Jewish News

08/19/2026

Any AEPi alumni out there? Did you go to the convention?

More than 500 Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) undergraduate brothers, staff and alumni gathered at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa for the 113th AEPi International Convention, the

08/14/2026

This week's parshah is courtesy of Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, the associate rabbi of Temple Chai in Scottsdale. Shabbat Shalom!

This week's Torah portion, Shoftim — "Judges" — opens with the command: "Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves." The Torah reminds us that every healthy society depends upon

08/12/2026

Sunday was a great day at the ballpark with the Arizona Diamondbacks!

The Jewish community braved the heat and a stadium filled with Los Angeles Dodgers fans to attend the Arizona Diamondbacks’ annual Jewish Community Day on Sunday, Aug. 9, at Chase

08/10/2026

Sam Wagman is a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor. He survived over a year of imprisonment in the Wengrow Ghetto before being deported to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. After a harrowing escape, Sam and his mother hid for the next two years in the woods until they were liberated by Soviet troops at the end of the war.

Despite being born into an extended family of 50 people, he and his mother were the only family members to escape death during the war and the only known survivors of the Wengrow Ghetto. Sam immigrated to the U.S. in 1950 and graduated high school in New Jersey before serving in the United States Air Force.

He moved to Phoenix in 1970 where he spent his mornings hiking Camelback three times a day, hiking the mountain over 34,000 times. We are honored to have Sam throw the ceremonial first pitch as part of Jewish Community Day.

08/07/2026

This week's parshah is courtesy of Rabbi Sholom Twerski, the assistant rabbi of Beth Joseph Congregation and the rabbinic administrator at the Greater Phoenix Vaad Hakashrus. Shabbat Shalom!

As the summer winds to a close (weather notwithstanding) and summer break transitions to school for the kids, my mind turns to the upcoming Days of Awe with its themes

08/07/2026

It may have a new name, but the people at the center of Jewish Women's Action Alliance Arizona are the same ones who have been driving transformative change in Arizona for years.

For more than 100 years, the National Council of Jewish Women Arizona (NCJW AZ) has worked to advance social justice, protect human and constitutional rights and respond to the needs

07/31/2026

This week's parshah is courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Allouche, the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Tefillah in Scottsdale. Shabbat Shalom!

Did you know that the Hebrew word for “tunnel” (minhara) also means “light”?

07/29/2026

We extended the deadline to Aug. 3! Vote today! https://readerschoice.phoenixcjp.org/

07/24/2026

This week's parshah is courtesy of Rabbi Dr. Robert Kravitz, a visiting hospital chaplain, who coordinates the hospital chaplaincy program Valleywide for Jewish Family & Children's Service. A past president of Board of Rabbis, he volunteers as the senior chaplain for the Scottsdale Police Department. Shabbat Shalom!

This week’s Sidrah Va'etchanan opens with Moses begging God to allow him to enter the Promised Land; and God saying, “Enough! Never speak to Me of this matter again!”

07/22/2026

Henry Jacobowitz, a lawyer, volunteer, military veteran and Holocaust survivor, passed away on June 7 at 97 years old, survived by his daughter, Susan, and three granddaughters.

Henry Jacobowitz, a lawyer, volunteer, military veteran and Holocaust survivor, passed away on June 7 at 97 years old, survived by his daughter, Susan, and three granddaughters.