People

Volunteers worked on Christmas Day to deliver 300 meals with cheerful cards to Melrose, Stoneham, Wakefield, Malden and Saugus residents. Temple Beth Shalom of Melrose, Melrose Council on Aging and Early Harvest Diner of Wakefield...

It was a trip to Israel in 2019 that inspired North Shore resident Marcia Widmer to join Jewish National Fund-USA’s local board and expand her philanthropic impact. “So many of us know JNF-USA as the...

North Shore philanthropists Julie Rainer Cummings of Swampscott and Steven Rosenthal of Marblehead have donated a combined $55,000 to Danvers-based Northeast Arc, allowing the agency to provide year-end recognition to hundreds of Direct Support Professionals...

PEABODY – Ruth Shoer Rappaport, a Jewish woman from Peabody who went on to become a groundbreaking vaccine researcher, has left more than $1 million to Peabody Veterans Memorial High, from which she graduated in...

CHELSEA – Bernice Berman cannot believe she turned 100 on Nov. 7. The much beloved resident at Cohen Florence Levine Estates celebrated her milestone birthday with visits from her daughter Janice Cohen, son-in-law Larry Cohen,...

SALEM – The Board of Overseers of the Jewish Journal, the nonprofit newspaper that informs the Jewish community on the North Shore and beyond, welcomed a new president and thanked its outgoing one at its...

The Religious Zionists of America (RZA), the U.S.-based branch of World Mizrachi and umbrella organization for the American Religious Zionist movement, has named Rabbi Ari Rockoff, as its vice president. Rabbi...

Rabbi Michael Ragozin of Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott was named a 2020-2021 LEAP Fellow, a partnership of the University of Pennsylvania and Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.   [caption id="attachment_17363" align="alignleft"...

MARBLEHEAD – The infuriating moment when retired psychology professor Sheldon Brown knew he had to bring Holocaust education to North Shore Community College came at an unlikely time, during a faculty meeting on whether educators...

From a very early age, Dorothy Brenner Appel knew she wanted to be an artist. To that end, she succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. Dorothy, now age 97 and a resident of German Centre for...