Talya Simha Fanger-Vexler & Melech Mizrachi were married at Tucson Hebrew Academy on August 18th, 2024 (Tu B’Av 5784). Talya Simha is a local Tucsonan and Melech Mizrachi is from Phoenix. Rabbi Shmuli ...
Break out the schnapps! This year, Chabad of Arizona celebrates 40 years of serving the state’s diverse Jewish population with a gala dinner at Embassy Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Resort on Feb. 26.
Tucked away in two places in the Book of Proverbs is a brief, cryptic statement: “tzedakah saves from death” (tzedakah tatzel mimavet) (Proverbs 10:2 and 11:4). Surely this can’t mean if we give ...
The Tucson Jewish community mourns the loss of local philanthropist, businessman, and real estate developer Donald R. Diamond, who died March 25 at the age of 91. His daughter Rabbi Jennifer Diamond ...
Volume 2 of “To Tell Our Stories: Holocaust Survivors of Southern Arizona” will be among hundreds of books represented at this weekend’s Tucson Festival of Books, March 10-11 at the University of ...
The Bisbee-Douglas Jewish Cemetery, cleared of brush and debris, on March 17. (Courtesy Brooke Nagle) Every graveyard tells its own story, says Tucsonan Richard Rosen, former owner of the ...
What comes to mind when you think of a parade? Music, dancing, fanciful clothing, even a float or two? A Pride parade is all that and more: it marks an exuberant and enthusiastic celebration for and ...
A recent segment of NBC’s “Chicago Med” began with the story of a crowd watching a clearly disturbed young man in the midst of a psychiatric incident so severe that he was unable to recognize his own ...
Sharon Lichtbach Plotnick, left, knits a hat at a lunch gathering of The Knitzvah Project of the Northwest Tucson Jewish ...
It’s a special day when a THA Lion returns to campus to further our school mission of providing an exceptional educational ...
Gugulethu Moyo, the new executive director of Tucson’s Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center, comes to the job with a unique set of qualifications, encompassing both her career as an ...