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As a journalist, Susan Zalkind has to ask questions. As a Jewish journalist, she feels morally compelled. “My Jewish education was about asking questions and aligning yourself with the oppressed,” says Zalkind, 35, a Newton...

MARBLEHEAD – Once again, culture vultures on the North Shore are in luck. From Oct. 12 until Nov. 29, the 28th Annual Jewish Community Center of the North Shore Jewish Book Month Speaker Series in...

As twilight descends on the long, holy day of Yom Kippur, as we surrender to the cantor’s haunting melodies and the image of the Gates of Heaven swinging shut, who amongst us has not been...

Rosh Hashanah is behind us, Yom Kippur draws near. But what lingers, along with the echoes of the Shofar and the great, portentous reckoning of the Book of Life, are a series of searing television...

DANVERS – It’s just a short stroll from Danvers Indoor Sports to the bridge over Route 114, an area that’s known to walkers and bikers as part of the Rail Trail. But Wednesday evening, Sept....

Leave it to Eric A. Kimmel, author of the classic “Hershel and the Han­ukkah Goblins,” whose scores of award-winning Jewish children’s books often feature mythical spirits – to craft a lighthearted Rosh Hashanah tale that...

All was well on the second floor of the synagogue in my early childhood. My father, praying in the men’s section, was comfortable with Orthodoxy. My mother was one of those spouses who went to...

Can it be a coincidence that as Rosh Hashanah approaches, President Joe Biden convened a Washington summit to examine the effects of hate-fueled violence on American democracy? Can it be simply by chance that less...

PEABODY – When Rabbi Eli Perlman’s congregation in New Jersey fell on hard times, his brother Rabbi Richard “Rick” Perlman was listening from his Peabody pulpit at Temple Ner Tamid of the North Shore. Now...

Since it was founded in 1977, the Jewish Journal has been covering the North Shore and Greater Boston, and as we approach the Jewish New Year, our paper continues to bring you award-winning stories that...