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The University of Arizona Hillel Foundation awarded Olivia Mitchel, a third-year medical student at the University of Arizona ...
The following obituary was published in the Nogales International on August 6, 2021. Roberta Bracker Roberta N Bracker passed away peacefully on June 3, 2021, just one day shy of her 83rd birthday.
University of Arizona senior left-handed pitcher Eric Orloff, shown pitching against Cincinnati in March, helped lead the Wildcats to their 19th College World Series appearance this month. (Photo by ...
The Tucson Jewish Community Center is proud to host former UA Women’s Basketball & Phoenix Mercury star, Sam Thomas, for the ...
In a recent issue of the New York Times, a writer talked about how to prepare for retirement and aging with a focus on the various emotions one can experience late in life: depression, sadness, ...
“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 ...
JPSA young leadership volunteers and Handmaker residents with the boxes of school supplies they packed for Homer Davis Elementary School, June 1, 2025 (Photo courtesy JPSA) Volunteering is ...
On Sunday, April 27, at this year’s Southern Arizona Yom HaShoah Commemoration, we will come together as a community to commemorate 80 years since the end of the Holocaust. As in years past, we will ...
Allan Gorbakovsky Sometimes a Jewish ritual object takes on a life of its own. It can trace the history of an entire family, even an entire portion of the Jewish people. When that object is returned ...
Did you know that every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood? It’s vital for surgeries, cancer treatments, chronic conditions, and emergency care. Whether it’s whole blood, red cells, ...
Rabbi Helen Cohn, spiritual leader of Tucson’s Congregation M’kor Hayim, speaks at her retirement party on May 4, 2025. Cohn will officially retire at the end of June. (Courtesy Congregation M’kor ...