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Three years ago, 500 ambitious cadets entered the very prestigious Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilot course. Late last month, only 39 graduated in a special ceremony on the Hatzerim Airbase in the Negev, near Be’er...

PEABODY – Not even a pandemic or a brisk, cold wind could deter Peabody from holding its annual menorah lighting at noon on Thursday, Dec. 10, in what was the first of a series of...

MARBLEHEAD – Grace Community Church, which is nestled among the town’s tightly packed downtown on Pleasant Street, has parking for four cars, not nearly enough for an outdoor Christmas Eve celebration for 100 of its...

MARBLEHEAD – The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore said on Wednesday, Dec. 9, that it had been notified of three separate lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 among various members or participants with potential exposure...

PEABODY – Chabad of Pea­body is commissioning a Torah scroll to celebrate its lucky chai 18th birthday year, what the rabbi and his wife have called the “Year of Love.” However, Torah scrolls don’t come...

MARBLEHEAD – Hanukkah may light up differently this year without the inability of temples to hold large in-person gatherings due to the pandemic. “One of the lessons of Hanukkah is that in times of darkness...

When Hanukkah begins, Jews in the U.S. military stationed across the nation and world will be able to celebrate the holiday while serving their country. The JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, based in New York, is...

MARBLEHEAD – Temple Emanu-El will be the site of free COVID-19 drive-thru testing for Marblehead residents only starting on Friday, according to a press release from Town Administrator Jason Silva and Public Health Director Andrew...

WALTHAM – Jewish Family & Children’s Services’ Family Table food pantry, which aims to end hunger by providing nutritious kosher food to those in need in the Greater Boston Jewish community, is once again seeing...

BOSTON – Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who serves as the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been tapped by President-elect Joe Biden...