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My mother, Mildred Harris (known as “Millie”), came from a religious, Jewish immigrant family that settled in the small New ...
This JPSA Community Impact Grant has made a big impact at Handmaker, helping to make the Great Room more accessible to all. With these needed improvements completed, Handmaker plans to hold more ...
The Tucson Jewish Community Center (the J) will honor volunteers and staff, elect new board members, and celebrate the organization’s 2024 accomplishments in the Alice and Paul Baker Ballroom on ...
Tucsonans Barry and Janet Lang have teamed up with Jim and Sandy Peebles to launch the “Lang/Peebles $60,000 Fill the Shelves Challenge” to benefit the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. One in ...
The Jewish Latino Teen Coalition is one of Congressman Grijalva’s many important legacies and it will continue to honor him ...
NEW YORK (JTA) – The leaders of a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school are standing behind their decision to deny ordination to a rabbinical student who is openly gay, even as Jewish LGBTQ leaders have ...
A son, Danilo Judah Fredman, was born July 3, 2020 to Brenda and Daniel Fredman, M.D. of Tucson. Grandparents are the late Avery and Henrietta Fredman of St. Louis ...
At its April 2, 2025, board of governors meeting, Pima Community College honored Lisa Grabell for 20-plus years as a student ...
Jewish Women’s Archive has named Emily McDonnell to its inaugural cohort of Pomegranate Writing Fellows, a new fellowship for Jewish Women of Color.
At its April 2, 2025, board of governors meeting, Pima Community College honored Lisa Grabell for 20-plus years as a student ...
Two years after he retired from a 14-year Major League Baseball career as a second baseman, Tucson native Ian Kinsler’s time with Team Israel began.
Congregation B’nai Midbar is Southern Arizona’s newest Jewish congregation — with a 25-year history. The congregation began when three SaddleBrooke residents formed the Institute for Judaic Services ...