Danvers Holocaust Symposium asks ‘What does the Holocaust have to do with me?’
DANVERS — Last year, Danvers was in the news, but not for reasons that made its leaders and community members...
Beverly filmmakers document Alabama vaccination campaign; will screen at Sundance festival
It was spring 2021, the second year of the pandemic, and filmmakers Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine were depressed....
Samuel Bak, who paints the past so we will never forget it, to be on display in Beverly
BEVERLY – Samuel Bak, the renowned international artist, speaks in a language of images, dreamscapes, and colors. A child prodigy...
Shirat Hayam intern investigates where spiritual practice and mindfulness converge
SWAMPSCOTT – Rabbi Michael Ragozin was thrilled when Benjamin “Beni” Summers indicated an interest in joining Congregation Shirat Hayam as...
Greater Boston Stage’s ‘All is Calm’ strikes the perfect chord
From the first note of the first song in the remarkably affecting “All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914,”...
Eight lamps paired with eight women guests to dazzle at annual JArts Hanukkah show
BOSTON – Since 2015, the Jewish Arts Collaborative has brought the Greater Boston community together to celebrate Hanukkah at the...
Documentary theater asks: ‘Where do unwanted people go?’
When Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre, was researching “The Merchant of Venice,” he was...
‘Free as a Jew’ author to discuss her memoir Nov. 7
Ruth Roskies Wisse is no shrinking violet. Born in Czernowitz, Romania, in 1936, she and her family escaped to Montreal...
Boston radio host Jordan Rich kicks off Jewish Book Month Speaker Series
Although the roles may have shifted from news to drive-time music to podcaster and talk show host, Jordan Rich’s impressive...
College students immerse themselves in Israeli culture
Despite anxiety over civil and political unrest – and the ever-present threat of COVID-19 – three college students from Swampscott’s...
