Humane Borders, a local nonprofit, works to mitigate the border crisis by maintaining a system of water stations on the routes used by migrants making the perilous journey to the United States on foot.

Join us for a conversation with Laurie Cantillo, executive director, and Steve Saltonstall, board member and volunteer, to learn more about what this humanitarian crisis looks like on the ground.

Join us for a panel with Joel Waldman & Mimi Zieman, two Tucson Festival of Books featured authors who will be speaking to their literary accomplishments in the context of their position as children of Holocaust survivors along with local child of survivors and literary editor Raisa Moroz

The Purim Pioneer Ball is a community celebration that builds on the tradition and insight of the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society who started the first Purim event in Tucson. Those events helped raise funds for the building of the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory that became the current home for the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center.

In addition to that tradition, TJMHC presents the Queen Esther Award for the individual who works to make our community stronger and safer. The 2025 honoree is Hedy Feuer!

Join us for child of survivors Su Neuhauser’s description of her efforts to commemorate her family’s history, place stumbling stones in her honor, acquire her Austrian citizenship, and more.

Whether it’s handling conflict, confronting a friend, expressing an unpopular idea, or trying to have a conversation whose opinions and values differ from our own, we all encounter challenging conversations.

Our Courageous Conversations series will help you approach those situations in a new and thoughtful way.  Over dinner, people of different backgrounds and disparate viewpoints will gather to explore challenging topics in a safe, respectful environment.

The programs will feature a catered meal, followed by meaningful, small-group discussions around an assigned topic (e.g. “stereotypes,” “identity,” “discrimination,” “gender dynamics,” “culture”). Guests will be seated with people they don’t (yet) know, and each table will have a facilitator to help ensure respectful, open dialogue and engaged listening.

Register today! The event is free but reservations are required.

Hear from TJMHC Executive Director Lori Shepherd on her participation in the Association of Holocaust Organizations' representative trip to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

TJMHC welcomes Amy Spitalnick to continue our ongoing conversations around antisemitism as we explore the debate around antisemitism and community-building.

Individual rights and freedoms around personal relationships – including sexuality, gender identity, reproductive freedom and the human and civil rights of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgender/Questioning) community – can be controversial. They are legislated in Congress and state houses and argued about over dinner tables across the country.

 Over the centuries, Judaism has addressed these matters frankly and openly and continues to do so under the rabbinic heading of Hilkhot Ishut, Laws of Personal Status.

 Join us for an evening with Rabbi Sandy Seltzer as he discusses how Judaism deals with these issues past and present.

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

TJMHC welcomes Jacques Berlinerblau to continue our ongoing conversations around antisemitism as we explore the debate around antisemitism and younger generations' experience.

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.

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.

Join us for our final Banned Book Club of the season! We’ll discuss All the Rivers, a romance novel that has faced censorship from the Israeli educational system.

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