Ellen O'Brien

Holocaust educators celebrated a long-awaited victory on Monday: the addition of Holocaust education to Arizo…

Four years ago, it was only a dream: a Jewish community high school in Scottsdale for teenagers from all back…

Services haven't been the same without congregants in the room, and seeing familiar faces, even ones obscured…

After 30 years at the helm of Ruach Hamidbar-Spirit of the Desert, Rabbi Sarah Leah Grafstein is ready to han…

When a Spanish soprano met a Jewish jazz bassist in 2013, neither of them imagined where their creative partn…

As darkness fell on Monday, Sept. 21, the lawn beside the Arizona State Capitol lit up with the glow of dozen…

In a world beset with uncertainty, the knowledge that Rabbi Jeremy Schneider will be there today, tomorrow an…

Touch, kiss, say: On Thursday, Sept. 10, eight students from Gesher Disability Resources touched the Torah, k…

Kosher meals in state-run correctional facilities have been replaced by a vegan option, which the Arizona Dep…

Two weeks after anti-Semitic posters appeared on Arizona State University's Tempe campus, the Undergraduate S…

When Koral Zaarur saw the pictures circulating on Twitter and Instagram, she thought they were from another c…

Standing alone in the studio, bright triangles of sunlight dappling cream walls lined with mirrors and wooden…

Most mornings at 9 a.m., a support specialist at First Place-Phoenix knocks on Matt Resnik's door, and his Al…

Tortillas and matzah. Cilantro and parsley. Gefilte fish and gefilte fish à la Veracruzana. When Joan Baron a…

The night that Chris and Jen Rogers went to the hospital to deliver their twin sons, Soren and Paxton, the ho…

Across Greater Phoenix, various businesses - from artisan popsicle makers and gift shops to printing and mark…

As COVID-19 swept across the Navajo Nation this year, one member of the Navajo Nation Council turned to a com…

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valerie Smilovic worried that the risk of infection would drive do…

For 12 years, Congregation Merkaz Ha-Iyr provided community, belonging and Jewish learning to a small group o…

Decades of service leave a mark on an organization, and last month, the Arizona Opera voted to make that mark…

This semester has not turned out the way students at Arizona State University imagined it would. With classes…

What does a Shabbat service look like with no congregants? How does one study Torah via a computer screen and…

With two weeks until Passover, the Greater Phoenix Jewish community is anticipating muted celebrations amid C…

Arizona’s Department of Health Services has reported two confirmed and three presumed cases of COVID-19. Seve…