Build it and they will come. Family and friends gather in the sukkah and over food, as Jewish people remember the years that the ancient Hebrews spent in the desert on their way to Canaan after being freed from 400[…]

After a year of construction and remodeling of the former retail store Gridleys, the Chabad Edelman Jewish Center has opened its doors in Fountain Hills. The center is the new permanent home of Chabad of Fountain Hills, which inaugurated the[…]

When Paul told the visiting students about his father’s situation, they arranged to visit him after the holiday. “According to the map, Kitengela seemed to be about a 50 minute drive away,” says Plotkin. The trip turned out to be[…]

Sharon Pulwer was lost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shortly after moving here from Israel to study photography, when she came across the black hats and modest clothes of religious Jews in New York City. A secular Jew, she was momentarily taken[…]

Yom Kippur is a time when it’s comforting to be in familiar surroundings, in a synagogue that you like, with family and friends by your side. That’s because you can use all the support you can muster to fulfill the[…]