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MARBLEHEAD – On May 1, the bridge on Village Street was vandalized with graffiti that read: “Jews out of Marblehead.” That same weekend, police responded to more racist and antisemitic tagging at Crocker Park and...

FRAMINGHAM – Rabbi Allison Poirier of Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham said the support for the Conservative congregation through hundreds of texts and emails has been “overwhelming” after the troubling discovery on a temple sign...

MARBLEHEAD – In July, Dennis A. King Jr., the town’s new police chief and former acting chief in neighboring Salem, took over the Marblehead Police Department from former longtime chief Robert Picariello. Not long after...

Despite anxiety over civil and political unrest – and the ever-present threat of COVID-19 – three college students from Swampscott’s Congregation Shirat Hayam headed to Israel for summer internships. They returned in agreement on three...

Early in 2019, staff and faculty from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University met to discuss plans for the center’s signature program, the Yom HaShoah commemoration. Time was of the...

Age: 30 Hebrew name: I do not have one… Yet! I am working on my conversion with Rabbi Alison Adler, who is also one of my supervisors at Temple B’nai Abraham. Job: Office administrator for...

Happy New Year. In years to come, we will look back on the last 19 months as a time when COVID-19 upended our world. The coronavirus has impacted our entire country, and it shows no...

MARBLEHEAD – Gann Academy’s spring graduating class contained just one senior from Marblehead. However, Gann’s incoming freshman class will contain a contingent of five North Shore students who will be making the trek to Waltham...

It has been a spring and summer of extremes for Israelis and American Jews. It began in early May with a war that few Israelis and American Jews expected, when Hamas fired thousands of rockets...

BOSTON – In a more just world, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski would have been overseeing the 100 kids at Shaloh House’s Jewish day camp last Friday. Instead, he was changing the bandages and wiping blood on...