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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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.

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.

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.

A swastika spray painted in an Ahwatukee Foothills roadway on Friday may have been a thoughtless prank, but it was deeply offensive to those who know what the symbol represents.

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.

Rabbi Dean Shapiro has been named rabbi for Temple Emanuel of Tempe, bringing his background and worldly experience to the temple, the closest to Ahwatukee Foothills, which serves 550 East Valley families.

Just after sundown today at the home of Cheryl and Dereck Gardner, prayers will be read from the Haggadah, and then the couple and their two children will enjoy a traditional Passover meal just like they will sit down to an Easter feast on Sunday. Cheryl is Jewish; Dereck is Christian. The Peoria couple practice what they preach.

Just after sundown today at the home of Cheryl and Dereck Gardner, prayers will be read from the Haggadah, and then the couple and their two children will enjoy a traditional Passover meal just like they will sit down to an Easter feast on Sunday. Cheryl is Jewish; Dereck is Christian. The Peoria couple practice what they preach.

The Rev. David Van Arsdale of Faith Presbyterian Church spoke about his father Monday at a service in Sun City West honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Van Arsdale’s father was a Baptist minister in Detroit. “I remember as a young boy in our living room hearing for the first time a name that I had never heard before: Martin Luther King,” he said. “And I remember years later when I helped my father clean out his office and found some of his unpublished sermons from that time, written when he was 28 or 29” and clearly influenced by King.

When Rabbi Victor Beck moved to Ahwatukee Foothills from Brooklyn, N.Y., several years ago, he found a different kind of Jewish community - one that was largely disconnected and somewhat transient.

The incident is in the first chapter of the Christian testament known as John's gospel. It is a simple story with deep wisdom. As Jesus approaches, the itinerant preacher John the Baptist exclaims to two of his followers, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" Jesus asks them, "What are you looking for?" The two men say, "Rabbi, where are you staying?"

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Thursday, April 29