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Generation ‘Z’ – Olivia Hazlett, 23
Hebrew Name: Liba Sara Job: Mid-Atlantic Community Associate Manager, Moishe House Hometown: Marblehead Currently living in: Washington, D.C. Alma maters:...
Former White House speechwriter now singing a different tune in his Chelsea hometown
CHELSEA — A decade ago, Joe Resnek was a precocious 23-year-old with a hard-knocks Chelsea background who’d graduated Harvard and...
Hope amidst the Holocaust in Samuel Bak painting donated to Temple B’nai Abraham
BEVERLY – An arresting oil painting, “The Last Movement,” by renowned international artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, now hangs...
Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life
The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was...
Editorial: Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begins Saturday evening. Traditionally, Jews have fasted on this...
NEWS
Demonstrators rally against neo-Nazi group in Jamaica Plain
JAMAICA PLAIN – Chanting homophobic and anti-pedophile slogans, about 15 masked members of the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 demonstrated in front...
CULTURE
Women get equal time in love and war in Boston version of ‘Much Ado’
BOSTON – Could Megan Sandberg-Zakian be the perfect director to capture the light and darkness of Shakespeare’s classic, “Much Ado...
OPINION
The Dead and davening
I had a wonderful opportunity to spend time with Kid #1 when we were both visiting my parents. We took...
U.S. / WORLD
BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wanted me to check out its synagogue
(JTA) — Immediately after launching on Friday, BlenderBot 3 began drawing criticism for embracing antisemitism and election lies. But in my...
Iceland refuses to shut down site that targets Boston-area Jews
Pushing back against an “apparent lackadaisical attitude” towards the Boston Mapping Project – an anonymous website hosted by an Icelandic...
Hope amidst the Holocaust in Samuel Bak painting donated to Temple B’nai Abraham
BEVERLY – An arresting oil painting, “The Last Movement,” by renowned international artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, now hangs...
Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life
The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was...
10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should)
(JTA) — Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along...
Bucking the odds, new temple set to open in North Andover
NORTH ANDOVER – For decades, synagogues have been closing, merging, or just hanging “For Sale” signs on their buildings. A...
Long journey from childhood brings Hannah Solomon and Brett Ponn together under the chuppah
Hannah Solomon and Brett Ponn have known each since they were young students at the Jewish day school now called...
Editorial: Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begins Saturday evening. Traditionally, Jews have fasted on this...
The judge who signed the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago warrant is facing violent antisemitic threats
(JTA) — Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former President...
Trestan to leave ADL New England; will oversee ADL’S West Coast operation
After 10 years of serving as the mince-no-words executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New England office, Robert Trestan is...
Edith Wharton’s odyssey uncovered by Gloucester Stage in ‘Between the Sheets’
GLOUCESTER — Judy Braha has demonstrated a particular interest in staging plays focused on real people. Among the veteran director’s...
Letter: Russian criminal aggression should be stopped
I want to address the issues raised by Alan Stein in his July 21 letter responding my July 7 letter...
Canadian cardinal with Jewish ancestry honors Jewish-born nun and saint who was murdered at Auschwitz
ng(JTA) — A Canadian cardinal with Jewish ancestry honored a philosopher-nun murdered by the Nazis because of her own Jewish...
Journal’s Rosenberg, Matchan take top awards at national journalism recognition ceremony
The Journal’s publisher and editor Steven A. Rosenberg, and its associate editor Linda Matchan, won top awards for excellence in...
Generation Z: Josh Chmara
Age: 29 Hebrew name: Shalom Hirsch Job: Private credit investor Hometown: Marblehead Currently living in: New York City – I’m...
Letter: Graduates deserve name recognition
I just finished reading the article on the graduates from the Epstein Hillel School (“Eleven graduate from Hillel School,” Jewish...
Amy Spitalnick will go from fighting Charlottesville neo-Nazis to leading Bend the Arc
(JTA) – She led a group that won a $25 million judgment against the neo-Nazis who organized the deadly 2017...
Doctors warn COVID remains a clear and present danger
BOSTON — Although the new COVID-19 BA.5 subvariant has affected Massachusetts, local Jewish doctors are not seeing high hospitalization numbers...
Maurice Sendak’s journey from page to stage on display at Gardner Museum
“Where the Wild Things Are.” “In the Night Kitchen.” “Outside Over There.” The “Nutshell Library.” These classic illustrated children’s books...
Vermont state senator whose grandfather died in Holocaust wins congressional primary
(JTA) — A state senator who says the story of her grandfather’s murder during the Holocaust galvanizes her will be...
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision riles Jews
When Amy Cohen was growing up in Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s, her father, Rabbi Martin Silverman, was the...
Oh what a night … Nearly 200 attend Jewish Journal’s Menschions & Martinis
The community gathered last week to honor the area’s rabbis at the Jewish Journal’s Menschions & Martinis event at Congregation...
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, bullets rained down on our July 4th parade
HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. – A metronome of bullets. A child’s scream. It’s all too much. In the land of the...
Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer
(JTA) — A century ago, German philosopher Franz Rosenzweig spearheaded the revival of intellectual Jewish life in the city of...
Eleven graduate from Epstein Hillel School
MARBLEHEAD — Before an audience of family, friends, and the faculty and staff of the school, 11 eighth-grade students of...
On The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper,’ a minyan of notable Jews
This story was originally published by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to...
Editorial: Teach your children about truth and democracy
As the Jan. 6 Congressional Hearings proceed, and as Americans learn more about what led up to the insurrection at...
In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars to manage rising costs of delivering aid
(JTA) — Negotiating the bomb-scarred roads of eastern Ukraine is the easy part of Ilya Pulin’s day as he delivers...
Teens return from Y2I trip with fierce allegiance to Israel
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the Lappin Foundation’s 12-day, fully subsidized Youth to Israel Adventure resumed this summer, and the...
Generation ‘Z’ – Olivia Hazlett, 23
Hebrew Name: Liba Sara Job: Mid-Atlantic Community Associate Manager, Moishe House Hometown: Marblehead Currently living in: Washington, D.C. Alma maters:...
Former White House speechwriter now singing a different tune in his Chelsea hometown
CHELSEA — A decade ago, Joe Resnek was a precocious 23-year-old with a hard-knocks Chelsea background who’d graduated Harvard and...
Hope amidst the Holocaust in Samuel Bak painting donated to Temple B’nai Abraham
BEVERLY – An arresting oil painting, “The Last Movement,” by renowned international artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, now hangs...
Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life
The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was...
Editorial: Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begins Saturday evening. Traditionally, Jews have fasted on this...
NEWS
Demonstrators rally against neo-Nazi group in Jamaica Plain
JAMAICA PLAIN – Chanting homophobic and anti-pedophile slogans, about 15 masked members of the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 demonstrated in front...
Iceland refuses to shut down site that targets Boston-area Jews
Pushing back against an “apparent lackadaisical attitude” towards the Boston Mapping Project – an anonymous website hosted by an Icelandic...
Bucking the odds, new temple set to open in North Andover
NORTH ANDOVER – For decades, synagogues have been closing, merging, or just hanging “For Sale” signs on their buildings. A...
Trestan to leave ADL New England; will oversee ADL’S West Coast operation
After 10 years of serving as the mince-no-words executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New England office, Robert Trestan is...
Journal’s Rosenberg, Matchan take top awards at national journalism recognition ceremony
The Journal’s publisher and editor Steven A. Rosenberg, and its associate editor Linda Matchan, won top awards for excellence in...
Doctors warn COVID remains a clear and present danger
BOSTON — Although the new COVID-19 BA.5 subvariant has affected Massachusetts, local Jewish doctors are not seeing high hospitalization numbers...
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision riles Jews
When Amy Cohen was growing up in Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s, her father, Rabbi Martin Silverman, was the...
Eleven graduate from Epstein Hillel School
MARBLEHEAD — Before an audience of family, friends, and the faculty and staff of the school, 11 eighth-grade students of...
Rabbi David Kudan to lead Gloucester’s Ahavat Achim
GLOUCESTER – Rabbi David Kudan, who has led congregations in Glencove, IL, Winchester, Malden and Peabody, has been named the...
CULTURE
Women get equal time in love and war in Boston version of ‘Much Ado’
BOSTON – Could Megan Sandberg-Zakian be the perfect director to capture the light and darkness of Shakespeare’s classic, “Much Ado...
Hope amidst the Holocaust in Samuel Bak painting donated to Temple B’nai Abraham
BEVERLY – An arresting oil painting, “The Last Movement,” by renowned international artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, now hangs...
Long journey from childhood brings Hannah Solomon and Brett Ponn together under the chuppah
Hannah Solomon and Brett Ponn have known each since they were young students at the Jewish day school now called...
Edith Wharton’s odyssey uncovered by Gloucester Stage in ‘Between the Sheets’
GLOUCESTER — Judy Braha has demonstrated a particular interest in staging plays focused on real people. Among the veteran director’s...
Generation Z: Josh Chmara
Age: 29 Hebrew name: Shalom Hirsch Job: Private credit investor Hometown: Marblehead Currently living in: New York City – I’m...
Maurice Sendak’s journey from page to stage on display at Gardner Museum
“Where the Wild Things Are.” “In the Night Kitchen.” “Outside Over There.” The “Nutshell Library.” These classic illustrated children’s books...
Oh what a night … Nearly 200 attend Jewish Journal’s Menschions & Martinis
The community gathered last week to honor the area’s rabbis at the Jewish Journal’s Menschions & Martinis event at Congregation...
On The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper,’ a minyan of notable Jews
This story was originally published by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to...
OPINION
The Dead and davening
I had a wonderful opportunity to spend time with Kid #1 when we were both visiting my parents. We took...
Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life
The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was...
Editorial: Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begins Saturday evening. Traditionally, Jews have fasted on this...
Letter: Russian criminal aggression should be stopped
I want to address the issues raised by Alan Stein in his July 21 letter responding my July 7 letter...
Letter: Graduates deserve name recognition
I just finished reading the article on the graduates from the Epstein Hillel School (“Eleven graduate from Hillel School,” Jewish...
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, bullets rained down on our July 4th parade
HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. – A metronome of bullets. A child’s scream. It’s all too much. In the land of the...
Editorial: Teach your children about truth and democracy
As the Jan. 6 Congressional Hearings proceed, and as Americans learn more about what led up to the insurrection at...
UN makes a profound metamorphosis: Identifying antisemitism with racism
Over at Turtle Bay on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, a man just bit a dog. Not really. But...
U.S. / WORLD
BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wanted me to check out its synagogue
(JTA) — Immediately after launching on Friday, BlenderBot 3 began drawing criticism for embracing antisemitism and election lies. But in my...
10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should)
(JTA) — Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along...
The judge who signed the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago warrant is facing violent antisemitic threats
(JTA) — Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former President...
Canadian cardinal with Jewish ancestry honors Jewish-born nun and saint who was murdered at Auschwitz
ng(JTA) — A Canadian cardinal with Jewish ancestry honored a philosopher-nun murdered by the Nazis because of her own Jewish...
Amy Spitalnick will go from fighting Charlottesville neo-Nazis to leading Bend the Arc
(JTA) – She led a group that won a $25 million judgment against the neo-Nazis who organized the deadly 2017...
Vermont state senator whose grandfather died in Holocaust wins congressional primary
(JTA) — A state senator who says the story of her grandfather’s murder during the Holocaust galvanizes her will be...
Ilhan Omar, one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress, ekes out primary victory in Minnesota
(JTA) – One of Israel’s strongest critics in Congress narrowly survived a tough Democratic primary, as Rep. Ilhan Omar eked...
Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer
(JTA) — A century ago, German philosopher Franz Rosenzweig spearheaded the revival of intellectual Jewish life in the city of...
In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars to manage rising costs of delivering aid
(JTA) — Negotiating the bomb-scarred roads of eastern Ukraine is the easy part of Ilya Pulin’s day as he delivers...