PEABODY – The goal of Chabad of Peabody’s Hebrew School of the Arts in West Peabody is to engage children with a sense of their Jewish identity, said Raizel Schusterman, director of the school and...
Read moreBOSTON – A judge has ordered 24-year-old Khaled A. Awad held without bail pending his trial in the bloody July 1 stabbing attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski. Awad, who had been living in Brighton at...
Read moreNEWTON – Instead of going on to earn a master’s degree in business after graduating from Harvard, Jake Auchincloss enlisted in the Marines and served from 2010 to 2015, including a tour of duty in...
Read moreBOSTON – When an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention debated whether to recommend a COVID-19 vaccine for children, a Boston medical expert was part of the discussion. Dr. Camille Nelson...
Read moreAaron Feuerstein, who became known as the “Mensch of Malden Mills” for continuing to pay his workers even after the textile factory he owned burned to the ground, died at 95 on Nov. 4. The...
Read moreLYNN – In “People Love Dead Jews, Reports from a Haunted Present” (Norton 2021) award-winning novelist Dara Horn takes a hard look at how non-Jews love the legacy of long-lost Jews, in museums and restored...
Read moreDANVERS – “Racist, homophobic and antisemitic graffiti” was found in a Holten Richmond Middle School student bathroom earlier this week, school and town officials told the school community in a letter on Tuesday, Nov. 9....
Read moreFor Jay Ruderman, the decision to release a letter of support for Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu was an example of his right to exercise his civil liberties as an American. “In my individual capacity,...
Read moreBOSTON – With incidences of antisemitism and other hate on the rise, a long-sought bill calling for genocide and human rights education in Bay State middle and high schools passed the state Senate on Oct....
Read moreBOSTON – Although much of the COVID-19 discussion last week concerned the meeting of a CDC advisory panel regarding booster shots, concerns remain about people who have not gotten a single dose. “Getting people vaccinated...
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