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 ...

At its April 2, 2025, board of governors meeting, Pima Community College honored Lisa Grabell for 20-plus years as a student ...

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 ...

Handmaker has been providing kosher meals to its residents and the community for 60 years. With the limited options for kosher dining in Tucson, Handmaker has also long provided kosher catering and ...

On Sunday, April 27, at this year’s Southern Arizona Yom HaShoah Commemoration, we will come together as a community to commemorate 80 years since the end of the Holocaust. As in years past, we will ...

Ruth Mondschein, 94, died Aug. 3, 2017. Affectionately known as “Dr. Ruth,” she received her B.A. from Brooklyn College-City University of New York, her M.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D.

The Jewish Latino Teen Coalition is one of Congressman Grijalva’s many important legacies and it will continue to honor him ...

Elaina Espinosa (center) hikes in the Judean desert with her host, Inbal Fortus (left), and Inbal’s younger sister, Noga, in November 2011. A tree was planted in Israel recently to honor Elaina ...

DETROIT (JTA) — Blair Nosan grew up in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, attended the University of Michigan and then, like thousands of other young Jews from the beleaguered state, moved away.

Jewish Women’s Archive has named Emily McDonnell to its inaugural cohort of Pomegranate Writing Fellows, a new fellowship for Jewish Women of Color.

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, The New York Times ran a front-page article by Joseph Berger entitled “A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel.’” The article detailed the search ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Five million non-Jews died in the Holocaust.” It’s a statement that shows up regularly in declarations about the Nazi era. It was implied in a Facebook post by the Israel Defense ...