From time to time, Rabbi Elana Kanter contemplates the life of Beruriah, a female sage in the Talmud, much admired for her breadth of knowledge of Jewish law and wisdom. Yet, as a woman of her…
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Temple Kol Ami (TKA) Rabbi Jeremy Schneider is celebrating a unique and quintessentially Jewish milestone this year. This summer, he marks the anniversary of his 13th year as leader of the Scottsdale synagogue (18 years in the rabbinate), and for the second time in his life, he is becoming a…
On Sunday, May 5, Congregation Beth Tefillah Rabbi Pinchas Allouche asked the hundreds of people gathered at the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus for a communal Yom HaShoah event, honoring the memory of six million Jews slain during the Holocaust, to stand for his invocation.
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CLAIRE EVELYN LIEBHABER
FRIEDA SCHILLER ALLWEISS
HAROLD OLSHANSKY
LILLIAN LENORE BECKERMAN
ARI PAZ AMBROSON
LINDA FARBER
Renee “Lovey’’ Borenstein’s Arizona legacy began when the Borenstein family — Lou, Lovey, Mark, Neal and Wendy — moved to Greater Phoenix from Queens in 1978. A year later, they opened Chompie’s Bagel Factory at 32nd Street and Shea Boulevard in Phoenix to educate Arizonans on the finer poin…
JUDAH VAUGHN GARCIA
DARREN MARTIN ZELL
Lifestyle
Phoenician Harvey Ost will celebrate his 100th birthday with family and neighbors in style at Ruth’s Chris Steak House next month.
Last fall, Susan Brooks and her husband took a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, a locale known for having some of the most dramatic displays of fall foliage in the country. After living in Arizona for the past 40 years with its desert palette, the beautiful colors of the forest trees overw…
Spectators were treated to an exhibition game by members of the Israel ParaSport Center’s (The Center) Hope in Motion Wheelchair Basketball Tour on Thursday, March 7, at the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center (VOSJCC) basketball court, inside the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus in …
Religious Life
We live in an incredible era but not without its issues. As recently as half a century ago, books and particularly Torah works were often hard to come by. Immediately after World War I, the Grodno Yeshiva in Belarus was not unique in its lack of a complete set of the 37 volumes of the Babylo…
Opinion
(JTA) — “Shalom aleichem [BOOM], malachei hasharet [bang], malachei elyon [thump, thump] …”
(JTA) — Banners hung between trees at Amherst College, proclaiming that Amherst should dives…
(JTA) — I am the only Jewish elected official in Rochester, the third-biggest city in New Yo…
(New York Jewish Week) — My son is in town from California for Passover, and on Tuesday nigh…
US & World News
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department told Congress there were credible reports that Israel had violated international law in its war against Hamas, but recommended against cutting defense assistance to the country.
(JTA) — Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins Sunday night, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and serving as a memorial day for the 6 million Jews murdere…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Unqualified public expressions of support for Israel from President Joe Biden. The United States and other nations scrambling to protect Israel from rockets. Congress accele…
(JTA) — Organizations and individuals around the world have donated at least $1.4 billion toward Israel’s recovery from the attack of Oct. 7, according to a new report published by Israel’s Mi…
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Phoenician Harvey Ost will celebrate his 100th birthday with f…
When Jewish Mayor Kate Gallego addressed the crowd at the ribb…
On April 16 each year, the United States recognizes National H…
LUBLIN, Poland (JTA) — When Karla McCabe was a child in East G…
