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Last week, Korey Cohan kept checking his school email over and over, waiting to hear the final verdict from Bentley University. “It was like waiting for a snow day, but not in a happy way,”...

On a recent day, Rachelle Dubow had an eight-hour board meeting through the online platform, Zoom. During a 10-minute break, she ran outside to the driveway of her Swampscott home to shoot hoops with her...

BOSTON – In its three-week Boston run, thousands of local theater-goers who caught the Tony-nominated touring production of “Fiddler On the Roof” became new fans of Yehezkel Lazarov. The award-winning Israeli actor is delighting audiences...

Wendy Dubow Polins, of Swampscott, has been deeply involved in Greater Boston’s Jewish organizations for more than 20 years and has held leadership positions with the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, Our Generation Speaks,...

MARBLEHEAD – “Nobody ever doesn’t say, ‘I wish I had asked my grandparents,’ including me,” said Carol Clingan. As the research projects coordinator of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston, Clingan comes across many...

HAVERHILL – The word “Hebrew” comes from a root that means “to cross over” or to “cross boundaries.” Ever since God told Abraham to leave his home and his family for a foreign land, the...

Which is better: hamantaschen or latkes? It may sound like a simple question, but each Purim, academic luminaries the world over debate it with scholarly rigor as if they were defending their dissertation or arguing...

Stephan “Steve” Ross, who survived Auschwitz and nine other Nazi labor and death camps and who went on to found the New England Holocaust Memorial in 1995, died earlier this week. He was 88. Ross...