Arts & Culture

Chaim Bloom is the general manager of the Boston Red Sox. He grew up in Philadelphia, went to Jewish day school and Yale. At 36, he is considered one of the brightest minds in baseball...

Age: 30 Hebrew name: I do not have one… Yet! I am working on my conversion with Rabbi Alison Adler, who is also one of my supervisors at Temple B’nai Abraham. Job: Office administrator for...

With more than 400 books to her name, fans of Jane Yolen might wonder where the acclaimed Western Massachusetts author gets ideas for her still-growing, dazzling array of new books. In the case of her...

Call Studs Terkel a kind of documentarian Dickens. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants (1912-2008) interviewed hundreds of Americans from diverse ethnic origins and financial conditions in a wide-ranging 1970 exploration of the impact of...

Here’s the story of a lovely lady named Shelby Chapper who was bringing up two boys and a girl. It’s also the story of a man named Todd Pierce who was busy with two sons...

As the summer camp season begins, organizers are pleased with how everyone is following COVID-19 protocols that in some ways are less strict than the previous year. “I would say kids and parents are really...

MARBLEHEAD – Jan Warner is as surprised as anyone that her book “Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss” has sold 45,000 copies. The book, like the rest of...

WORCESTER – Growing up just north of Chicago, Matt Levin always had a thing for baseball. “I remember walking home from shul during Sukkot or Yom Kippur and watching games through the window at a...

NEWTON – What makes a Jewish community rally together to save a woman fleeing for her life for fighting for LGBTQ rights in her native Uganda? It was almost with one voice, one outstretched hand...

When the Boston Jewish Film Festival screens the 2007 Israeli feature “The Band’s Visit” for its Summer Cinematheque on Aug. 4, it will be in-person, but with a twist. Due to ongoing COVID-19 caution, the...