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As intermarriage spreads, synagogues find ways to welcome non-Jews
SWAMPSCOTT – It’s been quite a journey. When Bob Powell joined Temple Israel – the former Swampscott synagogue that merged with Temple Bethel to become Shirat Hayam – in the early ‘90s, non-Jews were not...
Read moreWatch Peabody rally for peace, unity and inclusion
Watch more than 350 people from around the North Shore gathered in front of Peabody City Hall on June 5 to speak out against recent anti-Semitic acts. Speakers included Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman of Chabad of...
Read moreAfter anti-Semitic incident, Peabody to hold rally on June 5
In the wake of an incident last Saturday, during which two rabbis were berated and taunted with anti-Semitic slurs by a motorist in a pickup truck on Lowell Street, the city of Peabody will hold...
Read morePam DeGroot continues her mother’s mission of educating seniors
For nearly three years, 90-year-old Peabody resident and Chelsea native Natalie Kaplan teamed up with Ellen Gordon, the community relations coordinator at the former Aviv Centers for Living, to bring in a variety of...
Read moreYoung ambassadors bring Israel to the North Shore
GLOUCESTER – As Michal Sela and Sapir Uzan prepare to return to Israel in mid-June, the 19-year-olds are enjoying the same blur of fun, learning, and teaching – and laughing and singing – that has...
Read moreCarlebach moshav burns; funds launched to help families
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has mobilized to raise more than one million shekels (about $275,000) in emergency assistance for residents of moshav Mevo Modi’im, a small agricultural community west of Jerusalem near...
Read moreJewish teens help save man with swastika tattoo from drowning
BOSTON – A group of Jewish students who were out for a late night stroll saved a drowning man who had tattooed a swastika on his body, according to a Boston College police officer....
Read moreADL New England honors those who lead the fight against hate
SALEM – Students, educators, law enforcement officials, clergy, lawmakers, and community leaders join together once a year for breakfast at the Anti-Defamation League New England’s Essex County Law and Education Day. This year, Salem Police...
Read moreChelsea Jewish Lifecare celebrates 100 years
One hundred years ago, Lena Goldberg started Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home by turning a small multi-family building into a welcoming home for elders. Today that home has grown into Chelsea Jewish Healthcare, one of New...
Read moreStudents to deliver ‘Campus Climate Update’ May 30 in Peabody
College sophomores Elana Zabar and Ben Dobrusin know what it’s like to speak up for Israel and be called “racist.” On the University of New Hampshire campus, where a small Holocaust memorial was once destroyed,...
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