Arts & Culture

What is a legacy? For Jewish thirty-something Eric Glass, a grandmother’s experience during the Holocaust constitutes a major part of that birthright. In Matthew Lopez’s masterful 2018 drama “The Inheritance,” activist Glass – whom the...

BOSTON (JTA) — Many visitors to the newly-opened Philip Guston (born Goldstein) exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will not go in knowing how his Jewish experience influenced his work: from his roots...

As the saying goes, “Laughter is the best medicine,” and residents at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Orchard Cove senior living community recently received a healthy dose. Close to 40 residents of the continuing care retirement community in...

Good things come to those who wait, according to an old saying, and that certainly was the case for the Swartz family of Swampscott. Last spring, with COVID levels running high in the state, Allison...

Cantor Seth Landau is the spiritual leader of Congregation Sons of Israel in Peabody. He grew up in Framingham, and holds a degree in business administration from UMass Amherst, and a master’s in business administration...

Bernie Horowitz is the associate rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody. He grew up in Everett and Malden, went to Northeastern, and formerly owned a kosher meat market in Malden before leading Peabody’s health...

A first-rate jukebox musical must have a strong story and the Broadway hit "Ain't too proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" does. Based by Detroit playwright Dominique Morisseau on "The Temptations" by member...

My mother, though I hope not yours, was a terrible baker. Maybe it was the absence of joy in her life that caused everything to taste like margarine, especially at Passover. We held our Seders...

“My mom is the strongest – she has a metal leg!” That’s exactly what I want to hear from my son, Ben, when he’s 4. Only when he says it, my prayer – or hope...

There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen KYIV — While walking the uninhabited streets of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, now in the midst of...