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BOSTON – Entering the third fall season of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jewish doctors in the Boston area stress the importance of preparation. Dr. Jon Levy, the chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the...

When a freak bicycle accident left Swampscott’s Ben Yellin a quadriplegic in the summer of 2021, his family’s life was turned upside down and confusion and fear greeted the sun each morning. A year later,...

In a first for Jewish student life on campus, Harvard Chabad announced the establishment of the Harvard Chabad Endowment for Jewish Leadership, with a $5 million gift by Jackie and Omri Dahan. The gift will...

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has published its final demographic figures ahead of the upcoming Jewish new year. According to the report, Israel currently has 9.6 million residents, with that number expected to...

When Vladimir Foygelman was growing up in Soviet-ruled Kyiv, he recalled an atmosphere of limited opportunities for Jews like himself to express themselves culturally. That changed in the years after Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary...

SAUGUS – Just days after a white supremacist group hung antisemitic and racist banners at highway overpasses in Saugus and Danvers, a group of 125 attended a rousing rally last Wednesday on the steps of...

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...