Arts & Culture

The secret of Adar is concealed behind the “mask” of Purim. The scroll we read, Megillat Esther, is one of the closing entries in the Jewish biblical canon and interestingly, has no mention of God’s...

Sharon Rich loved her summers at Camp Tevya in Brookline, New Hampshire. She was never without her baseball glove and credits Tevya with preparing her for life. Summers with her fellow camper, Barbara Abrams, turned...

SALEM – A Beverly real estate company, Spire Investments, is making a name for itself on the North Shore with its upscale restoration of the former Knights of Columbus hall adjacent to Salem Common. The...

When he was young, Hankus Netsky, the founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, had a feeling he would be playing music someday. Growing up the grandson, nephew, and grand-nephew of professional musicians, it may have...

HEBREW NAME: Shem Yitzhak HOMETOWN: Marblehead CURRENT SCHOOL: Marblehead High, 11th grade FAVORITE JEWISH FOOD: Potato latkes FAVORITE JEWISH PERSON: Mark Cuban FAVORITE JEWISH HOLIDAY: Hanukkah FAVORITE MOVIES: The “Harry Potter” series FAVORITE SONG: “The...

Is socially distanced performance real theater? This question has been asked of virtually all stage efforts since the outbreak of COVID-19. Given the challenges of presenting split-screen and Zoom productions, a best of the year...

What does it mean to leave your home country and create a new life? What do we gain? What do we lose? How do these transformations define who we are? These are some of the...

MARBLEHEAD – Latvian-born Eugene Levin says he is not a filmmaker, but long ago his grandfather planted a memory inside of him that began to tremble and come to life the day he met Marblehead...

My beautiful cousin, Julia Forman, died from a brain aneurysm on Dec. 1 in New York City. She was just 34. She died a little over a year after she was married in one of...

In this age when news changes every second and songs are forgotten before they can be downloaded, a radio career of any length is something to be celebrated. That is why it is so fitting...