Shannon Levitt

In an ironic twist of fate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency that regulates food and medicine — including

Next month, Arizona’s first collegiate klezmer ensemble will hold a concert at Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC) on Thursday, Dec. 12. The ensemble was formed by nine professional-level musicians, some

Georgia Hunter will be in Scottsdale in January to talk about her Holocaust book, “We Were the Lucky Ones.”

Prince Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center are neighbors in Tucson. Both organizations were vandalized in 2023. This is the view from the museum’s courtyard.

The Sunday before Thanksgiving, several children, fresh from Beth El Phoenix Hebrew school classes, lined up outside their synagogue to pass dozens of frozen turkeys “hand-over-hand” to Harold and Ruth Thomas, representatives from Valencia Newcomer School. Thirty-nine turkeys and 50 Trader Joe grocery sacks filled with donated food, fare for a delicious Thanksgiving meal, were soon headed for the families of the Phoenix middle school, many of whom are recent immigrants unused to the American holiday.

Roni Lior, right, shows some of the items in a Joint kit given to elderly Israelis in need.

Saul Dreier will be talking and playing his drums at Chabad of the East Valley on Dec. 16.

Rabbi Sara Mason-Barkin, left, and Robin Roeder stand in front of what will be a room in Rosie’s Nest at Congregation Beth Israel.

Martin Shultz first crossed paths with longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer decades ago in Phoenix when the latter was a journalist covering both Israel and national politics. At that time,

Thirty-six Chabad rabbis from across the state of Arizona joined more than 6,000 others from around the world for the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. The conference, also known as the Kinus Hashluchim, brought rabbis and lay leaders from all 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries and territories around the world to Brooklyn, New York, from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, for four days of workshops and networking.