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PEABODY – “Having the power to choose is an incredible gift and responsibility,” Wendy Polins, winner of the Edith Bloch Leadership Award, told a crowd of 120 at the 2019 Choose to Connect night out,...
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MARBLEHEAD – At least two flyers denying the Holocaust were found on Monday morning on the grounds of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead. The flyers, signed by the Holocaust denial group Daily Stormer, included the...
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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has publicly supported Israel over the years, appeared to have signaled a policy shift earlier this week when she told a pro-Palestinian organization that she would push the Israeli government...
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WINTHROP – “Where there’s water, you’ll find Jewish people,” said Sandy Pellegrino, president of Temple Tifereth Israel in Winthrop for many years. The small, seaside peninsula just north of Boston Harbor was teeming with Jewish...
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BOSTON – Eight percent of Greater Boston Jews were born in Israel, according to a 2015 study by Brandeis University. In the technology hubs of Boston, Cambridge, and the Route 128 corridor, many of...
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BOXFORD – It’s been quite a month for Christopher Harrah. Within a few weeks, he became both a father and a Jew. “It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever done,” said Harrah, who learned on...
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JERUSALEM – As several NFL players looked on last week in Jerusalem, Patriots owner Robert Kraft received Israel’s Genesis Prize. The award was presented to him by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I am delighted...
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WORCESTER – “The members of this class refuse to be silent, refuse to be bystanders, and refuse to not give everything they have to the issues that are important to them,” said Isabel Block, of...
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PEABODY – Just days after a motorist yelled anti-Semitic remarks and threw pennies at two rabbis on a busy Peabody street, over 350 joined area clergy, law enforcement, and elected city and state officials to...
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Joshua Goodman has a wife, sons, a home in Oxford, a business, and “a full life.” But he’s preparing for the worst. The kidney transplanted into his body 19 years ago is now failing....
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