A new local semi-professional soccer team has its roots not only in the Old Pueblo, but also in “the old country.” “My first experience with soccer was as a young child in Romania when my father took ...

Elise Danino Hirshberg, a creator and enhancer of beauty, philanthropist, consummate homemaker, and true matriarch, passed away at home surrounded by her family on August 5th, 2025. She was 99. Born ...

My Passover column last year featured a translation of my teacher Rabbi Lior Engelman’s thoughts on the Wicked Child. Here is what Rabbi Engelman has to say about the last of the Seder’s four sons, ...

The Friedman-Paul Post 201 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America has been active in Tucson since 1950. The JWV was founded in 1896 and is the oldest active veterans organization ...

The late Jack Sarver was an excellent tennis player. In fact, he started at the University of Michigan on a tennis scholarship, but his need to support his mother, three sisters and a brother made it ...

Klezmerkaba will be one of four acts at the ‘Uniting the Community Through Music’ concert. Following a successful 30th-anniversary gala last November, Beth Shalom Temple Center of Green Valley is ...

Acclaimed jazz singer Sarah Tolar will lend her signature smooth vocals and heartfelt style to Rhapsody in Hope, a special benefit concert for Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona ...

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Retired Tucson Fire Department Assistant Chief Michael “Mike” McKendrick was inducted into the Arizona Fire Service Hall of Fame on Sept. 9. Mike worked for Tucson Fire for more than 30 years and, ...

This story first appeared in Jewish News (greater Phoenix). Alex Shapero witnessed the emotional response of Jewish victims of domestic abuse to seeing a new mezuzah on their doorpost and immediately ...

Capturing natural beauty with a camera brings peace to Howard Paley and joy to thousands who see the breathtaking images he posts daily on Facebook and Instagram. Along with landscapes, sunrises, and ...

Tucked away in two places in the Book of Proverbs is a brief, cryptic statement: “tzedakah saves from death” (tzedakah tatzel mimavet) (Proverbs 10:2 and 11:4). Surely this can’t mean if we give ...