Most Jews in Southern Arizona say their Jewishness is meaningful to them. They have Jewish friends. They know where to find Jewish life if they look for it. Nearly half say they want to be ...

Some years ago, while working in Jewish communal service, I decided to go back to school and get a social work degree.  I had worked for many years as a journalist and public relations executive, ...

I’m sitting down to write my final communication as Southern Arizona’s senior community shlicha, and I honestly can’t believe ...

Editor’s note: AJP Assistant Editor Debe Campbell lived and worked in Indonesia for more than 20 years. Returning in July on holiday with her husband, Gilbert Alvidrez, she visited Sulawesi island, ...

Charles “Chuck” Goldberg, age 7 or 8, riding a paint (bottom left), leads the Brandes School contingent in a Tucson Days Parade, circa 1950. (Photo courtesy Arizona Historical Society) Alumni of the ...

This year’s community Yom HaShoah commemoration will mark 80 years since the outbreak of World War II by reflecting on the vibrant and diverse Jewish life that existed in Europe and North Africa ...

Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center is thrilled to announce a new initiative, the Rabbi Joseph H. Gumbiner Community Action Project. Inspired by the social activism of one of Tucson’s founding ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — When Neal Shusterman helped his son Brendan with a second-grade report on the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench, he thought the name of its deepest location, Challenger Deep, would make ...

Ryder talked about her experiences with anti-Semitism in Hollywood as part of wide-ranging interview published in the London-based Sunday Times. “There was a movie that I was up for a long time ago, ...

Benjamin Ball, an 18-year-old senior outfielder at Hamilton High School in Chandler, starts each day by wrapping tefillin ...

Vivian Hanley will celebrate becoming a Bat Mitzvah on May 2, 2026,  at Kol Ami Synagogue. She is the daughter of Todd and ...

A son, Ari Dean Tobin, was born April 28, 2026, to Tracy and Scott Tobin. Ari joins his big sister, Shayla. Grandparents are ...