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A head of school returns to the classroom
It’s been exactly a month since I returned from a weeklong institute at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. I completed a course, LEV: Leadership an Evolving Vision, with 130 educators from around the world. We...
Read morePeiser named temple educator
MARBLEHEAD – Rabbi Allison Peiser has been named the new temple educator at Temple Emanu-El of Marblehead. A native of Texas, Peiser attended Temple Emanu-El in Dallas as a young child. She spent the...
Read moreA voice that lifted all
Cantor Emil Berkovits lost his voice as a young boy. He was born in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now Sturovo, Slovakia, in 1936, two years before the Nazis invaded and forced his family...
Read moreVideo shows man posting Holocaust-denial flyers
MARBLEHEAD – More than a week after two flyers denying the Holocaust were found on the grounds of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, police have posted a video on Facebook that appears to show a man...
Read moreCJP Chooses to Connect
PEABODY – “Having the power to choose is an incredible gift and responsibility,” Wendy Polins, winner of the Edith Bloch Leadership Award, told a crowd of 120 at the 2019 Choose to Connect night out,...
Read moreHolocaust denial posters discovered at Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead
MARBLEHEAD – At least two flyers denying the Holocaust were found on Monday morning on the grounds of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead. The flyers, signed by the Holocaust denial group Daily Stormer, included the...
Read moreWarren calls for end of ‘occupation’
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has publicly supported Israel over the years, appeared to have signaled a policy shift earlier this week when she told a pro-Palestinian organization that she would push the Israeli government...
Read moreWinthrop’s Jewish community survives
WINTHROP – “Where there’s water, you’ll find Jewish people,” said Sandy Pellegrino, president of Temple Tifereth Israel in Winthrop for many years. The small, seaside peninsula just north of Boston Harbor was teeming with Jewish...
Read moreTechnion promotes Boston-Israel innovation exchange
BOSTON – Eight percent of Greater Boston Jews were born in Israel, according to a 2015 study by Brandeis University. In the technology hubs of Boston, Cambridge, and the Route 128 corridor, many of...
Read moreBoxford man will become a Jewish father
BOXFORD – It’s been quite a month for Christopher Harrah. Within a few weeks, he became both a father and a Jew. “It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever done,” said Harrah, who learned on...
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