Handmaker residents have been thrilled with the recent enhancements to their activity programs. New art classes and music ...

Tempkin, 77, passed away on October 26, 2025 in Tucson, Arizona. Elissa was born on January 17, 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Ruth (Piassick) Shavin and Samuel Joseph Shavin. Elissa ...

Howard Polster passed away on Nov. 26, 2025, in Phoenix. Howard was born exactly two years before D-Day to Jerome I. and ...

Ivan Arthur Moravec, son of Bryan Moravec and Meg Knight, will celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah on Feb. 14, 2026 at Kol Ami Synagogue.

Klezmerkaba will be one of four acts at the ‘Uniting the Community Through Music’ concert. Following a successful 30th-anniversary gala last November, Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley is ...

Students work on a variety of projects in Tucson Hebrew Academy’s new Lions’ Discovery Den Maker Space This semester, Tucson Hebrew Academy opened the Lions’ Discovery Den, a new maker space designed ...

If you spend any time online, chances are you’ve stumbled across Antonia Lassar’s very funny — and very Jewish — comedy clips on TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram, or caught her co-hosting the “Yenta!” ...

With full hearts, we remember the life of Alvin “Al” Lightman, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of August 7, 2025, at the remarkable age of 103. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New ...

Jay Baruch, M.D., was an English major in college before he went to medical school. This may have made him, in his own words, “a very neurotic medical student,” but it also gave him an unusual skill ...

Niles Rendleman King, son of Dr. Sloan R. King, will celebrate becoming a bar mitzvah on Saturday, July 30 at Temple Emanu-El. He is the grandson of Nancy Niles and John Sjoblom of Fort Dodge, Iowa.

JACOB BENJAMIN SPIER, son of Monique Kornell and Jeffrey Spier, will celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 27 at Congregation Anshei Israel. He is the grandson of Vicki and Jerry Spier of ...

KIBBUTZ GALON, Israel (JTA) – In 1952, a 20-year-old with bright blue eyes who had never seen much of life outside of the Bronx, N.Y., mounted a kibbutz tractor armed with a rifle to plow wheat and ...