BOSTON — It was a chance to make history. Twenty years ago this month, on a damp Mother’s Day – May 12, 2002 – about 200,000 people made their way to the northern end of Boston to walk for the first time across the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial...
Remembering American Jewish Casualties of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn and Freedom’s Sentinel This list of Fallen Soldiers was gathered by the National Museum of American Jewish Military History in Washington, D.C. Visit nmajmh.org/fallen-heroes/ to read more or download a PDF.
Newton attorney Harvey Weiner is a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a former national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. While stationed in South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in 1969, he experienced everything from night ambushes and rocket attacks to small raids and sniper fire. He was involved in...
Age: 25 Hebrew name: Shira Hannah Job: Operations coordinator at the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture Hometown: Swampscott Currently living in: Cambridge Alma maters: Swampscott High School ’15, Marymount Manhattan College ‘19 Favorite foods: Mandu, momos, knishes, gyoza … anything in the dumpling family! Favorite movies: “Cinema Paradiso,”...
Rabbi Howard Mandell is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Andover. He has been the congregation’s spiritual leader for nine years. Rabbi Mandell grew up in Providence and became a civil rights lawyer and was the first attorney hired at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama. After a...
The North Shore, and Greater Boston, are blessed with dedicated, compassionate rabbis. Being a rabbi is a 24-hour job – the job never stops. And over the last two years during the pandemic, the pressures of the job have been intense. During the height of COVID some rabbis were overseeing...
SWAMPSCOTT — Until her mom, who lives in New Jersey, casually mentioned the nationwide baby formula shortage to Keiko Zoll,...
What is a legacy? For Jewish thirty-something Eric Glass, a grandmother’s experience during the Holocaust constitutes a major part of...
As Orthodox rabbis, we are devastated by the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade....
(JTA) — A Pew Research Center survey released Thursday found that American adults are just not paying attention to the...
MARBLEHEAD — On Sunday, June 12, Temple Sinai will sponsor a free “Festival on the Hill” for North Shore residents...
BOSTON (JTA) — Many visitors to the newly-opened Philip Guston (born Goldstein) exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston...
I felt like the angel of death last year at Mount Meron when the annual Lag B’Omer festival turned into...
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray-painted the words “free Palestine” on the facade of an Israeli-owned cafe in London. The incident,...
Last year, Rich Sokolow of Middleton endured the unimaginable tragedy of losing his wife, Michelle R. Harris. On May 15,...
As the saying goes, “Laughter is the best medicine,” and residents at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Orchard Cove senior living community recently...
The North Shore, and Greater Boston, are blessed with dedicated, compassionate rabbis. Being a rabbi is a 24-hour job –...
(JTA) — More than half of bankruptcies in the United States are connected to medical debt. For some families in...
Neil Abbott Cooper was born July 19, 1936. He was raised and grew up in Malden. He was class president...
Good things come to those who wait, according to an old saying, and that certainly was the case for the...
The Saturday morning after Passover began, I woke up to photos, sent to me by other students, of an art...
(JTA) — Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Germany this month as both the country’s interior ministry and a...
CAMBRIDGE — On the surface, the Harvard school newspaper editorial board’s recent endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement,...
Cantor Seth Landau is the spiritual leader of Congregation Sons of Israel in Peabody. He grew up in Framingham, and...
CAMBRIDGE — On April 29, I woke up to a flurry of messages from students, alumni, and journalists regarding a...
(JTA) — Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky brought up the Holocaust to snap back at former Jewish U.S. Secretary of...
BOSTON — The legal case surrounding one of the most brutal antisemitic attacks in recent Boston history is plodding along...
Bernie Horowitz is the associate rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody. He grew up in Everett and Malden, went...
Our Jewish community lost a great leader. I was heartbroken to get the call from Deanna Cooper that her beloved...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden has reportedly made final his decision not to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps...
BOSTON – With COVID-19 cases once again cause for concern in Massachusetts, Jewish doctors in the Greater Boston area are...
A first-rate jukebox musical must have a strong story and the Broadway hit "Ain't too proud: The Life and Times...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed at least 19 children and two adults on...
SWAMPSCOTT — Although formal Hebrew School technically ends after grade 7 and a bar or bat mitzvah at Congregation Shirat...
My mother, though I hope not yours, was a terrible baker. Maybe it was the absence of joy in her...
Seventy-four years ago, this month, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence. Immediately following the declaration, surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel and...
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear two different requests to take up a...
BRIGHTON – Last Thursday, Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky – the man of the hour – seemed distracted. Certainly there was plenty...
BOSTON — It was a chance to make history. Twenty years ago this month, on a damp Mother’s Day –...
Remembering American Jewish Casualties of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn and Freedom’s Sentinel This list of Fallen Soldiers...
Newton attorney Harvey Weiner is a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a former national commander of the Jewish War Veterans...
Age: 25 Hebrew name: Shira Hannah Job: Operations coordinator at the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture Hometown: Swampscott...
Rabbi Howard Mandell is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Andover. He has been the congregation’s spiritual leader for...
SWAMPSCOTT — Until her mom, who lives in New Jersey, casually mentioned the nationwide baby formula shortage to Keiko Zoll,...
MARBLEHEAD — On Sunday, June 12, Temple Sinai will sponsor a free “Festival on the Hill” for North Shore residents...
Last year, Rich Sokolow of Middleton endured the unimaginable tragedy of losing his wife, Michelle R. Harris. On May 15,...
Neil Abbott Cooper was born July 19, 1936. He was raised and grew up in Malden. He was class president...
CAMBRIDGE — On the surface, the Harvard school newspaper editorial board’s recent endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement,...
BOSTON — The legal case surrounding one of the most brutal antisemitic attacks in recent Boston history is plodding along...
BOSTON – With COVID-19 cases once again cause for concern in Massachusetts, Jewish doctors in the Greater Boston area are...
SWAMPSCOTT — Although formal Hebrew School technically ends after grade 7 and a bar or bat mitzvah at Congregation Shirat...
When husband-and-wife mathematicians Vladislav Shapiro and Nataliya Proskura wanted to commission and donate a portrait to Brandeis University, they swiftly...
What is a legacy? For Jewish thirty-something Eric Glass, a grandmother’s experience during the Holocaust constitutes a major part of...
BOSTON (JTA) — Many visitors to the newly-opened Philip Guston (born Goldstein) exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston...
As the saying goes, “Laughter is the best medicine,” and residents at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Orchard Cove senior living community recently...
Good things come to those who wait, according to an old saying, and that certainly was the case for the...
Cantor Seth Landau is the spiritual leader of Congregation Sons of Israel in Peabody. He grew up in Framingham, and...
Bernie Horowitz is the associate rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody. He grew up in Everett and Malden, went...
A first-rate jukebox musical must have a strong story and the Broadway hit "Ain't too proud: The Life and Times...
My mother, though I hope not yours, was a terrible baker. Maybe it was the absence of joy in her...
As Orthodox rabbis, we are devastated by the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade....
I felt like the angel of death last year at Mount Meron when the annual Lag B’Omer festival turned into...
The North Shore, and Greater Boston, are blessed with dedicated, compassionate rabbis. Being a rabbi is a 24-hour job –...
The Saturday morning after Passover began, I woke up to photos, sent to me by other students, of an art...
CAMBRIDGE — On April 29, I woke up to a flurry of messages from students, alumni, and journalists regarding a...
Our Jewish community lost a great leader. I was heartbroken to get the call from Deanna Cooper that her beloved...
Seventy-four years ago, this month, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence. Immediately following the declaration, surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel and...
Passover is well in the past, and, curiously, the holiday lingers. For some the echoes are the Chad Gadya reprise,...
(JTA) — A Pew Research Center survey released Thursday found that American adults are just not paying attention to the...
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray-painted the words “free Palestine” on the facade of an Israeli-owned cafe in London. The incident,...
(JTA) — More than half of bankruptcies in the United States are connected to medical debt. For some families in...
(JTA) — Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Germany this month as both the country’s interior ministry and a...
(JTA) — Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky brought up the Holocaust to snap back at former Jewish U.S. Secretary of...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden has reportedly made final his decision not to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps...
(JTA) — “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” has made headlines as one of the Israeli TV industry’s most elaborate and...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed at least 19 children and two adults on...
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear two different requests to take up a...
