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One of the disadvantages of someone dying is that you can’t ask that person questions. They take all their stories with them.

As Rabbi Tracee Rosen was unloading boxes after arriving in Arizona in 2010, her new neighbor informed her that a local Reform congregation, Temple Gan Elohim, was looking for a rabbi. She and her family had relocated to Greater Phoenix to be closer to her mother-in-law, moving from Salt Lake City, where she served for six years as the rabbi of Utah’s largest synagogue. Her family attended Shabbat services there that Friday night and soon after, Rosen accepted an offer to become the congregation’s spiritual leader, a role she continued until the congregation closed in 2016. When it ...

Several synagogues across Greater Phoenix are ready to introduce new clergy to their congregations this summer.

A graduating senior listed the notorious Adolf Hitler-penned manifesto “Mein Kampf”...

Listen / What drives people to want to know more about relatives long gone — grandparents, great grandparents, aunts and uncles — who exist in nothing more than name, and sometimes not even that? And what does it mean to try to reclaim something that was theirs, even if that elusive thing meant little to its original owner, who might not even have approved of your quest? Author Menachem Kaiser has thought about all of it because in 2010, he started on a long, circuitous, Kafkaesque, sometimes absurd, usually frustrating, and occasionally poignant quest to reclaim a building in ...