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Ukraine’s Jewish President warns, ‘this might…
As the Russian military pushes ahead with its offensive on Ukraine, Ukraine’s president, Vladimir Zelensky tells European leaders that “it…
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Tikkun Olam Top Ten
ANDI MINKOFF By Shannon Levitt Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the word “testing” has generally called to mind…
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Beth Meyer: Leading the charge for…
Leading for Change has been shaping the progressive leadership in Arizona since 2013. Through their leadership training programs and collaborations…
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Join the first annual Israel Independence Film Festival
In association with over 200 synagogues and Jewish film festivals across North America, the first annual Israel Independence Day Film Festival will be held beginning May 4th and continuing for a total of six nights, streaming virtually to enjoy from the comfort of home. This important event brings together the potential of every community, no…
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ADL Arizona Meets with Mesa Police Department
On May 4, ADL Education Director Kelsey Greenberg-Young and Associate Director of Law Enforcement and Security Initiatives Matt Brown met with the Mesa Police Department’s (MPD) Hate Crimes department, at their request. MPD’s strategy for their involvement with K-12 schools in the Mesa area focuses on bias, bullying, and hate-related education. MPD intends to utilize federal grant funding…
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Rabbi Jeffrey Schesnol, 79, ordained last month
After intensive study to receive his Masters of Arts in Jewish Studies from the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Rabbi Schesnol went on to be officially ordained by the International Institue for Secular Humanist Judaism this past April. Although Rabbi Schesnol has been the spiritual leader of Or Adam Congregation for Humanistic…
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Gary and Tandy Kippur pay tuition for two years of university or trade school for class at S. Tucson elementary school
Tucson couple pays tuition for first two years of university or trade school for entire class at South Tucson elementary school By Mary Coleman Kold News 13 TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – Every student of Mission View Elementary School’s fourth grade class will have the first two years of tuition of a university or trade school…
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Arts for All Joins the Tucson J Family, Offering More Opportunity for the Whole Community
By Rachael Mitchell Marketing Director-Tucson Jewish Community Center On April 1, the Tucson Jewish Community Center (The J) welcomed long-standing, local non-profit Arts for All Inc., to the organization under the umbrella of its Disability Program Services department. For 36 years, under the outstanding leadership of Executive Director Marcia Berger, Arts for All, Inc….
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Israel To End COVID-19 Tests At Ben-Gurion Airport
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel is planning to end the requirement for travelers arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport to test for COVID-19, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. It comes as more tourists are arriving for the spring season, including Birthright Israel trips. Currently, arriving passengers must take a test at their own expense. New reports by…
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Live Screening of On The Map at AZJHS
ON THE MAP, from director Dani Menkin, tells the story of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team. In 1977, led by American athletes, the team toppled the four-time defending European Champions, the Soviet Red Army team from Moscow, en route to winning the European Cup Basketball Championship. Still demoralized after the 1973 Yom Kippur War,…
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New course on Values that shape Judaism’s civil code
Chabad of Paradise Valley and Arcadis is offering a 6-week class starting on May 17. Talmudic analysis and mind-bending logic have long been a hallmark of Jewish scholarship. But buried beneath much of the discussion and legalese are core Jewish values that fuel so much of the debate. This course examines a number of key…
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TRUTH TELLERS – A FILM BY RICHARD KANE showing at YWCA Southern Arizona
YWCA and Culture of Peace Alliance will present a free screening of Truth Tellers on Thursday, May 12 at 6 p.m. Truth Tellers is a new documentary film that chronicles the lives of courageous Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes of Robert Shetterly, an artist and…
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Phoenix Theatre hosts a new musical celebrating artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
A Beautiful Place – a new musical celebrating the life of artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. There, Friedl secretly taught classes to hundreds of children, giving them the ability to escape the world around them by using their imaginations and the remarkable power of art. The legacy of these…