Freedom, resilience and strength are all universal themes associated with Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the ancient Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. The fact that it is als…
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Trader Joe’s chili and lime-flavored rolled corn tortilla chips likely got a sales boost in 2022 after Jew-Tok (@.jewtok), a popular purveyor of young Orthodox Jewish culture on the social media site TikTok, released a video of college-aged influencer Avichai Cohen explaining why the chips a…
Flagstaff Mayor Becky Daggett quickly adjourned the first city council meeting in March after four separate callers abused the meeting’s public comment period to go on racist screeds, deny the Holocaust and hurl antisemitic slurs at the council members, none of whom are Jewish.
Community Milestones
GENE BURNS
DORIS RELIN DEGROOT
MORTON LIPPMAN
ZOE RIVKA LIEBERMAN
CHARLOTTE LANDAY
ELLIOT HARRISON KALAHIKIOLA BETTS
JERRY M. GORDON
GERALD 'JERRY' KEIZERSTEIN
DR. MARK ALAN WELLEK
Lifestyle
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 overwhelmed her and left her awestruck.
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 …
Lucy Greenbaum wasn’t sure what to expect last month when she walked into Temple Chai, the Phoenix synagogue where she was raised, became a bat mitzvah and first learned to love Jewish music. She had just returned for the synagogue’s “Cantor’s Concert” on Feb. 25, an event she had regularly …
Religious Life
There is a recently canceled cable television show called “Dirty Jobs” that portrays the kind of jobs that most people would rather avoid. Various episodes focus on people who work on oil rigs, in slaughterhouses, inseminating farm animals and cleaning septic tanks. You get the idea, right?
Opinion
(JTA) — When I first met Keith Siegel, he was the last of four siblings still at home. He was in high school, and I remember him pedaling off early in the morning.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A colleague on the faculty of Pardes, the learning community based in Jeru…
(JTA) — Whether it succeeds in its goal of destroying Hamas, or just deals it a devastating …
(JTA) — About 400 years ago, in the city of Frankfurt, a peculiar historical event took plac…
US & World News
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 inappropriate” and President Joe Biden commending the Jewish Senate majority leader for a “good speech.”
Israeli university launching unique mental health trauma center spurred by distinct nature of Oct. 7
How do you deal with the trauma of the deadliest day Jews have experienced since the Holocaust?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to call on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying that it must not be used as leverage.
(JTA) — Vice President Kamala Harris called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and placed most of the onus on Israel for a shortfall in humanitarian aid entering the enclave.
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