Past Events

Our new Pioneering Jews of Southern Arizona will open to the general public!

Jenn Budd was a Senior Patrol Agent with the US Border Patrol in San Diego, a Senior Intelligence Agent at San Diego Sector Headquarters and an Acting Supervisory Border Patrol Agent from 1995 to 2001 when she resigned in protest due to the rampant corruption and brutality she witnessed daily. After nearly 30 years of border experience on both sides of the issues, she came to the realization that our immigration policies have created an intentionally brutal system that, in her opinion, create an impossible, untenable process for asylum seekers.

Join us for Community in Unity featuring Rabbi Sharon Brous

Join us for the next installment of our Banned Book Club: Night.

The third installment in Rabbi Seltzer’s series on Judaism and Chosenness. This talk will cover how notions of Chosenness may ignite anti-Jewish sentiment.

Our new Allen & Marianne Langer Contemporary Human Rights Exhibit, Witnessing Violence: Help or Harm will open to the public!

Join us to write postcards urging others to vote! We'll have everything you need - pens, postcards, stamps - to encourage other voters to get to the polls. Bring your friends, enjoy refreshments, and stay as long as you like. All are welcome. Please

R.S.V.P.

Members of Tucson's inclusive and affirming congregations are gathering once again to march in this year's Pride parade! Join people of every faith and background as we celebrate LGBTQIA+ friends, family members, and ourselves!

Every Voice, Every Vote – Why the American Jewish Community and our Society more Broadly Needs to Work for an Inclusive Democracy, in which all voices are heard and every vote is counted - and what all of you can do to make it happen.

Join us for a discussion on local author Jason Zeitler’s debut novel, The Half-Caste!

The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman is a play about one of Southern Arizona’s local survivors and the first lesbian Holocaust survivor to bear testimony. Margot Heuman (1928-2022) was a survivor of Theresienstadt ghetto, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen.

Sign-ups are now open for our Educator's Conference this summer. Join us for a 2-day seminar on implementing Holocaust education guidelines. We'll include new topics, pedagogical tools, and an overview of how the museum can support you! Continuing ed. credits, breakfast/lunch, and limited lodging funds available!

Over the centuries Judaism, Christianity and Islam have each described

themselves as the children of Abraham and as such special and chosen.

It is a claim that has often resulted in the degradation of the other

rather than as a relationship of respect and honor.

In the schedule that follows, we will examine how each faith

community identifying as chosen, understood the meaning and

obligations of that belief as well as the consequences derived from its

denial of that legacy to anyone else.

Serge J-F. Levy was born and lived in New York City for 39 years before moving to the Sonoran Desert. He will be presenting a selection of street, documentary and landscape photography from his 30 year career alongside his writing reflecting on his experience as a Jew in America. Q + A to follow.

Over the centuries Judaism, Christianity and Islam have each described

themselves as the children of Abraham and as such special and chosen.

It is a claim that has often resulted in the degradation of the other

rather than as a relationship of respect and honor.

In the schedule that follows, we will examine how each faith

community identifying as chosen, understood the meaning and

obligations of that belief as well as the consequences derived from its

denial of that legacy to anyone else.

When it comes to German efforts to confront the Nazi past, conventional approaches tend to focus on solemn statements and well-meant monuments.

Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (Belknap/Harvard, 2023) looks instead at the very concrete ways in which postwar Germans embraced the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust—above all in response to other genocides that took place elsewhere after 1945 in places like Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. This innovative approach makes the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear.

Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis is a new, critically acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a satirical sci-fi opera written in 1943 by two Jewish creators while they were imprisoned in Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp. Writer Dave Maass visits the Tucson Jewish Museum with a visual presentation that covers the research that went into adapting the book for Dark Horse Comics, the secret symbolism and references embedded in the artwork, and how the book came together under the guidance of legendary comics editor Karen Berger (The Sandman).

TJMHC is excited to reimagine Southern Arizona’s original Purim Ball!

In the early 1900s, the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society held a Purim Ball to raise funds to build the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory. Built in 1910, this space is now home to the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center. Make plans now to join us as we celebrate their original vision and determination in creating a heart for Southern Arizona Jewish Life.

Join us to hear about the history of abortion rights in Arizona, learn about the Arizona Abortion Access Initiative, and discover how you can help advance these efforts! Signature-gathering training will be provided and lunch will be served.

Join us for a conversation on George M. Johnson’s “memoir-manifesto” essay collection on queer Black life

Come learn about the potential overlap between community and art through MOCA Education Manager Harrison Orr’s collaboration with TJMHC in creating our new mural!

Harrison (he/him/his) is the Education Manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson and an Adjunct Instructor of Art & Visual Culture Education at The University of Arizona. He earned a BFA in Media Arts and an MA in Art & Visual Culture Education at The University of Arizona.

Elaine Leeder has spent the last 28 years in and out of prison. Working with both victims and perpetrators, through the lens of Restorative Justice, has shown her that redemption, remorse, and contrition exist behind the walls.

As part of the JCRC's Hineni lecture series, Dr. Leeder will discuss the Jewish values and spirituality like teshuvah (charity), chesed (loving kindness) and tikkun olam (the act of repairing the world) that deeply inform her work.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Society with generous support from Jewish Philanthropies for Southern Arizona.

Ever wonder what the lives of your grandparents or great-grandparents were before they emigrated from Eastern Europe? Imagine finding mention of your ancestors names or even articles about them. This talk discusses a whole genre’ of literature that contains this information. Originally written in Yiddish and Hebrew, these Memorial or Yizkor books are now being translated into English by JewishGen Press. This project is revealing the intimate history of the destroyed Eastern European Jewish communities. Come and hear from Joel Alpert about this work!

Attendees will be able to explore TJMHC’s collection of JewishGen Press materials.

This event is free but pre-registration is required.

How does one remember what was hidden for so long? In Siglos. Sueños. Sefarad. Tucson-based choreographer Yvonne Montoya explores where ancestral memories live in the body as she remembers the experiences of the Sephardic Jews during and after the Spanish Inquisition. As a direct descendent of the B'nei Anusim of Spain and Portugal, Siglos. Sueños. Sefarad. is dedicated to her Sephardic ancestors who took refuge from the Spanish and Mexican Inquisitions in Northern New Mexico.

Siglos. Sueños. Sefarad. is an excerpt of Stories from Home. Stories From Home is a series of dances embodying the oral traditions of Latino communities in the American Southwest, centering Nuevomexicana, Xicana, and Mexican American bodies, aesthetics, and experiences. Montoya draws upon personal histories as well as ancestral knowledge, including stories from her great-grandmother, grandmother, great-aunts, and father.

The performance will be preceded by a Storytelling + Luminaria making workshop open to participants of all ages.

This event is free but pre-registration is required.

TJMHC welcomes Dov Waxman to continue our ongoing conversations around antisemitism as we explore the debate around antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel sentiment.

Register below for our upcoming Banned Book Club Meeting on Thursday, Jan. 4th at 6 PM!

Starting at 6PM, we will meet for a discussion moderated by artist & educator Lin Lucas

Register at timhc.org/banned-book-club

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