PRETORIA, South Africa (JTA) – Filmmaker Laurence Gavron is on a journey to document lost Jewish tribes in Africa. The French-born Gavron, who has made Senegal her home since 1989, says she was ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (JTA) — A nascent Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar last month when 121 men, women and children underwent Orthodox conversions on the remote Indian Ocean ...

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 ...

So what’s your Yiddish IQ, bubbeleh? Don’t be too quick with your answer because truth is, lots of the mamaloshen (mother tongue) has entered into common English usage; think kibbitz, bagel, klutz, ...

Southern Arizona’s dark skies and its astronomy community are a huge part of the attraction for Shumaker, an avid amateur ...

“You don’t know me, but you spoke at Professor Thomas Meixner’s memorial service a couple months ago. I was going through my ...

Broadway favorites by Jewish composers include Annie Get Your Gun, Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Sound of ...

Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center is thrilled to announce a new initiative, the Rabbi Joseph H. Gumbiner Community Action Project.

More than 1,000 people attended a vigil in Tucson on Oct. 7, 2024, commemorating the attacks on Israel a year earlier. Chip ...

Dr. Bryan Shumaker and his wife, Linda, were winter residents in Southern Arizona for six or seven years before becoming full-time residents in November. They sold their house in northern Michigan and ...

Opening the curtain on its 34th year, the Tucson J International Film Festival starts on January 8, with in-person screenings ...

Nahary, a former cybersecurity analyst, will present “Practical Ways to Stay Safe Online” at the upcoming Southern Arizona ...