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Rabbi David B. Kudan is the spiritual leader of Temple Tiferet Shalom in Peabody. Kudan, whose father was a Reform rabbi, grew up in the Midwest. In 1973, he met Barbara Abrams on a high...

MARBLEHEAD – Rabbi Michael Schwartz will be exchanging the West Coast for the East as he becomes the new rabbi of Temple Sinai in Marblehead starting July 1, according to Ira Dinnes, the temple’s outgoing...

Israel and Hamas have just finished fighting yet another mini-war. This is just the latest war Hamas has fought since it took control of Gaza in 2006. Since then, the Palestinians have had two autonomous...

Inspired by a challenge from philanthropists Arthur J. Epstein and Bryna Litchman, the Jewish Journal has successfully reached its goal of raising $200,000. With the campaign reaching its mark, Epstein and Litchman plan to donate...

Rabbi Alison Adler is the spiritual leader Temple B’nai Abraham in Beverly. She has led the synagogue for the last 10 years. Rabbi Adler grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, and went...

For years, Hamas has fought a war of attrition against Israel. It has fired rockets, dispatched armed drones, arson balloons, tried to kidnap Israelis, dug a sophisticated military tunnel system under Gaza, trained tens of...

ABINGTON – On the day racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on a remote path of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station on the morning of April 27, the Anti-Defamation League of New England...

The news was a jolt for a country settled by colonists seeking religious freedom, established as a republic by founders who included religion in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights, arguably was...

SWAMPSCOTT – The Rev. Dr. Andre Bennett, pastor of youth and young adults at Zion Baptist Church in Lynn, said he was not lost when police in several tony North Shore suburbs pulled him over...

Rabbi Yossi Lipsker opened Chabad of the North Shore in 1992 in Swampscott and since then has expanded to Peabody, Lynn and Everett. Lipsker is the son of a Chabad rabbi, and grew up in...