A legislative panel voted this week to continue giving generous tax credits to those who help students attend private and parochial schools.

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The youngest Jewish group at Arizona State University, Jewish Arizonans on Campus, established a house this semester on College Avenue and 15th Street in Tempe in which students can meet and grow in their faith together.

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Speakers at a Phoenix memorial to honor victims of 9/11 stressed unity on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at City Hall.

The city of Phoenix will host a memorial in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday, Sept. 11 to honor the victims of 9/11.

Just in time for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there is a closer place to celebrate the High Holidays for those in the Gilbert Jewish community.

We've had zombies, demons, vampires and ghosts. Why shouldn't a dybbuk — the Judaic version of the possessing spirit — have a chance to finally shine again on the big screen?

To be honest with you, I don’t really care where you get your chicken sandwich. The thing that interests me the most about the whole Chick-fil-A, marriage equality discussion is wrapped up in the phrase, “the biblical model of marriage.” It interests me because there are assumptions being made about a “biblical model” that simply does not hold water. The Bible does not have that much to say about marriage, and a great deal of what is said does not fit the assumptions.

Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley announces the appointment of Rabbi Kenneth Leitner as the congregation’s new rabbi.

Family, faith and suffering are resonant chords in the symphony of life and harmonizing themes for countless plays and musicals. “Fiddler on the Roof,” the story of Jewish community and tradition in turn-of-the-century Tsarist Russia, is the iconic example.

If you ask Assistant Executive Director Adrian Bendick what her favorite movie at the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival is, she probably wouldn't be able to give you a straight answer.

TUCSON --- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out across a cold Tucson night in a rare public appearance Sunday evening at a candlelight vigil one year after surviving a deadly shooting.

Was it always this bad in America and we just didn't hear about it or care about it? Football icons covering up the rapes of 10- and 12-year-old boys. Mayors, senators and congressman using insider knowledge to feather their own nests. Lobbyists not only pushing for legislation but even writing legislation. Public service unions more interested in wages and pensions than serving the public. Military officers from generals on down lying and covering up atrocities and mistakes. Company CEOs and other top officers awarding themselves tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses. Banks who lie to their stockholders over and over again. Our Department of Justice not enforcing the federal illegal alien laws that have been on the books for generations. Homeland Security selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels that kill American Border Patrol agents. A First Lady who all of a sudden, before the 2012 election, remembered the sacrifices of our military families. A President who flies to different cities three to four days out of every single week. A President who's pre-election motto is to "lead from behind," don't do anything that you can be held accountable for. Our roads and bridges are crumbling, our power grid is inadequate to handle solar power. Even our churches have become "temples of greed" not "temples of worship." We used to revere our pastors, rabbis, preachers and priests. Now we won't even let our children be alone with them.

Chandler-Chabad of the East Valley is inviting the Jewish public to an evening of dancing in celebration of the Jewish holiday Simchas Torah, or "Rejoicing with the Torah" in Hebrew.

For religious leaders throughout the West Valley, messages to their congregations 10 years after the tragedies on 9/11 will focus on healing and forgiveness, as well as remembrance of those hurt by the events. The Rev. Jon Ierley, the senior pastor at Willowbrook United Methodist Church, said he will use an example of two close friends of his who went through a very difficult experience, and after 30 years of pain, found that forgiveness was their only way to release the pain.

For religious leaders throughout the West Valley, messages to their congregations 10 years after the tragedies on 9/11 will focus on healing and forgiveness, as well as remembrance of those hurt by the events. The Rev. Jon Ierley, the senior pastor at Willowbrook United Methodist Church, said he will use an example of two close friends of his who went through a very difficult experience, and after 30 years of pain, found that forgiveness was their only way to release the pain.

For religious leaders throughout the West Valley, messages to their congregations 10 years after the tragedies on 9/11 will focus on healing and forgiveness, as well as remembrance of those hurt by the events. The Rev. Jon Ierley, the senior pastor at Willowbrook United Methodist Church, said he will use an example of two close friends of his who went through a very difficult experience, and after 30 years of pain, found that forgiveness was their only way to release the pain.

All Jews are welcome to attend a Kever Avot service led by Rabbi Irwin Wiener of Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation at 10:30 a.m., Oct. 2 at Valley of the Sun Cemetery on Chandler Heights Road in Sun Lakes.

The American-Israeli Alliance at Arizona State University is hosting a bipartisan and interfaith event to celebrate Israel's culture, importance in the world, and courage at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Tempe campus, room BAC 216.