Natick filmmakers’ documentary about war to premiere April 17
Natick filmmakers Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey spent seven years working on their new documentary feature, “The Wake Up Call”...
Steadfast and resilient: Former North Shore woman stands her ground in Kyiv
In 1988, within days of moving to Lynn from Kyiv, Helen Chervitz found a typewriter in a garbage can. So...
How the story of my gefilte fish is an Exodus story
On several occasions, my family has attended Seders at the home of our friends, Amy and Paul. One year we...
New JCC of Greater Boston leader will take creative approach
NEWTON – The path that Lily Rabinoff-Goldman has followed from a teaching career to a major new gig as president...
A family stays stitched together at another joyful seder in Lynn
LYNN – The large Zimman clan, after two wistful years of holding pandemic seders via Zoom, will finally gather in...
Erin go bragh: Jewish-Irish vet who leads St. Patrick’s Day Parade denounces neo-Nazi presence
The day of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston is always frantic for David Falvey, the parade’s Jewish...
Far from Ukraine, a sense of immense loss
LYNN – No one knows where Anton is. “He is not calling or communicating,” said Sergey Koren, Anton’s uncle, who...
Film will reveal the untold story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
Paula Apsell estimates she worked on 700 films over her 40 years at WGBH’s iconic science documentary series, NOVA, before...
Smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto in a sack, she now makes beautiful music
Violinist Dana Mazurkevich – a professor of music at Boston University – was born in a basement in October 1941,...
What a Jewish editor can learn answering letters to Santa
Here’s what they don’t tell you about being Santa Claus: it can be heart-wrenching.
