish schools take different approaches to mandates and how to protect students from COVID

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey sparked debate this fall with his policy ruling out COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates in the state’s public schools. One Jewish politician has been vocal with her objection.

Community Milestones

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Lifestyle

Mark Oppenheimer’s new book on the Tree of Life shooting is an ode to an iconic Jewish neighborhood

Mark Oppenheimer’s new book, “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood,” recounts the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history through interviews with those impacted — both directly and tangentially — by the shooting, while examining the effects of the event on Squirrel Hill, the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Pittsburgh where Tree of Life is located.

The man who’s seen more than 400 Holocaust movies — almost every one ever made — has some takeaways

At least 440 narrative films have been made about the Holocaust — and Rich Brownstein has seen just about every single one of them.

Formidable fruits: Squeezing the most out of etrogim

Sukkot is meant to celebrate the beauty of impermanence, symbolized by the temporary structure under which one dwells.

What makes a movie Jewish?

“Although no one should assume that there’s a simple one-to-one correspondence between what appears onscreen and what happens offscreen,” writes Helene Meyers in the introduction to her new book, “Movie-Made Jews,” “most critics agree that movies matter because representation matters... What…

Religious Life

The better to see you with: When eyes aren’t enough

Even if our eyes glance at something, we do not always see it.

Opinion

Sharing my history of depression

I decided that for 5782 to start right, I have to share my truth. For this, I found strength and inspiration in the words of Rabbi David Wolpe: “A good year is not a perfect year, a triumphant year or even an easy year. It is a year in which we see goodness and do goodness.” By speaking out …

My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I am engaged to a gentile. Here’s how we remain family.

My sister and I grew up in a small settlement surrounded by Arab villages in the disputed We…

I Took My Husband’s Jewish Last Name. Here’s What It Taught Me About Antisemitism.

“G-E-T-Z … yes, that’s a Z at the end.”

A plan for Jewish security

In testimony this summer before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental A…

Bahrain’s charm offensive

Much has been written about the political and emerging economic significance of the historic…

US & World News

Holocaust denying neo-Nazi’s remains were buried in a Jewish man’s grave in Germany

After the remains of a notorious Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi were interred last week in the burial plot of a German-Jewish music scholar who died before the Holocaust, the church that oversees the cemetery is looking into moving the neo-Nazi’s ashes to rectify its “terrible mistake.”

In TV interview, Ben & Jerry’s founders say accusations of antisemitism following West Bank pullout are ‘absurd’

In an interview that aired on HBO, both of the founders of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand reiterated that they stand behind the company’s decision to stop selling their products in the …

How Meir Kahane’s ideas entered the Jewish mainstream

Editor’s note: Before working for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s sister site Alma, Emily Burack worked for a year on “Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish …