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JAMAICA PLAIN – Chanting homophobic and anti-pedophile slogans, about 15 masked members of the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 demonstrated in front of an historic mansion here late last month, carrying a banner that read “Pedo Scum...

Pushing back against an “apparent lackadaisical attitude” towards the Boston Mapping Project – an anonymous website hosted by an Icelandic company targeting Boston-area Jews and organizations – the Anti-Defamation League has forcefully called on the...

NORTH ANDOVER – For decades, synagogues have been closing, merging, or just hanging “For Sale” signs on their buildings. A confluence of changes in American Jewish life – such as a high level of intermarriage...

After 10 years of serving as the mince-no-words executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New England office, Robert Trestan is moving on – and up. He’s not going very far, though. He’ll continue to work...

The Journal’s publisher and editor Steven A. Rosenberg, and its associate editor Linda Matchan, won top awards for excellence in journalism at last week’s American Jewish Press Association’s Simon Rockower award ceremony. The awards are...

BOSTON — Although the new COVID-19 BA.5 subvariant has affected Massachusetts, local Jewish doctors are not seeing high hospitalization numbers in the area at this point. “We have a very high rate of BA.5 in...

When Amy Cohen was growing up in Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s, her father, Rabbi Martin Silverman, was the rabbi of Temple Mizpah. He told her a secret about the ark in the sanctuary...

MARBLEHEAD — Before an audience of family, friends, and the faculty and staff of the school, 11 eighth-grade students of Epstein Hillel School’s graduating class of 2022 joyfully received their diplomas on the evening of...

GLOUCESTER – Rabbi David Kudan, who has led congregations in Glencove, IL, Winchester, Malden and Peabody, has been named the new interim spiritual leader of Temple Ahavat Achim in Gloucester. “It’s exciting to be embarking...

ANDOVER — A new, unaffiliated congregation that will focus on community and music will open this summer in the Merrimack Valley. The new temple will be called Congregation Ahavat Olam, which in Hebrew translates to...