Best-selling author Saul Singer didn’t know how profound his research for his latest book with Dan Senor, “The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Troubled Wor…
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As soon as Andy Stodola turned 13, his mother, Susan, decided that one day her son would need a certain level of independence, allowing him to “live his own life” despite his disability; she told a breakfast gathering of Gesher Disability Resources’ supporters on a Friday morning in mid-April.
Mark Slepak and his wife, Pam, were among the first Congregation Beth Israel (CBI) members to select a colorful wall panel that will soon decorate a small piece of the Bandler Family Park and Field at CBI. One glimpse of a rainbow image convinced Slepak the panel would be the perfect bridge …
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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
GENE BURNS
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
About 30 years ago, I attended a dear friend’s Christmas party. Her family adhered to the Eastern Orthodox tradition, but her celebration with friends aligned with Christmas on the Gregorian calendar that year. Among her array of friends, I was the only Jew in the room. The evening was vibra…
Opinion
(JTA) — Banners hung between trees at Amherst College, proclaiming that Amherst should divest from genocide, that Jews demanded divestment.
(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…
I must honestly say, the question of what a Jewish reaction to the upholding of the 19th-cen…
US & World News
(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 murdered by the Nazis. This year, as the Israel-Hamas war enters its seventh month, the day takes on added symbolism: It is the first Yom HaShoah since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which was the deadliest day for J…
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…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Fallout from Chuck Schumer’s speech last week pushing for new elections in Israel is continuing, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it “totally inappropr…
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On April 16 each year, the United States recognizes National H…
LUBLIN, Poland (JTA) — When Karla McCabe was a child in East G…
