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Sandwiched between a Domino’s pizza and the Gourmet Garden Chinese/Japanese restaurant in Swampscott’s Vinnin Square, one can find a kosher dessert option if you prefer marijuana-infused edibles. Terpene Journey, the town’s first recreational cannabis store,...

BOSTON — As the Omicron variant continues to wreak havoc on all organizations – particularly those servicing vulnerable populations and children – COVID rapid testing for staff and educators has emerged as a critical resource...

In the photograph, Jack King’s smile is that of a golfer triumphant. He’s on the 12th green of Kernwood Country Club, after his first and only hole-in-one. His is a radiant smile, of someone who...

It was evident that organizers had no idea how many people felt they just had to be at a particular park in the Israeli city of Ra’anana last month for the dedication of a baseball...

When Tufts University researcher Michael Levin started working with frog skin cells, it took him in unexpected directions. Terming his creations “xenobots,” he describes them as simultaneously animal, machine, and robot. Recently, his understanding of...

When historian Charles R. Gallagher learned that a Boston-based leader of a right-wing Christian group secretly met with a Nazi intelligence official to plot against the United States joining the Allied forces in World War...

“Earth Emergency,” a documentary by Massachusetts filmmakers about saving the planet, hasn’t been screened yet in the United States. It premieres nationwide on PBS stations on Dec. 29. But it’s already made a global impact....

SWAMPSCOTT – What do you do when you’ve spent much of your life volunteering and giving to your own community, and then suddenly find yourself in need? For decades, Ben Yellin and his wife Marcy...

NEWTON — The vision of a dynamic new interdisciplinary hub of Jewish learning and life on the campus of Temple Reyim in Auburndale moved one step closer to a reality on Dec. 5. Hebrew College,...

BOSTON – Boston Jewish organizational leaders and elected officials from across the state gathered to light the menorah at the New England Holocaust Memorial Monday evening. On a cold second night of Hanukkah, many of...