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PITTSBURGH — Tree of Life. Chabad of Poway. And now: Congregation Beth Israel. Here we go again. Once more, an attack on Jews at prayer. Once more, the serenity of the sanctuary is shattered. Once...

MEDFORD — When Michael Bloomberg and his younger sister, Marjorie, were growing up in the city in the 1950s, the Medford Public Library was the go-to place for their family. Their parents, Charlotte and William...

BOSTON — Dr. Katherine Gergen-Barnett recently had a direct experience with how challenging COVID-19 can be: She and her family were diagnosed with the coronavirus. Her job as a family physician at Boston Medical Center...

MARBLEHEAD — Rabbi David Meyer, who has led Temple Emanu-El for the last 30 years, plans to retire in June 2023. The announcement came last week at the Marblehead synagogue’s board of trustees meeting. A...

DANVERS — Last year, Danvers was in the news, but not for reasons that made its leaders and community members proud. Amid allegations of antisemitism, racism and homophobia in the Danvers High School hockey team,...

Five years ago, Katie Alexander and Sam Appleton decided to meet for a date. The couple had been introduced by a mutual friend, who was part of the Young Professionals Group that Katie had helped...

Jan. 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because it marked the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945. The horrors that took place there reflect how tenuous life...

It wasn’t March 31. Nor May 16. Not Sept. 29, either. Certainly not Nov. 9. But Jan. 6 had a horror all its own for Jews. The first four – among many others – were...

BOSTON – Although the start of a new year is traditionally a time of optimism, two local Jewish infectious disease experts anticipate a grim beginning of 2022 due to COVID-19. “It seems like it’s going...

A year ago on this day, thousands of Americans attacked the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Urged on by the former president, who told them that the election had been “stolen,” their goal was to take...