Laurence Kutler, Ph.D., left Florida’s beaches and retirement to join Tucson Hebrew Academy as the head of school on Jan. 8. “Highly regarded in the Jewish day school movement, he has earned a ...

Ironically, the Chabad Tucson incident happened the same day the Anti-Defamation League released its Annual Audit of ...

Pastner is the son of Hal Pastner, a prominent AAU Basketball Coach in the Houston area. Sensing that his future was more ...

My mother, Mildred Harris (known as “Millie”), came from a religious, Jewish immigrant family that settled in the small New ...

On Wednesday, October 23, Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center (TJMHC) hosted an opening reception of the Allen & Marianne Langer Contemporary Human Rights Exhibit. The new exhibit is titled ...

As director of Tucson’s Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center for the past five years, Sol Davis, Ph.D., helped expand the possibilities for Jewish museums nationwide. “He took this idea and ...

From top left (clockwise): At a Chabad Oro Valley Handicrafters session, Rita Rosenhall displays a knitted vest she made, which kept her warm on a family trip to Alaska; Barbara Esmond holds up an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walking through the iconic main gate of Auschwitz. In January, I traveled with thirty-five of my colleagues in Holocaust education to Poland for the 80 th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Jessica Elisheva Emerson is happy her smart, steamy first novel, “Olive Days,” made the Los Angeles Daily News and Jewish Book Council summer reading lists, even though the book won’t be published ...

Tucsonan Mo Goldman remembers his maternal grandmother, Esther Praw, a Holocaust survivor, as a frail and anxious woman, haunted by the losses and the atrocities she endured. Esther immigrated to the ...