To kick off the year, the entire middle school traveled to Mount Lemmon for an exciting retreat. Students got to know each other and their teachers in the cool mountain air, enjoying s’mores, hot ...

Our days in Shushan have ended for this year, yet there is a way of staying here a bit longer because Purim is in the month of Adar. Our rabbis stated: “ Mi-shenikhnas Adar marbim b’simcha; when Adar ...

Mitzvah Magic, a joint program of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona Women’s Philanthropy and Jewish Family & Children’s Services, is seeking new volunteers. “As a staple program for local ...

Gilbert (Gil) Alan Kurland, 86, died April 6, 2017. Mr. Kurland had a long career with the New York Life Insurance Co., first in the Cleveland area and later in Tucson. Survivors include his wife of ...

The show — created by Darren Star, of “Sex and the City” and “Beverly Hills, 90210“ fame — has already impressed us with its Jewish content. In the first season, one of Liza’s young new friends, ...

The argument for a one-state solution where the West Bank, excluding Gaza, becomes part of Israel is no solution at all. In his opinion article in the AJP, Aug. 6, 2010 (“Is a one-state solution, ...

Purim and Passover, which both encourage drinking, may be behind us, but every Kiddush, every simcha is another opportunity to raise a glass and say l’chaim. And to seriously overdo things. In reality ...

Doris Fleischman, 92, died Jan. 11, 2020. Mrs. Fleischman was born in New York City and raised primarily in Los Angeles, where she met her husband, Alvin, on a blind date. They married in 1950, and ...