Sam Golden and Ellie Hutchison have announced their engagement. Sam is the son of Bonnie and Norm Golden, both of Tucson. Sam ...

In the recent past, I have lost many people in my life including my husband, Shelby. Four friends have died. Others have ...

The Jewish History Museum will hold its seventh annual fall fundraiser next month, honoring Tucson’s Jewish mayors. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, the current incumbent — and the city’s fifth Jewish mayor ...

Tu B’Shvat is more than one day of honoring our trees and agriculture. The holiday serves as a yearly time to reconnect with our earth and our community. By celebrating in Tucson, we learn from the ...

Hava Leipzig Holzhauer was due to start her role as President and CEO of Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona in December 2023. After the Oct. 7 terror attacks ...

Which of the following makes you the angriest: • Arguing with someone when you know you are right? • Arguing with someone when you know they are wrong? • Arguing in general? One of the comments I hear ...

(This is part of a special JTA report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who’s converting to Judaism in the AJP category Religion and Jewish Life, and about the 10 questions about ...

Jennifer Cassius, Anita Feder and Patty Vallance recently formed Family Friends, LLC, an estate sales company. Family Friends aims to help families with the distribution and disposition of personal ...

(Jewniverse via JTA) — Jews from Denmark first arrived on the white beaches of what is now St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands — a tiny speck off the coast of Puerto Rico — in the mid-17th century. These ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — In 1965, two young Jewish men, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered along with black activist James Chaney by Ku Klux Klansmen in a Southern horror memorialized in the ...

After Colton Zuckerman, a freshman at The Gregory School in Tucson, was diagnosed with leukemia in October, his family decided to encourage blood donations across the country. “Our goal is, by the end ...

Each fall, the Southern Arizona Jewish community comes together to donate non-perishable food items, filling bins across local synagogues and Jewish agencies for the Project Isaiah High Holiday food ...