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Arizona Sonoran News

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Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Rivera-Ashford looks at old newspapers which features articles written about her father. Photo taken by Zachary Pleeter/The Tombstone Epitaph.

A history of Jewish life in Arizona: Struggles and triumph in the desert

Zach Pleeter September 30, 2015

Robin Capin Rivera-Ashford knows how hard it was to grow up Jewish in the Grand Canyon State.“In my generation, I may have been the only one who had a bat mitzvah,” says Rivera-Ashford.She grew up...

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