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The pandemic has hit college students hard over the last couple of years, impeding learning, disrupting athletics, and isolating them from the friends and communities they love. Jewish life on campus faced the same fate....

MARBLEHEAD – Public Jew-hatred was on display last weekend in northeastern Mass­achusetts, from Marblehead’s pastoral Hamond Nature Center – where swastikas, and antisemitic and racial slurs were spray-painted – to highway overpasses in Saugus and...

MARBLEHEAD – Ep­­stein Hillel School has hired Lori Kreevoy as the director of Development & Community Engage­ment. In this role, Lori will provide leadership, vision, and strategy through community outreach and fundraising. She will also...

BOSTON – Louis J. Woolf, president and CEO of Harvard Medical School-affiliate Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL), an integrated system of health care, senior living, research, and teaching that serves more than 3,000 Greater Boston seniors each...

Martin Baron, a renowned journalist who has overseen coverage and investigations leading to 18 Pulitzer Prizes, has been named the 2023 Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life by Brandeis University. Baron led the Washington Post’s...

MARBLEHEAD – In the spring when local reporters’ bylines disappeared from the pages of the Marblehead Reporter and the newspaper’s “Wicked Local” moniker became a sprinkling of news from Brockton, Cape Cod, Chelmsford, and elsewhere,...

CHELSEA – For the first time since 2019, the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and MS (multiple sclerosis) Walk for Living will be held in person on Sunday, Sept. 18 on Admiral’s Hill in Chelsea at...

NEWTON – Unable to outlast the pandemic and struggling to keep up enrollment, the Sunday School for Jewish Studies closed this summer after 76 years of serving unaffiliated and interfaith families in the Greater Boston...

BOSTON – The Miriam Fund and Combined Jewish Phil­anthropies celebrated Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 26 by announcing over $400,000 in grants to 19 organizations. The Miriam Fund (TMF) is a unique collaborative venture with...

BRIGHTON – Rabbi Giulia Fleishman has been appointed inaugural director of spiritual care at 2Life Communities. Rabbi Fleishman, who recently completed her rabbinical studies at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton, will serve...