One friend told me last year that she could never afford health insurance and worked full-time until she was 75. She was rarely ill. But since she stopped working, her health has been a challenge. She ...

“That’s the most off-the-wall thing I’ve ever heard.” Helmut Etzel’s mother on her wedding day. Her maiden name was Carmen Marina Rodriguez Perez Arango Mora. (Photo courtesy of Helmut Etzel) That was ...

The Tucson Jewish Community Center is proud to host former UA Women’s Basketball & Phoenix Mercury star, Sam Thomas, for the ...

The Wildcats took a challenging road to Omaha. After winning the Big 12 Tournament Championship last month in Arlington, ...

This past week, a colleague and I shared these thoughts about the tragic and senseless murders of two Israeli Embassy Staff members in Washington. We are heartbroken by the tragic murders of Sarah ...

Students attend the April 15, 2025, Jewish Student Union meeting at University High School. (Photo: Joseph Goodman) You don’t have to be Jewish to attend Jewish Student Union meetings at University ...

The 2025 Jewish Latino Teen Coallition in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2025 There is no room for courage if we’ve already lost the battle in our minds. Through the Jewish Latino Teen Coalition, ...

In a little over two months, more than 1,500 Jewish teen athletes, coaches, and delegation heads will visit Tucson for the 2025 JCC Maccabi Games® & Access, which will be held July 27-Aug. 1. Many ...

Last month, I went to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona on South Country Club Road to drop off several bags of food. When I arrived, I realized that I had entered the wrong parking lot; it ...

Congratulations to Lynn Davis, director of the Rabbi Joseph H. Gumbiner Community Action Project at the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center, for earning her Master of Arts in Jewish Professional ...

{L-R): Seton, Torin, Amity, and Debbie Claggett For the Claggett family, the Tucson J has always felt like home. Amity Claggett, a former ECE student and J-Care participant, represented Team Tucson at ...

An eighth grader and their first-grade buddy participate in Tashlich at Reid Park in 2024. Johanna Shlomovich loves giving tours of Tucson Hebrew Academy. “I invite anybody and everybody to come for a ...