In January, I traveled with thirty-five of my colleagues in Holocaust education to Poland for the 80 th Anniversary of the ...

Daniel Hernández, who serves on the Arizona attorney general’s task force on antisemitism, said he is also the first ...

As a program participant shares, “As a caretaker for my mom who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease, the Memory Café is a ...

The Taglit day program includes two tracks, Avodah (Hebrew for vocation/service) and Ha-Ash-Arah (Hebrew for enrichment), ...

For the final event in the 2024-2025 Beth and Mike Kasser Patron of the Arts Signature Events Series, the Tucson J in partnership with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra (SASO), is proud to present ...

In 2015, Miriam Ruth Black saw a news report about Syrian refugees trudging across Europe, seeking safety. She noticed a little boy among the crowd. “I thought, ‘There’s my dad,’” says Black, whose ...

Sometimes a Jewish ritual object takes on a life of its own. It can trace the history of an entire family, even an entire portion of the Jewish people. When that object is returned to regular ...

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 ...

Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hanuka, Channukah, Hannukah — there are many ways to spell it and even more ways to celebrate the Festival of Lights in Tucson and Southern Arizona this year. The holiday begins ...

Thomas Alan Louchheim was born on February 9, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, the third child of Sandy z”l and Marlene Louchheim. He graduated Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he ...

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 ...

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 ...