Dec 18, 2024 · Each qualifying organization offers unique programs to fill the needs of the community. Programs vary depending on the organization and include tuition assistance, helping with medical and living expenses or meeting special need requirements, providing the donor with an opportunity to support a range of causes close to their heart. Married taxpayers can take advantage of the credits for a ...

Dec 17, 2024 · This year, Chanukah begins at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024 and lasts until sundown on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. There are festivities happening around the Valley, so no matter

Jan 2, 2025 · For nearly a quarter of a century, Kim Gallagher worked directly with Greater Phoenix’s Jewish community, most recently at Jewish National Fund-USA and the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center. When she decided to start her own business last summer, Gallagher knew she’d miss the daily ...

Nov 12, 2024 · Adam Kwasman is the newest member of the Scottsdale City Council and its first Orthodox Jew following the Nov. 5 election. He wore his kippah and tzitzit “proudly” in his campaign literature and was always happy to talk to local media about it. After the election, he discussed how his faith would be important to his civil service. “I am such a proud Jew, and my Judaism guides every drop ...

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Jan 16, 2025 · The harrowing images of California’s wildfires have shaken us to our core. Fields and mountains are still burning with raging fires; homes and businesses have been reduced to dust and ashes; and the sky is darkened by heavy smoke and pollution. “Sometimes, G-d is beyond understanding,” my ...

Jan 10, 2025 · Happily, days before the families arrived on Sunday, Dec. 29, more than 50 people let Baer know they wanted to volunteer. Baer, a longtime CBI member and former Mensch Club Tikkun Olam coordinator, first learned about the Family Promise partnership program in 2023. “It piqued my interest, and I ...

Jan 3, 2025 · Rabbi David Rebibo first toured Phoenix in 1964 while investigating the possibility of starting a Jewish day school. Rebibo was there at the behest of a small cadre of Jewish families in the Valley that had contacted Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, a well-regarded O…

Aug 22, 2024 · While Arizonan voters are mostly focused on who they will choose as their next president, their next senator and their next representative in the Nov. 5 election, the state’s ballot will be long and have many more boxes for them to check. On Monday, Aug. 19, Temple Solel member and past-president Judy Schaffert drilled down into the details of Proposition 137, a somewhat controversial ballot ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Scottsdale natives Casille Kristol and Scott Lorsch love hosting their friends and neighbors for Shabbat. Every week, they pass out candles, offer a smorgasbord of kosher food, play games and, in every way they can, provide Jews of all levels of observance with a safe space to relax and unplug ...