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BRIGHTON – Last Thursday, Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky – the man of the hour – seemed distracted. Certainly there was plenty to distract him as he fetched a basket of yarmulkes for that afternoon’s ceremony marking...

BOSTON — It was a chance to make history. Twenty years ago this month, on a damp Mother’s Day – May 12, 2002 – about 200,000 people made their way to the northern end of...

Remembering American Jewish Casualties of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn and Freedom’s Sentinel This list of Fallen Soldiers was gathered by the National Museum of American Jewish Military History in Washington, D.C. Visit...

Newton attorney Harvey Weiner is a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a former national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA. While stationed in South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in 1969, he experienced everything from...

Age: 25 Hebrew name: Shira Hannah Job: Operations coordinator at the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture Hometown: Swampscott Currently living in: Cambridge Alma maters: Swampscott High School ’15, Marymount Manhattan College ‘19 Favorite...

Rabbi Howard Mandell is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Andover. He has been the congregation’s spiritual leader for nine years. Rabbi Mandell grew up in Providence and became a civil rights lawyer and...

The North Shore, and Greater Boston, are blessed with dedicated, compassionate rabbis. Being a rabbi is a 24-hour job – the job never stops. And over the last two years during the pandemic, the pressures...

CAMBRIDGE — On April 29, I woke up to a flurry of messages from students, alumni, and journalists regarding a new piece published by The Crimson’s Editorial Board declaring it was “proud to finally lend...

Seventy-four years ago, this month, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence. Immediately following the declaration, surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel and despite being outnumbered, Israel was successful in its defense. Other wars followed in 1956, 1967...

Passover is well in the past, and, curiously, the holiday lingers. For some the echoes are the Chad Gadya reprise, repeatedly replaying in an irritating audial loop giving new meaning to the phrase “getting your...