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BOSTON – Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston and Facing History and Ourselves were joined by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Kim Janey last week to officially unveil...

SALEM – After months of reports of hate graffiti and vandalism in Salem touting a white supremacist group called Patriot Front, two men were caught with fresh spray paint on their hands and clothing Saturday...

GLOUCESTER – Rabbi Steven Lewis said he feels as if he has come full circle when it comes to the reopening of Temple Ahavat Achim. Like many others in the region, the Gloucester shul has...

MARBLEHEAD – It does not appear the investigation report into the incident in which a former Marblehead police officer allegedly scratched a swastika into the paint of a fellow officer’s vehicle sometime in the summer...

WALTHAM – When the Biden administration announced June 24 it would extend the moratorium on evictions for 30 days, it was welcome news to an organization dedicated to helping Jewish families, children, and older adults...

The Duxbury High football team, which used Holocaust and Jewish phrases during plays – such as “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “yarmulke” – violated several of the school district’s policies over the last decade. That was the...

BOSTON – Gann Academy’s a capella group, ShenaniGanns, knocked it out of the park singing the national anthem on the field during Jewish Heritage Night at Fenway Park on June 8. While the group from...

MARBLEHEAD – Marblehead resident Karen Tal-Makhluf’s has started a petition on Change.org to remove the Black Lives Matter flag from the high school’s cafeteria, citing a pro-Palestinian tweet from the organization during last month’s Israeli-Hamas...

Rina Spence, a pioneer in women’s health care and the first female hospital president in the state of Massachusetts, passed away on June 10 in Cambridge. She was 72. The cause of death was cancer,...

After a wave of antisemitism hit the United States following the recent tensions between Israel and Hamas, middle school students in grades 6-8 at Epstein Hillel School in Marblehead engaged in a Zoom discussion about...