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Jan. 8, 1978 Hadassah leader Rose Halprin dies Rose Luria Halprin Rose Luria Halprin, a two-time national president of Hadassah who held numerous leadership positions in the Jewish Agency during the...

For Kate Friedman, a Thanksgiving meal with turkey and all the fixings involves 12 people around the table and an afternoon of noshing and watching football. Due to the pandemic, she will be sitting down...

BOSTON – In a trip back in time, Boston’s Vilna Shul virtual Kabbalat Shabbat service watchers looked into their Zoom screens and saw a Pilgrim greeting them from the site of the historic Plymouth landing...

DANVERS – Marcy Yellin can’t wait to take her son, Jacob, to the Liberty Tree Mall. It’s not because she wants to take him Hanukkah shopping, so much as it’s where Jacob, 35, who has...

Hebrew name: Moshe Hometown: Swampscott Currently living in: Los Angeles Alma maters: Swampscott High, 2000; McGill University, 2004; The New School, 2010 Job: Director of Communications, Jewish Family Service of LA Favorite food: Sushi Favorite...

It is no coincidence that Judy Rosenberg is sponsoring the JCCNS’ Jewish Book Month virtual speaker presentation of author Kirsten Fermaglich (“A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America”)...

In a better, more just world, Joel Levine would still be alive today. He would be spending nights making plans with his wife, Ellen, to make Aliyah to Israel. He would be relaxing after a...

When Brookline resident Joseph Greenberg went to visit his daughter and her family in Israel last January, he had no idea his two-month stay would become permanent because of the coronavirus pandemic. “In the beginning,...

SWAMPSCOTT – Those who attended Liora Ragozin’s bat mitzvah on Sept. 5 at Congregation Shirat Hayam, both in person and virtually, will probably remember it for her eloquent d’var Torah speech on the struggle between...

On a recent chilly morning, Jamie Greenstein dropped off her 3-year-old son, Aharon, at the integrated preschool at the Swampscott Middle School on Forest Avenue. Aharon, who turns 4 next month, attends school there from...