Kirsten Miller is a groundbreaking feminist author in YA literature. Her first adult novel, “The Change,” was a Good Morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tucson’s team for the annual JCC Maccabi Games for Jewish teens, held July 28-Aug. 2 in Atlanta, was “small but mighty” with four athletes, says Josh Shenker, delegation head and director of children, ...

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 ...

Baruch’s latest book is “ Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER ,” which he will ...

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 ...

Some men go fishing when they retire. Some play golf. When Wayne Gould sold his steel bar manufacturing company and retired, he opened a car museum. “It started out as a man cave in a smaller building ...

There’s a passage in the Talmud that asks “Why didn’t you take advantage of all the beauty I’ve provided for you in the world?” says Rabbi Thomas Louchheim of Congregation Or Chadash, one of several ...

(L-R) Dakota Kordsiemon, Daniel Goldstein, Shawn Spitzer and Austen Berens paint a mural at a school in Kiryat Shmona during the “Day of Caring, Day of Sharing.” (Courtesy TJCC) Each year for the past ...

Beyond his musical compositions, Marc Blitzstein was deeply engaged in the political and social movements of his time. His ...