Scottsdale resident Gerda Weissmann Klein, author, humanitarian, inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor, died April 3. She was 97.
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Scottsdale resident Gerda Weissmann Klein, author, humanitarian, inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor, died April 3. She was 97.
Her ties to white nationalists and antisemitic statements were removed from the censure
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix (JCRC) and two local Jewish community members are suing the state of Arizona in hopes of preventing capital punishment by hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz.
When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear.
Two key Jewish organizations in Greater Phoenix are set to join forces in order to increase their impact to the benefit of the community.
Eric Fingerhut, who led Hillel International for five years, has been hired in the same role at Jewish Federations of North America. And Mark Wilf, JFNA’s board chairman, hopes his new CEO will bring “energy and imagination” to the umbrella for local Jewish federations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on May 17, just 10 days before his 104th birthday.
A lone gunman entered Chabad of Poway in Southern California during Saturday-morning services on the last day of Passover and sprayed bullets into the synagogue, killing one woman and injuring three others.
Dr. Steven Pitt, a national renowned psychiatrist and member of the Valley's Jewish community, was the first victim in a shooting spree that left six people dead in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. The suspected killer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police were closing in on him.
Nationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and member of the Valley’s Jewish community, Dr. Steven Pitt, was the first person killed in a one-man murder spree that spanned Phoenix, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills over several days, leaving six people dead. The suspected gunman, 56-year-old Dwig…
Two Israeli Druze police officers were killed by Arab terrorists in an attack early Friday morning near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Victims of crime in Arizona have a new advocate on their side.
Anti-Israel campus groups in the United States are shifting their tactics, replacing BDS resolutions with “theatrics and disruptive tactics,” according to a report by a Jewish watchdog group.