Looking Back Over 100 Years

On September 5, Hyman Ainbinder will become a centenarian. The former kosher butcher from Peabody with a sweet singing voice will mark the milestone with his wife, Freida, 98, at their home in the Simon C. Fireman Community assisted living facility in Randolph. The couple will also mark their 71st wedding anniversary this year.. .. ..more

Documentary Exposes Phenomenon of Israeli Soldiers “Flipping Out”

For some time now, Israelis on the left have claimed that the military’s ongoing presence in the occupied territories exacts a social and moral cost. Based on the sobering documentary “Flipping Out,” you might factor in a psychological toll, too. .......more

Pomegranates for Rosh Hashanah

In the sensual poetry of Song of Songs, we read: “I went down into the garden of nuts…to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower” (Song of Songs 6:11). In another passage, the poet writes “I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate” (Song of Songs 8:2). Song of Songs has four additional mentions of pomegranates, and there are also references in Joel, Haggai and I Kings.........more

North Shore Profile: Stanley Forman
What a Man with a Lens, Skill and Passion Can Do

Stanley Forman won his second Pulitzer Prize for this photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 on Boston’s City Hall Plaza depicting black lawyer Ted Landsmark being assaulted by a man wielding a flagpole as a weapon.

Bette Keva
Jewish Journal Staff

BEVERLY — While the world’s attention has been on the Demo-cratic and Republican National Conventions, those who grew up during the Civil Rights era remember a time when the advent of a black nominee for President of the United States would have been unthinkable. For 30-year-old Stanley Forman, who was to take the seminal 1976 photograph that many would say captured the essence of that tumultuous period, seeing Barack Obama on stage at the Democratic Convention last month accepting his party’s nomination was beyond Forman’s, and most people’s, wildest imagination.. Read more…

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