Pride of the WooSox
WORCESTER – Growing up just north of Chicago, Matt Levin always had a thing for baseball. “I remember walking home...
Local author Michael Levin turns playwright in telling his mother’s Holocaust tale
ARLINGTON – COVID has had many of us crying for our mothers and have also had many moms crying for...
Swampscott family rolls with revisions for son’s bar mitzvah during COVID
As anyone who has participated in one knows, a bar or bat mitzvah is a magical day filled with family,...
JArts pays tribute to ‘Hallelujah’ composer Leonard Cohen with May 25 online event
Though he passed five years ago, Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen continues to have a profound impact on the music world. A...
Youth movement expanding at Brookline’s Congregation Kehillath Israel
BROOKLINE – For over 100 years, Congregation Kehillath Israel has been the gathering place for a Jewish community that combines...
Celebrating 40 years of klezmer that blossomed at the New England Conservatory
When he was young, Hankus Netsky, the founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, had a feeling he would be playing...
Radio personality Jordan Rich continues to air tikkun olam
In this age when news changes every second and songs are forgotten before they can be downloaded, a radio career...
A Haggadah with action and adventure you won’t put down
Each year at Passover, we are reminded that even though the original story is generations old, we are supposed to...
Not your bubbe’s gefilte fish: Gefilteria gives Old World food a contemporary update
A new diet fad has struck: Many are trying to find ways back to the foods of their childhoods and...
Trimmed-down Music
Long known for his long dreadlocks and immense backing bands, Israeli composer/producer/keyboardist/musical ambassador Idan Raichel has cut back a bit...
