He was standing at a busy intersection when I drove by. What caught my attention was the small dog wrapped in a blanket that he pushed in a stroller. Also, his sign had a name on it: Leo.

Many local congregations have chesed committees. Most also have social action committees. Broadly speaking, chesed committees focus inward to meet needs within the congregation and social action ...

Israel is forever changed after the attacks on October 7, 2023. What does the future hold for Israel and the Jewish people ...

The Arizona Jewish Post issue of September 27, 2019, has a wonderful article on Willy Halpert, a nonagenarian living in Southern Arizona who had escaped the Holocaust as a young boy. I happened to be ...

Daniel Hernández, who serves on the Arizona attorney general’s task force on antisemitism, said he is also the first ...

DAVID JOSEPH AGUILA, son of MeMe Aguila and Daniel Aguila, will celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Tucson Jewish Community Center. He is the grandson of the late Marilyn and ...

A. Steven Ulin, M.D., died July 7, 2017, just two weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Dr. Ulin was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — On a recent Sunday evening at a Jewish center in Brooklyn’s Midwood section, dozens of boys and men — ages 5 to 40-something — practice their kicks, strikes and jabs. They are clad in ...

Congregation Young Israel appointed Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin as associate rabbi as of May 2011. He will work alongside CYI’s spiritual leader of 27 years, Rabbi Yossie Shemtov. Ceitlin grew up in Montreal ...

For most of the seven years Tova Kinderlehrer lived with her young family in Pittsburgh, she wished she were somewhere else. Her son wasn’t doing well in school, her husband’s construction career had ...

(The Nosher via JTA) — Everyone enjoys a good recipe hack, and I think you will love this one: two ingredient rugelach! That’s right: just a package of puff pastry, filling and that’s it. You can make ...