Rabbi forms alliance with police in the Merrimack Valley
MIDDLETON – In 2016, Middleton Police Chief James DiGianvittorio went on a trip to Israel with other Massachusetts law enforcement...
For cantors, culture shifts from listening to participating
Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody recently had the opportunity to hire a new part-time cantor, but opted instead to...
Riders cycle from Peabody to Newburyport in the Tour de Shuls
If you want to travel from Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody up to Congregation Ahavas Achim in Newburyport, you...
Temple Sinai finds the way toward inclusion and comfort
MARBLEHEAD – Last Rosh Hashanah, two men using canes tried to swing open the heavy wooden doors of Temple...
The Millennials
Eduard Raptunovich AGE: 29 HOMETOWN: Swampscott CURRENTLY LIVING IN: San Francisco ALMA MATER: Swampscott High School ‘08 JOB: Music producer,...
Jewish student becomes valedictorian at Holy Cross
WORCESTER – “The members of this class refuse to be silent, refuse to be bystanders, and refuse to not give...
Rabbis Perlman and Horowitz are Ner Tamid’s “Double A-Team”
PEABODY – When Bernie Horowitz was studying with the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute for his rabbinical ordination in 2014,...
At Holocaust sites, students are working ‘Together, Restoring Their Names’
Many visitors to Nazi death camps are flooded with powerful emotions that are difficult to process. Seven students from Boston-area...
As intermarriage spreads, synagogues find ways to welcome non-Jews
SWAMPSCOTT – It’s been quite a journey. When Bob Powell joined Temple Israel – the former Swampscott synagogue that merged...
The Millennials: Jamie Ehrlich
NAME: Jamie Ehrlich, 23 HEBREW NAME: Leah Devorah HOMETOWN: Marblehead CURRENTLY LIVING IN: Washington, D.C. ALMA MATERS: Marblehead High School ’14, University of Chicago...
