People of all faiths are invited to join the Arizona Jewish Historical Society and Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church for a special free screening of “Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance” on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 6 pm. This exciting new documentary film highlights the important alliance between African-Americans and Jewish-Americans that helped propel…
On Sunday morning, Jan. 16, the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) Copper State Post 619 welcomes speaker Joselyn Wilkinson. She serves as the Homeless Veteran Program Administrator for the State of Arizona and the Arizona Department of Veteran Services. Arizona is in the top three fastest-growing states in the country. However, with this growth, accompanied by inflation,…
No matter where you live in the Valley or Tucson, chances are you have citrus trees in your neighborhood. Citrus is part of “Arizona’s Five C’s” along with copper, cattle, cotton and climate. Arizona’s most popular agricultural citrus include grapefruit, lemons, limes and oranges. Early irrigation efforts in the 1860s, such as the reconstruction of…
Jennifer Starrett has been an active member of the Phoenix Jewish community since her youth. For the past six years, she has worked as a marketing and event consultant – helping plan, execute and market Jewish events and promote organizations in our local community. She created JewPHX.com as an online platform helping to promote Jewish life…
2021 will go down in the books as one of the best years in real estate and for Michael A. Pollack Real Estate Investments it has also meant the sale of five Valley shopping centers, many of which had been in his portfolio since the early 1990s. The sales, which all occurred in the fourth…
The Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi (RZA), the umbrella movement for religious Zionism in North America, took the lead in convening 350 Diaspora rabbis and community leaders together to petition the Israeli government to re-open the country’s borders to their communities as expeditiously as possible. The participating leaders come from more than 28 countries across…
Photo: A Magen David Adom EMT administers a fourth Covid booster in a nursing home. Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s paramedic and Red Cross service, began administering fourth doses of the Covid vaccine Tuesday to seniors living in elder care facilities in an attempt to thwart the spread of the Omicron variant and to protect…
JQY (Jewish Queer Youth), a nonprofit that supports and empowers LGBTQ youth from Orthodox, Chassidic, and Sephardic/Mizrahi homes, announced on Dec. 27, it received a $1 million donation that will enable the New York City-based organization to vastly expand critical social services to LGBTQ youth in major Jewish communities around the US. The gift, by…
The Sixth Cohort of the Americans for Ben-Gurion University Zin Fellows Leadership Program will begin in January 2022 with 23 dedicated leaders who have been selected to become ambassadors for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Israel in their local communities. Ari Ackerman from New York, Seth Harlem from Florida, and Susan Szafir from…
Photo: Shattered glass remains from a broken window at Kol Ami Tucson. Over the holiday weekend, the Tucson Police Department said Kol Ami Synagogue, formerly Temple Emanu-El, was vandalized, resulting in multiple broken windows and shattered glass. In a separate incident on Dec. 25, a group of people assaulted two men as they walked into the…
