The Hebrew word “chesed” is often translated as “loving-kindness” or simply “goodness.” The Tucson Jewish community’s Day of ...

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

More than 1,000 people attended a vigil in Tucson on Oct. 7, 2024, commemorating the attacks on Israel a year earlier. Chip Rosenfeld says Oct. 7, 2023, was “a watershed moment” that inspired him to ...

The scandal engulfing media giant Rupert Murdoch, shown speaking May 24, 2011 in Paris at a gathering of Internet and digital industry leaders, is causing anxiety among some Jewish leaders over the ...

Rabbi Yeshaya Levin leads a prayer minyan at Tucson Torah Center. Rabbi Yehuda Palgon, the center’s outreach director, is third from left. Photo: tucsontc.org In August 2023, six young rabbis, recent ...

A University of Arizona Hillel Instagram post from Sept. 1, 2024, shows memorial candles for the six hostages found murdered in Gaza. As anti-Israel protests heat up again on college campuses across ...

The Maccabi Pan-American Games recently concluded in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Some 4000 Jewish athletes from 24 countries competed for medals in 20 sports in an expression of Jewish pride through ...

Clockwise from top left: Junko Nagao, Ian Arthur, Ital Ironstone, Nate Weisband Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona (JPSA) is pleased to announce the addition of four new staff members to its ...

This past Sunday, Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center (TJMHC) unveiled our new mural to the public. The mural was painted by high school students participating in the Museum of Contemporary Art ...

Arizona and Israel have some climatic and botanic similarities. Israel is lovely in spring — the hillsides covered with a plethora of bright flowers. Israel has a Mediterranean climate, with rains in ...